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Senior UX Researcher

Google

Google

Design
Warsaw, Poland
Posted on Tuesday, May 23, 2023

Qualifications

Minimum qualifications:

  • Experience in research enterprise/business software, developer tools, IT, or other software systems.
  • Experience in leading research efforts, and integrating user research into product designs and design practices.

Preferred qualifications:

  • Knowledge of the standard guideline of experimental design and statistics.
  • Ability to communicate concepts clearly across different audiences and varying levels of the organization.
  • Ability to help the team transform insight and product decisions.

About the job

At Google, we follow a simple but vital premise: "Focus on the user and all else will follow." User Experience Researchers (UXRs) make this possible.

Google User Experience (UX) is made up of multi-disciplinary teams of UX Designers, Researchers, Writers, Content Strategists, Program Managers, and Engineers: we care deeply about the people who use our products. The UX team plays an integral part in gathering insights about the needs, attitudes, emotions, and behaviors of people who use our products to inspire and inform design. We collaborate closely with each other and with engineering and product management to create industry-leading products that deliver value for the people who use them, and for Google’s businesses.

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 explore user behaviors and motivations by conducting primary research such as field studies, interviews, diary studies, participatory workshops, ethnography, surveys, usability testing, and logs 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.”

Responsibilities

  • Create and execute UX research strategy, including identifying new opportunities for research and executing.
  • Advocate for research findings to diverse audiences through written reports, verbal presentations, identify to be most effective.
  • Deliver by advocating for the user in key business decisions.
  • Provide user-focused point-of-view in product discussions, design reviews, and research planning.
  • Contribute with other teams across Cloud UX and to a vibrant and supportive team culture.

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We welcome and encourage people who are expecting and/or parents-to-be to apply to this or any other role at Google.

Google is a global company and, in order to facilitate efficient collaboration and communication globally, English proficiency is a requirement for all roles.