Senior UX Researcher, LearnX

By applying to this position you will have an opportunity to share your preferred working location from the following:
Mountain View, CA, USA;
New York, NY, USA
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• 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 inquiries, 1:1 interviews, unmoderated research studies).

• Master's degree or PhD in Human‑Computer Interaction, Cognitive Science, Statistics, Psychology, Anthropology, or related field.
• 5 years of experience conducting UX research on products and working with executive leadership (e.g., Director level and above).
• Experience with large‑scale survey design and analysis.
• Experience working with educational products.
• Experience working with cross‑functional teams.
• Excellent people‑management, communication, and collaboration skills.

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 LearnX team, you will lead research to identify product opportunities for learners across Gemini, NotebookLM, Labs, and You Tube. Your work will advance GenAI investments for students and guide the user experience.

Learning is the ongoing quest for understanding, and we made it our mission more than 20 years ago to organize the world’s information to make it universally accessible and useful. The Learning and Education team’s mission is to help everyone in the world learn anything and to provide the information, tools, and services that help people gain knowledge, fuel curiosity, and prepare for what’s next.

We focus our work to add the most value for users, enabling learning for school, work, and life, and we believe everyone can and should have access to quality learning experiences to reach their full potential.

The US base salary range for this full‑time position is $159,000‑$231,000 plus bonus, equity, and benefits. Our salary ranges are determined by role, level, and location. Within the range, individual pay is determined by work location and additional factors, including job‑related skills, experience, and relevant education or training.

• Drive an impactful research agenda focused on LearnX’s new product initiatives.
• Identify emerging product opportunities by understanding user needs and the competitive landscape to help teams achieve product‑market fit.
• Lead a continuous research program that provides foundational and iterative insights to product innovation teams.
• Partner with designers, product managers, engineers, and other teams to inform product decisions, and assist in organizing research events and design sprints.
• Leverage storytelling to communicate research findings and advocate for a user‑focused perspective in product discussions and strategic planning.

Google is proud to be an equal‑opportunity workplace and is an affirmative action employer. We are committed to equal employment opportunity regardless of race, color, ancestry, religion, sex, national origin, sexual orientation, age, citizenship, marital status, disability, gender identity, or veteran status. We also consider qualified applicants regardless of criminal histories, consistent with legal requirements. See also Google’s EEO Policy and EEO is the Law.

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