User Research UX Apprentice
Back Market
User Research UX Apprentice
Back Market
Global marketplace for refurbished electronics
We’re here to help make tech reliable, affordable, and better than new. We're a global marketplace for refurbished devices, helping lower our collective environmental impact by providing trustworthy, affordable tech with 92% less carbon emissions than new.
Yep, you read that right. Turns out refurbished tech is way better for the planet than new. In fact, With every device purchased on Back Market, our positive impact on the planet grows. From our Customer Care representatives to our software engineer, every individual at Back Market cuts the planet — and consumers — a break. Our mission is simple: to do more with what we already have.
Are you ready to join us?
The User Research team’s mission is to help everybody at Back Market get to know and love our users so that we can create great experiences for them. We gather insights about what users need through a range of qualitative and quantitative techniques and translate them into valuable information for the product and design team.
As an User Research (UX) Apprentice, you will work on the e-commerce experience Back Market provides to its customers, using insights to provide actionable recommendations for improvements, as well as contributing to improve our research processes, tools, and communications. You will also work closely with our business and product teams to ensure a user -centered culture in our problem and solution definition.
Bring stakeholders (business people), designers, product owners and engineers together to build, maintain, and evolve a robust experience for Back Market’s customers
Listen to business problems and helping craft action plans
Conduct qualitative research to collect insights and build strong recommendations
Launch quantitative studies to discover trends and validate the hypothesis
Work closely with product designers to ensure that your recommendations have the maximum impact
Present the results of your work to the company and make sure that the value of research is understood
Contribute to the development of the UX Research team with your colleagues
You're looking for an apprenticeship
English is a no-brainer (fully professional capability) for you. If you’re extra cool and speak more languages, bonus points for you!
You have experience or convincing knowledge of best practices in conducting research (qualitative and quantitative research methods, such as usability testing, observational research, user interviews, surveys, card sorts, contextual inquiry, etc.)
You have strong presentation and communication skills.
You have e-commerce experience, that would be a plus but it's not required.
Starting date: January 2027
Duration: Ideally for 24 months (12 months to be discussed).
Location: Bordeaux, France
Contract: You must already be enrolled in a work-study program in a French school (contrat d'alternance / d'apprentissage)
Skills fit/Tech interview with the direct manager
Cultural fit interview with another person in the team
Video-call Interview with the Campus Talent Acquisition Specialist
At Back Market, we’re committed to hiring and supporting diverse teams of people from all backgrounds, experiences, and perspectives — it’s one of the reasons we’re such a high-scoring certified B Corp company (93.2).
No matter your role and seniority level, you’ll enjoy impact-driven work with hands-on career development in an innovative, driven, and fast-paced environment — with benefits to match, like:
- A mission driven work environment where your day to day makes an impact on the planet. Seriously.
- Hybrid work environment, with 2 remote days a week and 1 remote work week per quarter, plus 3 flex days.
- Employee Resource Groups, including mentorship programs, comprehensive accessibility policies, and cultural competency training.
At Back Market, we strive to create a workplace that embodies the world we’re trying to change. We’ve embedded our diversity, equity, and inclusion principles into our DNA — from dedicated staff to employee resource groups to our company values.
We know that the perfect background for a role doesn’t mean the perfect fit — we encourage you to apply for a role even if you think you may not have all the qualifications.
If reasonable accommodations are needed for the interview process, please do not hesitate to discuss this with the Talent Acquisition Team.
Global marketplace for refurbished electronics
Back Market is a global marketplace that connects buyers with professional refurbishers to buy refurbished electronic devices. The platform coordinates a network of refurbishers to ensure each device meets high quality and performance standards, offering customers environmentally friendly tech at lower prices. The process involves listing refurbished devices, vetting partners, and handling transactions through the platform, with revenue earned as a commission on each sale. What sets Back Market apart is its focus on sustainability and rigorous quality control across multiple countries, ensuring reliable, certified refurbished products rather than just generic discounts. Its goal is to reduce electronic waste by making certified refurbished devices a mainstream, affordable alternative while maintaining high standards and scale through a commission-based model.
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