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Senior UX Researcher, Search Ads

Google 🇺🇸 Mountain View, California, United States of America

Onsite $159,000 - $231,000 Full-time Senior

Conduct and lead primary research to identify user needs and business opportunities that guide product strategy and improvements. Influence cross-functional partners by communicating research insights and driving user-centric solutions.

Responsibilities

  • Conduct and lead research to identify user needs and business opportunities
  • Drive user-centric thinking to influence partners and collaboratively solve constraints in strategy, product, or technology
  • Build consensus and influence the team to gain support for research-based, user-centric solutions
  • Communicate research insights and recommendations to partners
  • Identify, create, and use key insights and metrics to evaluate product, service, and ecosystem impact
  • Contribute to developing project priorities in alignment with larger project goals
  • Coordinate allocation of resources within the project

Requirements

  • Bachelor's degree or equivalent practical experience
  • 6 years of experience in an applied research setting
  • Experience with research methods (e.g., usability, studies, contextual inquires, 1:1 interviews, unmoderated research studies)
  • Master's degree or PhD in Human-Computer Interaction, Cognitive Science, Statistics, Psychology, Anthropology, or a related field (preferred)
  • 5 years of experience conducting UX research on products and working with executive leadership (preferred)
  • 3 years of experience managing projects and working in a large, cross-functional organization (preferred)

Benefits

  • Bonus
  • Equity
  • Benefits (learn more at https://careers.google.com/benefits/)

Key Skills

User experience research Research methods (e.g., usability, studies, contextual inquires, 1:1 interviews, unmoderated research studies) Human-Computer Interaction Cognitive Science Statistics Psychology Anthropology Project management Cross-functional collaboration Communication Leadership Data analysis Problem-solving User-centered design

About Google

A problem isn't truly solved until it's solved for all. Googlers build products that help create opportunities for everyone, whether down the street or across the globe. Bring your insight, imagination and a healthy disregard for the impossible. Bring everything that makes you unique. Together, we can build for everyone. Check out our career opportunities at goo.gle/3DLEokh

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