Paige Bennett
“More research doesn't mean more impact. Speed matters, but the better question is whether research changes what a team builds, prioritizes, or decides.”
At Sprig
Paige hosts The Insights Table, Sprig's dinners for research leaders, in cities from Austin to Boston to Minneapolis. She also spoke at Sprig's Experience Research Summit on guiding research teams to success with AI.
As Director of User Research for more than five years, she led a research organization across every product vertical and presented to the whole company each quarter on research impact and AI-augmented workflows.
She built and led Weight Watchers' first user research team, setting its research strategy across every product.
She led research behind the launch of Medium's membership subscription model.
Her talks on research strategy and bringing insights to life have taken her from London to Maze's Disco Conf.
Focus areas
- AI research workflows
- Research ops
- Research democratization
- Research strategy
- Insight storytelling
- Executive influence
Has spoken at
- Experience Research Summit by Sprig
- UXRConf
- Disco Conf by Maze
- Fintech Design Summit
- ADPList Product Days
- User Research London
- UX Live London
- The UX Conference London
- 99U
Education
Background
Paige is a research executive with more than 10 years of experience scaling user research at high-growth companies including Affirm, Dropbox, Medium and Weight Watchers. Her focus is turning insights into product strategy and business outcomes, and she has championed research democratization while keeping quality standards high.
She founded Users First AI to help research teams design AI workflows that take on logistics, synthesis and repetitive tasks, so researchers can focus on the work only they can do. Her path into research began in a newsroom, producing an Emmy-winning evening newscast.
Career
- 2026 to present
Users First AI
Founder and Principal Consultant
- 2020 to 2026
Affirm
Director of User Research
- 2018 to 2020
Dropbox
Design Research Manager
- 2016 to 2018
Medium
Senior Design Researcher
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Sprig hosts dinners, summits and virtual sessions for research and insights leaders in cities across North America.