Senior UX Researcher, Core

Overview

Mid-level User Experience Researcher (UXR) with experience driving progress, solving problems, and mentoring more junior team members; deeper expertise and applied knowledge within relevant area. Apply

At Google, we follow a simple but vital premise: "Focus on the user and all else will follow." User Experience Researchers (UXRs) make this possible. Google User Experience (UX) is made up of multi-disciplinary teams of UX Designers, Researchers, Writers, Content Strategists, Program Managers, and Engineers. The UX team cares deeply about the people who use our products. We collaborate with engineering and product management to create industry-leading products that deliver value for users and Google’s businesses.

As a User Experience Researcher (UXR), you’ll help your team of UXers, product managers, and engineers understand user needs. You’ll work with stakeholders across functions and levels and have impact at all stages of product development. You’ll conduct primary research such as field studies, interviews, diary studies, participatory workshops, ethnography, surveys, usability testing, and logs analysis to explore user behaviors and motivations.

You’ll have opportunities to learn from UXRs across Google through regular meetups, mentor programs, and access to internal research tools.

You will directly shape the sign-in experiences for users and be part of a collaborative team that thrives on managing research questions together. The Core team builds the technical foundation behind Google’s flagship products and drives the pace of innovation. We look across Google’s products to build central solutions, break down technical barriers, and strengthen systems.

The US base salary range for this full-time position is $151,000-$222,000 plus bonus, equity, and benefits. Compensation varies by role, level, and location. Your recruiter can share more about the specific range for your location during the hiring process. Compensation details listed reflect base salary only and do not include bonus, equity, or benefits.

• Drive research programs to identify high-value opportunities for the team and cross-functional partners while managing priorities and high-profile initiatives.
• Partner with design, product, data science, and engineering leaders to drive product strategy and ensure product excellence through strategic and tactical research.
• Demonstrate problem-framing, build upon existing knowledge, integrate quantitative and qualitative methods, and deliver research execution and insights communication.
• Facilitate healthy team dynamics in a fast-paced environment, build cross-functional relationships, and increase adoption of strategic/tactical research insights at the team, product, and organizational level.
• Own and execute research surveys while serving as a methodology consultant for product experiments to ensure all data is grounded in statistical principles.

• Bachelor's degree or equivalent practical experience.
• 6 years of experience in an applied research setting (e.g., product or academic), or similar.
• 2 years of work experience in survey research, with experience in survey sampling, question design, and analysis best practices.
• Experience with research methods (e.g., usability, studies, contextual inquiries, 1:1 interviews, unmoderated research studies).

• Master's degree or PhD in human-computer interaction, cognitive science, statistics, psychology, anthropology, or a related field.
• Experience with usability testing, contextual inquiry, diary study, RITE, and other methods.
• Experience with product research to help teams identify new opportunities and guide how best to complete them with users.
• Experience understanding and assessing differences across user groups (e.g., new/existing users, multiple markets).
• Ability to lead foundational work (ethnography, interviews, longitudinal studies) and validate insights through strategic survey design and statistical analysis (SQL, SPSS, or R).

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By applying to this position you will have an opportunity to share your preferred working location from the following:
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