UX Research Leaders
If you are a UX research manager, director, or leader, there’s a new group just for leaders to meet, network, and share ideas. We invite you to be among the first to attend UXr Leaders and begin reaping the benefits professionally and personally.
- Your organization may benefit from the insights and recommendations of other leaders, helping you arrive at better solutions faster.
- You may benefit personally from an expanded network, career opportunities, and offers to collaborate on projects. A vibrant community of peers provides many options.
- Your experience and expertise may be helpful to others in the group.
- This is a volunteer-led organization with no fees.
We hope you’ll join with us — we look forward to meeting you.
Research Leaders Forum
Join us for the next Research Leaders Forum as our distinguished panel explores the many ways UX leaders demonstrate and measure the impact of UX research in large and small organizations.
RLF co-leaders Jocelyn Landau, Head of Global Monetization & Business Products Research, WhatsApp, and Janice Rohn, ex-Head of CX Research, Intel, will be joined by Abbe Rose Kopra, Director of UX Research at Verily, and Vasudha Chandrasekaran, VP, User Research and Product Analytics at Oracle, for this panel discussion.
With many years of applied experience leading research and insights teams, join us on May 6 at 1 pm PDT for the peer-to-peer conversation about emerging opportunities and challenges leaders face when driving research impact.
Whether you’re looking to carve out new opportunities for your team or future-proof your research practice, this session will deliver both guiding principles and actionable takeaways.
NOTE: This session will NOT be recorded; a summary document will be shared for those who cannot attend live.
Jocelyn Landau
Dr. Jocelyn Landau is a seasoned research leader at the intersection of technology, media and communications, with over 20 years of experience guiding business strategy, inspiring product innovations, and identifying uncharted user growth and engagement opportunities through data-driven insights.
Jocelyn is currently the Head of Global UXR for WhatsApp Monetization and Business Products and previously held Product UX leadership roles at Netflix, Yelp, and Google. She is an Advisory Board Member to the Annenberg Extended Reality Lab (AER) at the University of Pennsylvania and holds Ph.D. and M.A. degrees in media effects research from the Annenberg School, University of Pennsylvania.
Janice Rohn
Janice Rohn is a UX pioneer, starting her career at Stanford University and joining Apple’s Macintosh Human Interface Group. Janice was a founding Board Member of the Usability Professionals’ Association, has over 50 publications, multiple design patents, and has worked on standards for ISO, NIST, and other organizations.
Janice has worked at the executive VP level for over 20 years, leading teams at Fortune 500 companies, most recently as Head of Customer Research and Experience, at Intel from 2019 to 2024. She has worked with NNGroup for over 15 years developing and teaching UX leadership training courses.
Once per quarter, we gather research leaders for a virtual meeting to discuss common challenges. We feature research leaders sharing lessons learned from their research and highlighting challenges they have faced and how they have addressed them. Each forum features a presentation, discussion, and networking with other leaders.
Attendance is limited to research leaders (managers, directors, etc.) based in the U.S.
Past Events
• Leading Your Team Through the AI Transformation, December 12, 2025
• Growing Your Influence as a UX Research Leader, December 1, 2023
• Prioritizing Research Studies: Scaling the Impact of Your Research Team, February 2, 2023