Job description

At Google, we "Focus on the user and all else will follow." As a User Experience Researcher (UXR), you make this possible. You will join our multi-disciplinary UX team, collaborating with Engineering and Product Management, to gather insights and create industry-leading products. You’ll play a critical role in helping your team understand user needs and will drive impact at all stages of product development, ensuring products are useful, usable, and helpful. You will explore user behaviors and motivations by conducting primary research, including: field studies, interviews, diary studies, ethnography, surveys, usability testing, and logs analysis. You will also grow within a supportive UXR community offering mentorship, regular meetups, and exclusive internal tools. For decades, the computing revolution has reshaped our world driven by breakthroughs in compute, connectivity, mobile, and now, AI. Google's XR team is at the forefront of the next major leap – the convergence of AI and XR. This is more than just new devices – it's about reimagining how we interact with the world around us. We're building a future where lightweight XR devices like smart glasses and headsets pair with helpful AI to augment human intelligence, offering personalized, conversational, and contextually aware experiences.Individual pay is determined by factors including job-related skills, experience, and relevant education or training. US: $159000 - $231000 (USD) + 15% bonus target + equity + benefits Learn more about benefits at Google . • Define and measure quantitative UX goals and metrics in collaboration with Designers, Qualitative Researchers, Data Scientists, Engineers and Program Managers. • Develop code and 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. • 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 in the company. Make research findings convincing and actionable for both research experts and non-experts. • Bachelor's degree or equivalent practical experience. • 6 years of experience in product research in an applied research setting, or similar. • Experience with A/B testing or other experimental design methodologies. Minimum qualifications: • Bachelor's degree or equivalent practical experience. • 6 years of experience in product research in an applied research setting, or similar. • Experience with A/B testing or other experimental design methodologies. Preferred qualifications: • Master's degree or PhD in Human-Computer Interaction, Cognitive Science, Statistics, Psychology, Anthropology, or related fields. • 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. • Experience conducting research in Augmented Reality and Virtual Reality product environments. • Experience in physical product environments conducting research to drive ergonomics and physical design decisions. • Understanding of human physiology, human performance, visual processing, attentional demands, ergonomics, etc.

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Must-haves

For decades, the computing revolution has reshaped our world driven by
breakthroughs in compute, connectivity, mobile, and now, AI. Google's XR
team is at the forefront of the next major leap – the convergence of AI and XR. This is more than just new devices – it's about reimagining how we interact with the world around us. We're building a future where
Learn more about benefits at Google .
Define and measure quantitative UX goals and metrics in collaboration with Designers, Qualitative Researchers, Data Scientists, Engineers and Program Managers.
Develop code and 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.
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 in the company. Make research findings convincing and actionable for both research experts and non-experts.
Bachelor's degree or equivalent practical experience.
6 years of experience in product research in an applied research setting, or similar.
Experience with A/B testing or other experimental design methodologies.
Bachelor's degree or equivalent practical experience.
6 years of experience in product research in an applied research setting, or similar.
Experience with A/B testing or other experimental design methodologies.
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.

Nice-to-haves

US: $159000 - $231000 (USD) + 15% bonus target + equity + benefits
Master's degree or PhD in Human-Computer Interaction, Cognitive Science, Statistics, Psychology, Anthropology, or related fields.
Experience conducting research in Augmented Reality and Virtual Reality product environments.
Experience in physical product environments conducting research to drive ergonomics and physical design decisions.
Understanding of human physiology, human performance, visual processing, attentional demands, ergonomics, etc.

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