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Portfolio Presentation

Duration: 60 minutes.

Objective: Showcase how your research expertise, strategic thinking, and influence have shaped impactful product decisions, especially in complex, collaborative product environments. We're looking for examples of how they’ve led qualitative research that uncovered meaningful insights, informed product strategy, and supported product development across multiple surfaces or personas.

Note: The medium that you present is completely up to you.

Check-in with recruiting. Your recruiter, is happy to provide feedback or even do a dry-run.

Presentation Outline Recommendation ⏱

For the presentation, you should prepare about 45-50 minutes of content and expect 10-15 minutes of questions. You can choose whether to take questions as you go or hold them to the end ー just let us know. Below is some guidance on how to split your time.

Duration Guidance

Focus

5 mins

Background Overview

Briefly walk us through your academic and professional background.

Share how your experience has shaped your approach to product and UX research.

Highlight your areas of expertise—especially in qualitative research, and how you collaborate across teams to influence decision-making.

20 mins

Deep Dives

Please prepare three case studies that demonstrate the breadth and depth of your research practice (mixed methods). Across them, we’d love to see:

The product or user challenge you were solving.

Your research approach (especially qualitative), including how you chose and executed methods.

How you collaborated with PMs, designers, engineers, and other stakeholders.

Key insights, and how you translated them into decisions or action.

Impact—how your work shaped product direction, accelerated development, clarified user needs, or aligned the team.

Reflections—what you learned, what you might do differently, and how your approach has evolved

2 mins

Why Superhuman?

Why is AI-assisted communication and productivity an exciting space for you?

How do you see your mixed methods research practice contributing to Superhuman’s mission?

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Evaluation Criteria ✅

Presentation Tips ✨

Your case studies should include:

Briefly describe the company, project context, the business problem, and why it was critical to solve.

Define the target user, their needs, and how your solution balanced user needs with business goals.

Share your end-to-end design approach, including research, ideation, prototyping, testing, iterations, and key challenges.

Highlight your strategic vision and ability to shape design direction, aligning with broader goals.

Demonstrate how you collaborated with cross-functional teams, including product, engineering, and leadership, and influenced product vision.

Quantify results and share success metrics to demonstrate measurable outcomes.

Reflect on successes, challenges, lessons learned, and how they shaped your design approach.

Present a clear, engaging narrative using visuals.

Throughout your presentation, you should plan for questions and assume this will be a dynamic conversation. Aim to leave 10-15 minutes at the end for Q&A.

There are a few important themes that we’ll be looking out for throughout the entire presentation. More than anything the team is curious about how you think, especially when you come across complex problems and how you break them down. We’re curious about the frameworks and principles you apply when making decisions, and your general approach. In particular how you deal with trade-offs and how you solve for various constraints or tensions, as well as your empathy for the end user.

Note on Video Recording 🎥

If this is your first time presenting with Zoom, you will need to grant your browser permission to record in order to screen share. It will prompt you to quit and restart the application.

A few members of the team might not be able to make the presentation, so we want to ask if it'd be okay to record this session so they can watch at a later time. No worries if not, but please do let us know.

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