Senior UX Researcher, Google Kubernetes Engine

2 Weeks ago • 5-8 Years • Product Design • $151,000 PA - $222,000 PA

Job Summary

Job Description

As a Senior UX Researcher at Google Kubernetes Engine, you'll play a critical role in understanding user needs and shaping product development. You'll collaborate with UX designers, product managers, and engineers to create user-centric solutions. Responsibilities include influencing stakeholders, prioritizing projects, driving product improvements through research insights, leading teams to evaluate product impact, and owning strategic discussions based on user, product, and business needs. You'll employ various research methods like interviews, usability testing, and data analysis to gain a deep understanding of user behaviors and motivations. The role requires strong collaboration skills, experience working in a large organization, and a passion for creating exceptional user experiences.
Must have:
  • Bachelor's degree or equivalent experience
  • 5+ years experience in applied research
  • Experience with enterprise software research
  • Influence stakeholders for user-centric solutions
  • Lead projects and allocate resources
Good to have:
  • Master's/PhD in HCI, Cognitive Science etc.
  • Experience working with executive leadership
  • Project management experience in a large organization
Perks:
  • Bonus
  • Equity
  • Benefits

Job Details

Minimum qualifications:

  • Bachelor's degree or equivalent practical experience.
  • 5 years of experience in an applied research setting, or similar.
  • Experience in research enterprise/business software, developer tools, IT, or other software systems.

Preferred qualifications:

  • Master's degree or PhD in Human-Computer Interaction, Cognitive Science, Statistics, Psychology, Anthropology, or related field.
  • 5 years of experience conducting User Experience (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 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.

Google Cloud accelerates every organization’s ability to digitally transform its business and industry. We deliver enterprise-grade solutions that leverage Google’s cutting-edge technology, and tools that help developers build more sustainably. Customers in more than 200 countries and territories turn to Google Cloud as their trusted partner to enable growth and solve their most critical business problems.

The US base salary range for this full-time position is $151,000-$222,000 + bonus + equity + benefits. Our salary ranges are determined by role, level, and location. Within the range, individual pay is determined by work location and additional factors, including job-related skills, experience, and relevant education or training. Your recruiter can share more about the specific salary range for your preferred location during the hiring process.

Please note that the compensation details listed in US role postings reflect the base salary only, and do not include bonus, equity, or benefits. Learn more about .

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 motivated insights and recommendations.
  • Lead teams to define and evaluate product, service, and ecosystem impact.
  • Own goals and strategy discussions through research by analyzing, consolidating, or synthesizing what is known about user, product, service, or business needs.

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