Google is hiring: Senior Mixed Methods UX Researcher, Ads Safety UX in New York

Senior Mixed Methods UX Researcher, Ads Safety UX

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

Minimum Qualifications

• Bachelor's degree or equivalent practical experience.
• 6 years of experience in an applied research setting (e.g., product or academic), or similar.
• Experience in Qualitative Research, Storytelling, Influencing, Collaboration, Project Management, Planning, User Research, Mixed Method Research, and Data Analysis.
• Experience applying a set of research methodologies (e.g., interviews, focus groups, field and lab studies, diary studies, and 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).
• Experience working with Google Ads or equivalent platforms and with Security and Privacy, Safety, and Legal teams.
• Experience managing concurrent programs and projects with excellent organization skills.
• Ability to guide partner teams and junior team members in strategy, research, alignment, and analysis.
• Ability to gather large data sets, documenting complex processes and scenarios, and delivering clear insights.

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.

We are the Ads Privacy and Safety UX team, dedicated to improving user trust. We protect consumers from harmful ads by strengthening enforcement, while helping advertisers navigate policies and correct errors, ensuring a safe and fair advertising ecosystem for all.

Google Ads is helping power the open internet with the best technology that connects and creates value for people, publishers, advertisers, and Google. We’re made up of multiple teams, building Google’s Advertising products including search, display, shopping, travel and video advertising, as well as analytics. Our teams create trusted experiences between people and businesses with useful ads. We help grow businesses of all sizes from small businesses, to large brands, to YouTube creators, with effective advertiser tools that deliver measurable results. We also enable Google to engage with customers at scale.

The US base salary range for this full-time position is $151,000–$222,000 + bonus + equity + benefits.

Responsibilities

• Lead and execute a comprehensive, mixed-methods research program from start to finish, covering everything from broad strategic topics to specific usability tests.
• Adopt a holistic, service-design approach to research, considering the entire user journey to create cohesive, safety-oriented solutions.
• Synthesize data from various sources to identify user needs and translate findings into compelling narratives and frameworks that drive product strategy.
• Partner with cross-functional teams including Product, Design, Engineering, and Legal to align on strategy and integrate user insights into the product development process.
• Advocate for user experience and research findings to a wide range of audiences, including executive leadership, through clear communication to influence product decisions.

Google is proud to be an equal opportunity workplace and is 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 also Google's EEO Policy and EEO is the Law. If you have a disability or special need that requires accommodation, please let us know by completing our Accommodations for Applicants form.

Seniority Level

Mid‑Senior level

Employment Type

Full-time

Job Function

Art/Creative, Design, and Engineering; Industries: Information Services and Technology, Information and Internet

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