Senior UX Quantitative Researcher, Google Maps

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About the role

As a Quantitative User Experience Researcher (Quant UXR) at Google, 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. The role focuses on leading strategic quantitative research and measurement programs across Google Maps, with high leadership visibility. You will also grow within a supportive Quant UXR community offering mentorship, regular meetups, and exclusive internal tools.

The Geo team builds the most accurate, comprehensive, and useful maps for users through products like Maps, Earth, Street View, and Google Maps Platform. Every month, over a billion people rely on these services to navigate their daily lives.

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, survey design, metrics development, and statistical analysis.

Preferred Qualifications

• Master's degree or PhD in Human-Computer Interaction, Cognitive Science, Statistics, Psychology, Anthropology, or a 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.

Benefits

• Health, dental, vision, life, and disability insurance.
• Retirement benefits: 401(k) with company match.
• Paid time off: 20 days of vacation per year (accruing at 6.15 hours per pay period for the first five years).
• Sick time: 40 hours/year (69 hours/year for Seattle), including 5 discretionary sick days per instance.
• Maternity leave: 28-30 weeks (short-term disability + baby bonding).
• Baby bonding leave: 18 weeks.
• Holidays: 13 paid days per year.

Pay

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