Lead Quantitative UX Researcher — Product Impact

Google; Mountain View (CA); On-site; USD 236,000 - 329,000; Full time

Job summary

Google is seeking a Quantitative User Experience Researcher to join a multi-disciplinary team working closely with Engineering and Product Management to create industry-leading products.

You will drive impact by investigating user behavior through empirical methods like logs analysis, surveys, and regression, applying diverse educational backgrounds from Computer Science to Psychology, and combining behavioral research with programming skills to uncover actionable insights.

Qualifications

• Bachelor's degree or equivalent practical experience.
• 10 years of experience in an applied research setting, or similar.
• Experience in programming languages used for data manipulation and computational statistics (e.g., Python, R, MATLAB, C++, Java, or Go).
• Experience with survey data (e.g., attitudes and perceptions) and behavioral data (e.g., usage data and interactions).
• Experience with experimental design.

Responsibilities

• Set and drive an ambitious research agenda on how users experience and interact with our products. Draw on your own and the team's expertise across a variety of areas (e.g., survey science, behavioral science, logs analysis, AI, vision science, qualitative research).
• Work closely with PM, Design, and Engineering leadership to prioritize the right research, mapped against product and business objectives.
• Advocate for UXR and contribute to a more evidence-based culture in UX.
• Demonstrate excellent scientific and statistical judgement, producing rigorous insights in a changing environment, and setting a high technical standard for the broader community of UXRs.
• Leverage a mix of methods and data sources, such as live-traffic experiments, logs analysis, in-product surveys, and interactive prototype experiments.

Skills

Applied research experience

Programming languages for data science

Survey data analysis

Behavioral data analysis

Experimental design

Education

Bachelor's degree or equivalent practical experience

Master's degree or PhD in related field

Tools

Python, R, MATLAB, C++, Java, Go

Job description

Google is seeking a Quantitative User Experience Researcher to join a multi-disciplinary team working closely with Engineering and Product Management to create industry-leading products.

You will drive impact by investigating user behavior through empirical methods like logs analysis, surveys, and regression, applying diverse educational backgrounds from Computer Science to Psychology, and combining behavioral research with programming skills to uncover actionable insights.