Senior UX Quantitative Researcher, Google Maps

About the role

At Google, we "Focus on the user and all else will follow." As a Quantitative User Experience Researcher (Quant UXR), you make this possible. You will join a multi-disciplinary team, collaborating closely with Engineering and Product Management to create industry-leading, innovative products. You will drive impact at all stages of development by investigating user behavior through empirical methods like logs analysis, survey research, and regression.

Responsibilities

• Lead quantitative research programs across Google Maps to elevate the excellence and standardization of research practices.
• Drive innovation in scaled survey methodologies and AI-driven tooling to measure product quality at scale.
• Develop analysis-friendly instrumentation and taxonomy to advance AI models and user experience.
• Provide mentorship to junior and mid-level quantitative UXRs within the Geo organization.
• Collaborate cross-functionally with engineering, product management, and data science to influence product strategy and launch metrics.

Requirements

• Bachelor's degree or equivalent practical experience.
• 6 years of experience in product research in an applied research setting, or similar.
• Experience in programming languages used for data manipulation and computational statistics (e.g., Python, R, MATLAB, C++, Java, or Go).
• Experience in logs analysis.
• Experience in survey design and metrics development.
• Experience in statistical analysis.

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 designing, testing, and analyzing large-scale in-product surveys.
• Experience setting up quantitative programs and aligning outcomes against user metrics.

Skills

• Blending of behavioral research design, statistical proficiency, and programming skills.

Benefits

• Health, dental, vision, life, disability insurance.
• Retail 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

$159000 - $231000 (USD) + 15% bonus target + equity + benefits