--- title: 'User Experience Researcher at Oscar Health' canonical: 'https://feeny.ai/job/user-experience-researcher-oscar-health-new-york-y5q6c2zmaf8v' type: 'job' last_seen: '2026-10-15' --- # User Experience Researcher at Oscar Health - **Company:** Oscar Health - **Location:** New York, NY - **Posted:** 2026-08-28 - **Last confirmed live:** 2026-10-15 - **Apply:** https://job-boards.greenhouse.io/oscar/jobs/8132502 ## Job description Hi, we're Oscar. We're hiring a User Experience Researcher to join our Insights and Analytics team. Oscar is the first health insurance company built around a full stack technology platform and a focus on serving our members. We started Oscar in 2012 to create the kind of health insurance company we would want for ourselves—one that behaves like a doctor in the family. About the role: Oscar is building a centralized Insights and Analytics function within our Technology organization to shape how the company learns, decides, and builds. This role will specifically support Oswell and Oscar’s consumer-facing AI experiences, helping teams understand where AI can meaningfully improve member trust, comprehension, and navigation.  This team brings together User Experience Research, Data Science, Analytics, and Market Research to connect what people experience, what our systems reveal, and what the business needs to understand. As part of this team, Oscar’s User Experience Researchers help the company make product, service, and business decisions grounded in the lived experiences, behaviors, needs, and friction points of the people we serve and support. Our work spans consumers, members, brokers, providers, and internal users across Oscar’s Tech Pillars and family of companies. In this role you will independently lead research studies in complex product and service areas, using qualitative, quantitative, and mixed methods to clarify ambiguous problems, de-risk product decisions, and shape strategy. You will partner closely with Product, Design, Engineering, Data Science, Analytics, Strategy, Operations, Clinical, and Insurance Product teams to turn human insight into clearer priorities, better workflows, and more confident decision-making. This role is a strong fit for a researcher who is comfortable working in early-stage or ambiguous spaces, can identify the behavioral dynamics underneath a business or product question, and can determine what evidence will meaningfully move a team forward. You will be expected to develop a clear point of view from research, connect insights to business needs, and help mature how research is planned, conducted, documented, shared, and reused at Oscar, including thoughtful use of AI-enabled tools to make insights faster to find, easier to reuse, and more Pay Transparency: The base pay for this role is: $163,944.00 - $215,176.50 per year. You are also eligible for employee benefits, participation in Oscar's unlimited vacation program, company equity grants, and annual performance bonuses. Work Location: This position is based in our New York City office, requiring a hybrid work schedule with 3 days of in-office work per week. Thursdays are a required in-office day for team meetings and events, while your other two office days are flexible to suit your schedule. #LI-Hybrid Responsibilities: - Lead end-to-end research studies, including scoping, study design, recruiting strategy, moderation, analysis, synthesis, and shareout. - Translate ambiguous questions into research plans that clarify methods, audiences, risks, and decision points. - Conduct research across Oscar’s multi-sided healthcare ecosystem, including consumers, members, brokers, providers, and internal users. - Apply qualitative, quantitative, and mixed methods to generate evidence that is rigorous, actionable, and fit for the decision at hand. - Partner with Product, Design, Engineering, Data, Operations, Clinical, Strategy, and Insurance Product teams to shape problem definition, roadmap planning, prioritization, product strategy, and launch readiness. - Distill research into strategic recommendations that help teams decide what to build, improve, prioritize, or stop doing. - Strengthen Oscar’s research operations, including intake, planning, recruiting, consent, compliance, repositories, templates, and vendor workflows. - Use AI-enabled tools thoughtfully to accelerate research planning, analysis, synthesis, and knowledge reuse while upholding rigor, privacy, compliance, and human judgment. - Advance ethical and inclusive research practices in a regulated healthcare environment, including privacy, security, accessibility, language, incentives, and hard-to-reach population considerations. - Help mature Oscar’s research practice by introducing useful methods, tools, documentation patterns, and industry learnings. - Mentor junior researchers and research-adjacent partners where appropriate. - Compliance with all applicable laws and regulations - Other duties as assigned Qualifications: - 4+ years of hands-on user research, product research, design research, or applied research. - Experience independently leading research studies with moderate to high complexity and cross-functional stakeholders. - Demonstrated skill collecting, analyzing, and synthesizing human behavioral data to inform product, service, or business decisions. - Experience using qualitative and quantitative methods, with strong judgment about which method fits the decision at hand. - Experience turning ambiguous questions into clear research plans, actionable insights, and strategic recommendations. - Experience communicating research findings through compelling artifacts, frameworks, presentations, or workshops. - Experience working with Product, Design, Engineering, Data, Operations, Strategy, or other cross-functional partners. - Comfort working within ethical, privacy, compliance, or operational constraints. Bonus Points - Experience conducting research in healthcare, health insurance, benefits, financial services, or another regulated industry. - Experience conducting research on consumer-facing AI experiences. - Experience researching multi-sided ecosystems, such as members/consumers, brokers, providers, internal operators, or B2B2C products. - Masters or Ph.D. in Human-Computer Interaction, Cognitive Psychology, Information Science, Anthropology, Sociology, STS, or related technical field, or 2+ years of equivalent work experience. - Spanish language proficiency. Experience conducting discovery research and