Senior Staff UX Researcher, Google Labs

About the job

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.
• Own the goal and strategy discussions through research by analyzing, consolidating, or synthesizing what is known about user, product, service, or business needs.

Qualifications

• Minimum qualifications:
• - Bachelor's degree or equivalent practical experience.
• - 10 years of experience in an applied research setting, or similar.
• - Experience with research design using qualitative methods, including in-depth interviews, concept research, usability studies, and surveys.
• - Experience conducting product research in the AI, machine learning, gaming, or media space.
• Preferred qualifications:
• - Master's degree or PhD in Human-Computer Interaction, Cognitive Science, Statistics, Psychology, Anthropology, or related field.
• - 10 years of experience conducting UX research on products and working with executive leadership (e.g., Director level and above).
• - 7 years of experience managing projects, and working in a large, matrixed organization.
• - Experience influencing product roadmap, product strategy, or design decisions through research insights and recommendations.
• - Experience working with, or creating products for, scientific or academic communities.

Pay

• US: $236,000 - $330,000 (USD) + 25% bonus target + equity + benefits

Schedule

• Not specified

Benefits

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