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.
Requirements
- Experience with research methods (e.g., usability, studies, contextual inquires, 1:1 interviews, unmoderated research studies).
- Experience in core UX principles and methodologies, including user-centered design, information architecture, and interaction design.
- Experience in planning and executing quantitative UX studies, utilizing tools and metrics such as A/B testing, key performance indicators (KPIs), and user analytics to inform design decisions.
- Experience conducting UX research on products and working with executive leadership (e.g., Director level and above).
- Experience conducting research with highly technical users (e.g., software engineers, data scientists, or researchers).
- Experience with the software development lifecycle, tools, or enterprise data infrastructure.
- Experience leading multi-team research programs and influencing leadership.
Responsibilities
- Own project priorities in alignment with product goals, and oversee allocation of resources within the project.
- Drive ideas to improve products and services through research-driven insights and recommendations.
- Lead teams to define and evaluate product, service, ecosystem impact.
- Own idea and strategy discussions through research by analyzing, consolidating, or synthesizing what is known about user, product, service, or business needs.
- partner with cross-functional peers to define a strategic idea for the future of experimentation across emerging developer workflows and ecosystems, and align stakeholders across multiple product surfaces.
Other
- Influence stakeholders across organizations to gain support for research-based, user-centric solutions.
- Bachelor's degree or equivalent practical experience.
- 6 years of experience of experience in an applied research setting (e.g., product or academic), or similar.
- 3 years of experience managing projects, and working in a changing organization.
- San Francisco, CA, USA; Sunnyvale, CA, USA
