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The phrase growing research function is the part candidates skim past
Recall the main items in "The phrase growing research function is the part candidates skim past", then connect each one to the work.
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The phrase growing research function is the part candidates skim past. You are joining early. There is no deep research org to absorb you, no standing ops team to recruit your participants and no template library waiting on a shared drive. Early means high use and it means you build the scaffolding while you do the work.
- Senior IC. You personally own the craft and the calls.
- Mixed-methods. You reach for the right method - a survey or the analytics - whenever talking to people isn't the way to answer the question.
- Roadmap-driving, not report-producing. Success is a decision Cursor made differently, not a deck you delivered.
- Early-function builder, not process inheritor. You bring the playbook; nobody hands you one.
When the recruiter or hiring manager asks you to describe the role, compress it before you elaborate: “I own end-to-end research that tells Cursor what developers want, need and love, across qual, analytics, surveys and experiments and I push that into roadmap decisions.” Then add the texture that you know it's an early function you help build. That framing shows you read the charter, not just the bullet list.