Senior UX Researcher, YouTube Shorts Creation

About the job

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. 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.

YouTube Shorts Creation

YouTube Shorts is on a mission to give everyone a voice and show them the world through short-form video. On the Shorts Creation team, our mission is to empower everyone to create engaging Shorts, and the Editing workstream is at the heart of this mission by building tools that help creators shape their raw footage into stories.

Responsibilities

• Define and own the multi-quarter user experience research strategy and roadmap for the Shorts Editing workstream, identifying and scoping research opportunities.
• Partner with Product Management, Engineering, and User Experience Design to influence the product roadmap and guide experiences that engage editing gaps.
• Plan and execute foundational and evaluative research on generative AI-assisted editing paradigms, balancing automation with creator control.
• Conduct mixed-methods research and tactical evaluations to streamline the video creation flow and mitigate user friction points.
• Translate research findings and behavioral log analysis into actionable frameworks and benchmarking programs to track tool quality and satisfaction.