Senior UX Researcher, Advertising and Measurement

Senior UX Researcher, Advertising and Measurement

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Experience driving progress, solving problems, and mentoring more junior team members; deeper expertise and applied knowledge within relevant area.

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XNote: By applying to this position you will have an opportunity to share your preferred working location from the following: Mountain View, CA, USA; New York, NY, USA.

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 with research methods (e.g., usability, studies, contextual inquires, 1:1 interviews, unmoderated research studies).

• Experience in digital advertising, measurement space and business-to-business user research.

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.

In this role, you will serve as a strategic partner and cross-functional bridge builder. You will manage ambiguity and rally horizontal teams around user needs through energizing storytelling.

You will drive a wide range of research methodologies to solve complex, undefined problems and will communicate insights in ways that align diverse perspectives, inspire cross-functional collaboration, and drive user-centric product innovation.

Users come first at Google. Nowhere is this more important than on our Advertising and Commerce team: we believe that ads and commercial information can be highly useful to our users if that information is relevant to what our users wish to find or do. Advertisers worldwide use Google Ads to promote their products; publishers use Ad Sense to serve relevant ads on their website; and business around the world use our products (like Google Shopping, and Google Wallet) to support their online businesses and bring users into their offline stores. We are constantly innovating to deliver the most effective advertising and commerce opportunities of tomorrow.

Individual pay is determined by factors including job-related skills, experience, and relevant education or training.

US: $159000 - $231000 (USD) + 15% bonus target + bonus + equity + benefits

Learn more about benefits at Google.

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.

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