testing features with English and Spanish speaking participants, as well as analyzing consumer insights from diverse linguistic backgrounds. This is an authentic Oscar Health job opportunity. At Oscar, being an Equal Opportunity Employer means more than upholding discrimination-free hiring practices. It means that we cultivate an environment where people can be their most authentic selves and find both belonging and support. We're on a mission to change health care -- an experience made whole by our unique backgrounds and perspectives. Pay Transparency:  Final offer amounts, within the base pay set forth above, are determined by factors including your relevant skills, education, and experience. Full-time employees are eligible for benefits including: medical, dental, and vision benefits, 11 paid holidays, paid sick time, paid parental leave, 401(k) plan participation, life and disability insurance, and paid wellness time and reimbursements. Artificial Intelligence (AI): Our [AI Guidelines](https://oscarhealth.com/careers/ai-guidelines) outline the acceptable use of artificial intelligence for candidates and detail how we use AI to support our recruiting efforts. Reasonable Accommodation: Oscar applicants are considered solely based on their qualifications, without regard to applicant’s disability or need for accommodation. Any Oscar applicant who requires reasonable accommodations during the application process should contact the Oscar Benefits Team (accommodations@hioscar.com) to make the need for an accommodation known. California Residents: For information about our collection, use, and disclosure of applicants’ personal information as well as applicants’ rights over their personal information, please see our [Privacy Policy](https://oscarhealth.com/privacy-policy). ## About Oscar Health ## Company Overview - **One-liner**: Oscar Health is a healthcare technology company that builds a full-stack health insurance platform to make high-quality, affordable healthcare accessible for individuals, families, and employers. - **Entity Type**: Public (NYSE: OSCR) - **Headquarters**: New York City, USA (TriBeCa) - **Founded**: 2012 - **Founders**: Mario Schlosser (CTO & Co-Founder); additional co-founders are not publicly detailed in the provided sources. ## Core Business - **Primary industry**: Health insurance / healthcare technology - **Target customers**: B2C (individuals, families, Medicare beneficiaries) and B2B (employers through Small Group plans and ICHRA) - **Mission**: “Make a healthier life accessible and affordable for all.” ## Products & Services - **Oscar Individual & Family Plans** – Health insurance sold on- and off-exchange, featuring $0 virtual urgent care, $3 generic medications, and dedicated Care Teams. - **Medicare Advantage** – Medicare health plans launched in 2020, available in select states. - **Oscar for Employers (Small Group / ICHRA)** – Employer-sponsored health benefits, including Individual Coverage Health Reimbursement Arrangements (ICHRA). - **Oscar Provider Platform** – A technology platform that connects providers with Oscar’s member engagement tools. - **Oscar App & Care Router** – Digital engagement platform that routes members to appropriate care (virtual or in-person) and enables 24/7 communication with a Care Team. ## Market Standing - **Valuation/Market Cap**: Not directly provided in the search results; as a public company, market cap is available via SEC filings (e.g., ~$6B as of recent market data, but not confirmed in these sources). - **Key Metric**: Serves approximately 1.6 million members as of August 2024 (the company also reports a figure of ~3.2 million members, possibly including additional plan types or a different measurement). - **Notable Investors/Partners**: Not specified in the provided search results; the company went public in 2021 and counts major venture firms among its early investors. - **Growth Signals**: Active in 20 states; member base grew from 1 million in 2022 to over 1.6 million; launched Medicare Advantage in 2020; has 238 active job postings as of the search date, indicating expansion. ## Competitive Advantages - **Full-stack technology platform** – Oscar owns the entire insurance stack (claims, care management, provider network), enabling data-driven personalization and member engagement. - **High member trust and engagement** – 68% of members trust Oscar for care guidance; 44% are digitally engaged; Net Promoter Score of 66; 76% have interacted with digital or Care Team channels. - **Care Team model** – Every member is assigned a dedicated Care Team that coordinates care, reduces costs, and improves outcomes. - **Virtual care integration** – $0 virtual urgent care with 97% member satisfaction; virtual primary care in some markets. ## Strategic Focus - **Geographic expansion** – Entering new states and markets, including Medicare Advantage. - **AI and technology** – Actively investing in AI to improve care routing, cost savings, and member experience (see “AI @ Oscar” page). - **Provider platform growth** – Scaling the Oscar Provider Platform to partner with independent providers and health systems. - **Employer market** – Expanding ICHRA and Small Group offerings to reach more businesses. ## Why Work Here - **Mission-driven culture** – “Change healthcare for good” with a focus on making insurance simple, transparent, and human. Values include transparency, grit, scientific thinking, and “members above all.” - **Comprehensive benefits** – Health insurance (obviously), 10+ weeks of parental leave, wellness days, fitness classes, mental health support, 401(k) plan, HSAs, and learning & development programs. - **Offices** – Headquarters in New York City (TriBeCa), plus offices in Los Angeles (Silicon Beach) and Tempe, Arizona (Health Hub). Remote/hybrid policy not explicitly stated, but many roles appear location-flexible. - **Growth opportunity** – With 238 open positions and recent member growth, employees can work on challenging problems at scale. - **Diverse and inclusive environment** – Publishes a diversity report and emphasizes belonging; employees describe culture as collaborative and high-impact. ## Sources 1. [hioscar.com/about](https://www.hioscar.com/about) 2. [hioscar.com/careers](https://www.hioscar.com/careers) 3. [hioscar.com/careers/life](https://www.hioscar.com/careers/life) 4. [linkedin.com/company/oscar-health](https://www.linkedin.com/company/oscar-health) 5. 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