Staff UX Quantitative Researcher, Android for Auto

About the role

At Google, we "Focus on the user and all else will follow." As a Quantitative User Experience Researcher (Quant UXR), you make this possible. You will join a multi-disciplinary team, collaborating closely with Engineering and Product Management to create industry-leading, innovative products.

Responsibilities

• Influence stakeholders across organizations to gain support for research-based, user-centric solutions.
• Own project priorities in alignment 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.
• Shape goal and strategy discussions through research by analyzing, consolidating, or synthesizing what is known about user, product, service, or business needs.

Requirements

• Bachelor’s degree or equivalent practical experience.
• 8 years of experience 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.

Preferred qualifications

• Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Statistics, Human-Computer Interaction, Economics, Data Science, or a related quantitative field, or equivalent practical experience.
• 8 years of experience conducting UX research on products.
• 7 years of experience working with executive leadership (e.g., Director level and above).
• 5 years of experience managing projects, and working in a large, matrixed organization.
• Demonstrated experience with statistical methods, including experimental design, hypothesis testing, regression modeling, and time-series analysis.

Benefits

• Health, dental, vision, life, disability insurance
• Retirement Benefits: 401(k) with company match
• Paid Time Off: 20 days of vacation per year, accruing at a rate of 6.15 hours per pay period for the first five years of employment
• Sick Time: 40 hours/year (increased to 69 hours/year for Seattle) including 5 discretionary sick days per instance
• Maternity Leave (Short-Term Disability + Baby Bonding): 28-30 weeks
• Baby Bonding Leave: 18 weeks
• Holidays: 13 paid days per year

Pay

US: $188,000 - $275,000 (USD) + 20% bonus target + equity + benefits

Schedule

Full Time