Senior UX Researcher, Search Ads

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

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• Conduct and lead research to identify user needs and business opportunities that guide product/service strategy, improvements and business goals.
• Drive user-centric thinking to influence partners and collaboratively solve constraints in strategy, product or technology.
• Build consensus and influence the team to gain support for research-based, user-centric solutions, and communicate research insights and recommendations to partners.
• Identify, create and use key insights and metrics to evaluate product, service and ecosystem impact.
• Contribute to developing project priorities in alignment with larger project goals, and coordinate allocation of resources within the project.
• Identify a research program by planning, designing and engaging in strategic and tactical research that informs the product/service/business.

Requirements

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

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, cross-functional organization.

Benefits

Individual pay is determined by factors including job-related skills, experience, and relevant education or training. US: $159000 - $231000 (USD) + 15% bonus target + equity + benefits

Pay

US: $159000 - $231000 (USD)

Schedule

TBD