Senior Quantitative UX Researcher, Ecosystem Growth

About the role

At Google, we "Focus on the user and all else will follow." As a User Experience Researcher (UXR), you make this possible. You will join our multi-disciplinary UX team, collaborating with Engineering and Product Management, to gather insights and create industry-leading products. You’ll play a critical role in helping your team understand user needs and will drive impact at all stages of product development, ensuring products are useful, usable, and helpful.

Responsibilities

• Influence stakeholders across organizations to gain support for research-based, user-centric solutions.
• Own project priorities in alignment with larger product goals, and oversee allocation of resources within the project.
• Drive ideas to improve products and services through research-driven insights and recommendations.
• Lead teams to define and evaluate product, service, and ecosystem impact.
• Shape goal and strategy discussions through research by analyzing, consolidating, or synthesizing what is known about user, product, service, or business needs.

Requirements

• Bachelor's degree or equivalent practical experience.
• 6 years of experience of experience in an applied research setting (e.g., product or academic), or similar.
• Experience with qualitive research, quantitative research, and surveys.

Preferred qualifications

• Master's degree or PhD in Human-Computer Interaction, Cognitive Science, Statistics, Psychology, Anthropology, or related field.
• 5 years of experience conducting UX research on products and working with executive leadership (e.g., Director level and above).
• 3 years of experience managing projects, and working in a large, matrixed organization.
• Experience driving 0-to-1 product development through strategic, human-centered research.
• Experience working with complex data sets (e.g., multimodal data), and advanced quantitative methodologies (e.g., logs analytics, causal inference, and user segmentation).

Benefits

• Health, dental, vision, life, disability insurance
• Retailment Benefits: 401(k) with company match
• Paid Time Off: 20 days of vacation per year, accruing at a rate of 6.15 hours per pay period for the first five years of employment
• Sick Time: 40 hours/year (increased to 69 hours/year for Seattle) including 5 discretionary sick days per instance
• Maternity Leave (Short-Term Disability + Baby Bonding): 28-30 weeks
• Baby Bonding Leave: 18 weeks
• Holidays: 13 paid days per year

Pay

$159,000 - $230,000 (USD) + 15% bonus target + equity + benefits

Schedule

Flexible work schedule