Senior UX Researcher, Trust

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 will 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. You will explore user behaviors and motivations by conducting primary research, including: field studies, interviews, diary studies, ethnography, surveys, usability testing, and logs analysis. You will also grow within a supportive UXR community offering mentorship, regular meetups, and exclusive internal tools.

As a Senior UX Researcher on the Core Trust UX team, you will own and drive foundational and evaluative research for some of Google's most critical consent, transparency, and age-assurance experiences. Your mission is to build durable, cross-Google solutions that empower users to make meaningful, informed choices about their data while ensuring compliant and age-appropriate experiences.

Responsibilities

• Develop and maintain a prioritized research roadmap aligned with product strategy and larger business objectives.
• Plan and execute research with minimal supervision from scoping, planning, and recruiting, to execution and reporting.
• Derive foundational and tactical user insights utilizing various methods, including interviews, diary studies, workshops, literature reviews, usability testing, and surveys.
• Analyze, synthesize, and interpret study findings into key insights and deliver them to cross-functional stakeholders in a clear, concise, and compelling way.
• Work closely with Quantitative UX Researchers, UX Designers, Product Managers, and Engineers to inform product direction and decisions.