User Researcher - Germany
Sungrow Europe - Welcome traveler! · Munich, Bavaria, Germany
Renewable Energy Equipment Manufacturing · 501-1,000 employees
About the role
Plan and conduct qualitative and quantitative user research to identify European user needs and pain points across energy solutions. Analyze research findings to provide actionable insights for product and design teams while advocating for the user perspective.
What they look for
Requirements
Requires a Master’s degree in a design or psychology-related field and three to five years of professional experience in user research. Candidates must possess strong practical knowledge of research methods and excellent communication skills in English.
Full description
Your mission
Servus und hallo bei uns hier in Sungrow! As a User Researcher, you will help shape user-centred, sustainable energy solutions across residential, commercial, and utility-scale applications. Curious what this is all about? Let’s dive right in:
- Plan and conduct qualitative and quantitative user research, including interviews, usability tests, surveys, field studies, and on-site observations.
- Identify European user needs, behaviours, pain points, and expectations across Sungrow’s energy solutions.
- Analyse research findings and turn complex data into clear, practical insights for product and design teams.
- Create and present structured research reports that advocate for the European user perspective across stakeholder groups.
- Translate user challenges into opportunity areas and support design teams in developing intuitive, innovative solutions.
- Build and maintain a user-research knowledge database while monitoring relevant regulatory, market, technology, and design trends.
Your profile
Sounds interesting, right? To feel confident, successful, and happy in this role, your ideal background could look like this:
- Master’s degree in Service Design, Psychology, Interaction Design, UX/UI Design, Human-Computer Interaction, or a related field.
- Three to five years of professional experience in user research, UX research, service design, or a comparable discipline.
- Strong practical knowledge of research methods such as interviews, surveys, usability testing, diary studies, field research, and A/B testing.
- Experience facilitating co-creation workshops and collaborating with cross-functional product, design, and business teams is a plus.
- Analytical thinking and the ability to transform user feedback into clear, actionable recommendations.
- Clear, open, and proactive communication skills, with confidence presenting insights to diverse stakeholders.
- English C1; German and Chinese language skills are a plus.
- Please include a short PDF portfolio demonstrating relevant work; for data-security reasons, download links cannot be accepted.
Why us?
Join Sungrow’s user-centred product and design community and help make clean-energy technology more intuitive, accessible, and impactful for customers across Europe. You will collaborate with international teams, influence products from early discovery through delivery, and bring the European user perspective into solutions spanning PV, energy storage, and smart energy applications. About us
We are a green tech company with young creative minds. We are fighting every day to make our mission happen – Clean Power for All!
With 870+GW of clean power presently installed worldwide, we are on the road to success!
Welcome at Sungrow
Founded in 1997 by University Professor Cao Renxian, Sungrow is a leader in the research and development of solar inverters with the largest dedicated R&D team in the industry and a broad product portfolio offering PV inverter solutions and energy storage systems for utility-scale, commercial & industrial, and residential applications, as well as internationally recognized floating PV plant solutions, NEV driving solutions, EV charging solutions and renewable hydrogen production systems.
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