Google User Experience (UX) is looking for a Quantitative User Experience Researcher to help inform their teams of UXers, product managers, and engineers about user needs, playing a critical role in creating useful, usable, and delightful products.
Requirements
- Experience in programming languages used for data manipulation and computational statistics (e.g., Python, R, MATLAB, C++, Java, or Go).
- Ability to demonstrate excellent command of research questions within a given domain, and of technical tools for the analysis of data within that field.
Responsibilities
- Define and measure quantitative UX goals and metrics in collaboration with Designers, Qualitative Researchers, Data Scientists, Engineers, and Program Managers.
- Craft quantitative surveys to effectively size user sentiments, needs, and behaviors.
- Develop code or statistical models to understand user experience.
- Conduct empirical research using methods from computer science, quantitative social science, statistics, econometrics, and other fields to understand user behavior and extract meaningful patterns from large data sets.
- 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.
- 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 large, matrixed organization.
- Partner with cross-functional teams (Program Managers, Design, and Engineering) and internal teams (UXRs) to drive product impact.
