Marieke McCloskey
Marieke McCloskey — Director of UX Research. Talks and sessions delivered at UXDX.
Director of UX Research
Marieke’s passion is informing the product strategy and delivering customer value by helping ensure a deep understanding of the users. Formerly of Nielsen Norman Group, UserTesting, and Humu, she’s currently Director of UX Research for LinkedIn’s Talent Solutions.
Past talks
2 talks · 1 eventProduct versus UX
A recent survey highlighted that Product and UX people see themselves as being responsible for a lot of the same things: discovery, user interviews and testing. What are the roles of UX and PM? How do people manage the relationship? Do we need both roles? Join us to discuss how PM and UX can work well together and how each company is addressing this overlap.
Organizational Design at LinkedIn
LinkedIn has both centralized and embedded research teams, but it wasn’t always that way. Over the last 10 years, the team grew from 2 to 50 researchers. With that growth, LinkedIn UXR used organizational design to respond to strategic needs of both the Product & Engineering org and the UXR team, at several different inflection points. Today, Kassie leads a centralized, horizontal UXR Practice team and Marieke joined last year and leads an embedded research team on one of LinkedIn’s business units. Marieke and Kassie will share their perspectives on why LinkedIn UXR chose a hybrid embedded and centralized org design, what’s working and not, what impact looks like in each, and how they see the structure of the organization evolving over time.
