- Full Time
- Sunnyvale, California, United States
- Applications have closed
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 delve into user behaviors and motivations through primary research methods, including field studies, interviews, diary studies, participatory workshops, ethnography, surveys, usability testing, and log 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.
User experience is at the forefront of how we create intuitive, innovative, and beautiful products that people love. We strive to learn and understand our users’ needs, behaviors, and emotions to gather insights that inform product strategy and design. Our UX teams include designers, researchers, content strategists, and engineers who are passionate about quality, usability, and simplicity. We work on collaborative teams to solve complex challenges and craft experiences that highlight our products’ unique capabilities and personalities. Our work touches billions while exemplifying a key principle that is core to Google’s philosophy: “Focus on the user and all else will follow.”
Minimum Qualifications
- Bachelor’s degree in Human-Computer Interaction, Human Factors, Psychology, Computer Science, Cognitive Science, Information Science, Statistics, a related field, or equivalent practical experience.
- Experience from an internship, work, or project with research design utilizing various methods including, usability studies, contextual inquiry, and surveys.
Preferred Qualifications
- Master’s degree or Phd in Human Factors, Psychology, Human Computer Interaction, Cognitive Science, Computer Science, Information Science, related field, or equivalent practical experience.
- 1 year of experience in User Experience, Human factors, Human-Computer Interaction, applied research settings, or product research and development.
- Experience integrating qualitative findings with quantitative results to provide learning and recommendations.
- Excellent communication, negotiation, and collaboration skills.