Senior UX Researcher, Ads Privacy and Safety Job at Google in Seattle

Overview

Senior UX Researcher, Ads Privacy and Safety at Google – join to apply for this role. Location options include New York, NY, Mountain View, CA, and Seattle, WA.

Minimum qualifications

• Bachelor's degree or equivalent practical experience.
• 6 years of experience in product research in an applied research setting, or similar.

Preferred qualifications

• Experience with research design utilizing various methods (e.g., usability studies, contextual inquiry, surveys, etc.).
• Experience in partnering with User Experience Design (UXD) and cross-functional teams to amplify research and improve the user experience.
• Experience with User Experience Research (UXR) to influence strategic decision making, communicate strategic concepts, facilitate understanding and shape product strategy.
• Knowledge of user trust, privacy or digital marketing/Ads.
• Ability to lead, collaborate and influence in a highly matrixed and ambiguous space.
• Excellent communication skills with the ability to articulate positions and respectfully challenge partners and stakeholders with new product design thinking.

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 UX is made up of multidisciplinary teams of UX Designers, Researchers, Writers, Content Strategists, Program Managers, and Engineers. We care deeply about the people who use our products and collaborate with engineering and product management to create industry-leading products that deliver value for people and Google’s businesses.

As a User Experience Researcher (UXR), you’ll help your team understand user needs, work with stakeholders across functions, and have impact at all stages of product development. You’ll conduct primary research such as field studies, interviews, diary studies, participatory workshops, ethnography, surveys, usability testing, and logs analysis to explore user behaviors and motivations.

You’ll have opportunities to learn from UXRs across Google through regular meetups, mentor programs, and access to internal research tools. In this role, you will drive user-centric product strategies and solutions to scale across Google Ads.

Google Ads powers the open internet by connecting people, publishers, advertisers, and Google. Our teams build advertising products across search, display, shopping, travel, and video, delivering trusted experiences and measurable results for businesses of all sizes.

The US base salary range for this full-time position is $151,000-$222,000 plus bonus, equity, and benefits. Salary ranges are determined by role, level, and location. Your recruiter can share the specific range for your location during the hiring process. Compensation details listed reflect base salary only and do not include bonus, equity, or benefits.

Responsibilities

• Scope, conduct, and analyze research to understand user needs, behaviors, and goals through rigorous mixed-method approaches (qualitative and large-scale quantitative surveys) to generate deep and actionable insights.
• Build relationships with cross-functional UX partners to identify knowledge gaps and synthesize insights to illuminate key user needs and perceptions.
• Work with design and UX content design to ensure research insights translate into validated design concepts and cohesive product strategies.
• Develop research that feeds into the broader team's measurement strategies to assess impact.
• Design the UXR practice to drive human-centric solutions and to support strategic conversations in complex spaces.

EEO and accommodations

Google is proud to be an equal opportunity workplace and an affirmative action employer. We are committed to equal employment opportunity regardless of race, color, ancestry, religion, sex, national origin, sexual orientation, age, citizenship, marital status, disability, gender identity, or Veteran status. We also consider qualified applicants regardless of criminal histories, consistent with legal requirements. See Google’s EEO Policy and EEO is the Law. If you require accommodation, please let us know by completing our Accommodations for Applicants form.