UX Researcher, YouTube Main App

3 Months ago • 4-4 Years • Product Design • UI/UX Design • $122,000 PA - $178,000 PA

Job Summary

Job Description

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.
Must have:
  • Bachelor's degree or equivalent practical experience
  • 4 years of experience in an applied research setting
  • Experience in working on UX research products for consumers
  • Design, plan and execute high-quality research
  • Build intuition around user needs and shape the direction of features
  • Answer diverse research questions
  • Own research roadmaps across a full feature life-cycle
  • Manage ongoing research programs
  • Advocate for user needs in cross-functional forums
Good to have:
  • Master's degree or PhD in Human-Computer Interaction
  • 3 years of experience working with executive leadership
  • 2 years of experience conducting UX research on products
  • Understanding of consumer video products
  • Familiarity with advanced data analysis approaches and tools
  • Familiarity with surveys/experimental design and analysis

Job Details

Minimum qualifications:

  • Bachelor's degree or equivalent practical experience.
  • 4 years of experience in an applied research setting, or similar.
  • Experience in working on UX research products for consumers.

Preferred qualifications:

  • Master's degree or PhD in Human-Computer Interaction, Cognitive Science, Statistics, Psychology, Anthropology, or a related field.
  • 3 years of experience working with executive leadership (e.g., Director level and above).
  • 2 years of experience conducting UX research on products, managing projects, and working in a large, matrixed organization.
  • Understanding of consumer video products.
  • Familiarity with advanced data analysis approaches and tools (e.g., R, Python).
  • Familiarity with surveys/experimental design and analysis.

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.

At YouTube, we believe that everyone deserves to have a voice, and that the world is a better place when we listen, share, and build community through our stories. We work together to give everyone the power to share their story, explore what they love, and connect with one another in the process. Working at the intersection of cutting-edge technology and boundless creativity, we move at the speed of culture with a shared goal to show people the world. We explore new ideas, solve real problems, and have fun — and we do it all together.

The US base salary range for this full-time position is $122,000-$178,000 + bonus + equity + benefits. Our salary ranges are determined by role, level, and location. The range displayed on each job posting reflects the minimum and maximum target salaries for the position across all US locations. 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

  • Design, plan and execute high-quality research that uncovers actionable insights to improve the viewer experience. Build intuition around user needs and shape the direction of features.
  • Answer diverse research questions, drawing from a variety of methodological approaches and tools from usability tests, interviews and surveys to remote unmoderated research.
  • Own research roadmaps across a full feature life-cycle, providing foundational and generative insights to establish viewer needs and evaluative research to identify and address issues.
  • Manage ongoing research programs that allow research insights to efficiently scale across Main App’s platforms.
  • Advocate for user needs in cross-functional forums and craft convincing narratives and presentations that increase user understanding and drive viewer impact.

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