Senior UX Researcher, Advertiser Safety

By applying to this position you will have an opportunity to share your preferred working location from the following:
Seattle, WA, USA;
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).
• 3 years of experience managing projects, and working in a matrixed organization.

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: we care deeply about the people who use our products. The UX team plays an integral part in gathering insights about the needs, attitudes, emotions, and behaviors of people who use our products to inspire and inform design.

We collaborate closely with each other and with engineering and product management to create industry‑leading products that deliver value for the people who use them, and for 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 play a critical role in creating useful, usable, and delightful products. You’ll explore user behaviors and motivations by conducting primary research such as field studies, interviews, diary studies, participatory workshops, ethnography, surveys, usability testing, and logs analysis.

The UXR community at Google is unique and will help you do your best work. You’ll have the opportunity to work with and learn from UXRs across Google through regular meetups, mentor programs, and access to internal research tools.

Our team is dedicated to building the world’s most trusted advertising platform. We protect businesses of all sizes by transforming complex safety and security hurdles into intuitive, prevention‑first experiences. Google Ads is helping power the open internet with the best technology that connects and creates value for people, publishers, advertisers, and Google. We’re made up of multiple teams, building Google’s Advertising products including search, display, shopping, travel and video advertising, as well as analytics.

Our teams create trusted experiences between people and businesses with useful ads. We help grow businesses of all sizes—from small businesses to large brands to You Tube creators—with effective advertiser tools that deliver measurable results. We also enable Google to engage with customers at scale.

$151,000-$222,000 + bonus + equity + benefits. 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. Your recruiter can share more about the specific salary range for your preferred location during the hiring process.

• Lead a strategic research roadmap that identifies opportunities to transform safety and security hurdles into intuitive, prevention‑first product experiences.
• Identify and advocate for user‑centric solutions that streamline the advertiser journey, replacing disjointed policy and compliance workflows with real‑time, actionable guidance.
• Conduct foundational and tactical research to understand the policy experience, risk profiles, and business needs of advertisers to inform the long‑term strategy.
• Collaborate with cross‑functional partners in Product, Design, Engineering and…