Senior UX Researcher

About the role

At Google, we “Focus on the user and all else will follow.” As a User Experience Researcher (UXR), you will help our multi-disciplinary UX team collaborate with Engineering and Product Management to gather insights and create industry-leading products. You will play a critical role in helping your team understand user needs and 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 aligned 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, ecosystem impact.
• Own outlook and strategy discussions through research by analyzing, consolidating, or synthesizing what is known about users, product, service, or business needs.

Qualifications

• Bachelor's degree or equivalent practical experience.
• 6 years of experience in an applied research setting (product or academic) or similar.
• Experience with research methods such as usability studies, contextual inquiries, 1:1 interviews, unmoderated research studies.

Preferred Qualifications

• Master's degree or Ph.D. 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.
• 3 years of experience managing projects and working in a large, matrixed organization.

Pay

US: $159,000 – $231,000 (USD) plus a 15% bonus target, equity, and benefits.