Minimum qualifications:

• 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.
  
• Experience in both qualitative and quantitative research methodologies, including interviews, usability testing, diary studies, card sort, or surveys.

Preferred qualifications:

• Master's degree or PhD in Human-Computer Interaction, Cognitive Science, Statistics, Psychology, Anthropology, or related field.
  
• 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.
  

About the job

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.

As part of the Lens team within Multimodal Search, we are evolving the Search experience to allow users to ask anything in any way. In this role, you will influence product strategy through this evolution to a more Multimodal, AI-forward experience. You will focus on Multimodal AI quality and model improvements anchored in real user needs and measurements, while also leading product evolution towards a collaborative AI shopping experience.

In Google Search, we're reimagining what it means to search for information – any way and anywhere. To do that, we need to solve complex engineering challenges and expand our infrastructure, while maintaining a universally accessible and useful experience that people around the world rely on. In joining the Search team, you'll have an opportunity to make an impact on billions of people globally.

Responsibilities

• Influence stakeholders across organizations to gain support for research-based, user-centric solutions.
• Own project priorities in alignment with larger 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.