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 attitudes, emotions, needs, 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 Quantitative User Experience Researcher (Quant UXR), you’ll help inform your team of UXers, product managers, and engineers about user needs. You’ll play a critical role in creating useful, usable, and delightful products. You’ll work with stakeholders across functions and levels and have impact at all stages of product development.
Requirements
- Experience in programming languages used for data manipulation and computational statistics (e.g., Python, R, MATLAB, C++, Java, or Go).
- Experience working in SQL in applied research settings.
- Experience with on and off product surveys and experimental design.
Responsibilities
- Define and measure quantitative UX metrics in collaboration with Product Managers, Designers, Qualitative Researchers, Data Scientists, Engineers, and Program Managers.
- Craft quantitative surveys and log data analysis to size user sentiment, behaviors, and needs.
- Conduct research using methods from computer science, quantitative social science, statistics, econometrics, and other fields to understand user behavior and extract patterns from data sets.
- Examine existing data and product designs to generate hypotheses and plans for high-impact research.
- Prioritize and drive research to improve user experience, communicate findings to stakeholders, and make research findings convincing for both research experts and non-experts.
- investigate user behavior and user needs using empirical research methods such as logs analysis, survey research, path modeling, and regression analysis.
- combine skills in behavioral research design, statistical methods, and general programming to improve user experience.
Other
- 6 years of experience in product research in an applied research setting, or similar.
- 3 years of experience working with executive leadership (e.g., Director level and above).
- 2 years of experience conducting UX research on products, managing projects, and working in a changing organization.
- US base salary range for this full-time position is $151,000-$222,000 + bonus + equity + benefits.
- 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.
