UX Researcher, Quantitative
Job Description
- Programming languages (data manipulation)
- Multivariate statistics
- Experimental design
- Experience with program management
- Consumer-focused research experience
- Bachelor's degree or equivalent experience
- 4+ years applied research experience
- Quantitative & qualitative research skills
- Data analysis & statistical knowledge
- Excellent communication skills
Minimum qualifications:
- Bachelor's degree or equivalent practical experience.
- 4 years of experience in an applied research setting, or similar.
Preferred qualifications:
- Experience with programming languages used for data manipulation and computational statistics for data sets.
- Experience with command of research questions within a given domain, and of technical tools for the analysis of data within that field.
- Experience owning and delivering consumer focused quantitative research or data science solutions and driving results.
- Experience with program management working on multiple different research efforts or projects.
- Experience in multivariate statistics and the design of experiments.
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.
The Google Pixel team focuses on designing and delivering the world's most helpful mobile experience. The team works on shaping the future of Pixel devices and services through some of the most advanced designs, techniques, products, and experiences in consumer electronics. This includes bringing together the best of Google’s artificial intelligence, software, and hardware to build global smartphones and create transformative experiences for users across the world.
Responsibilities
- Identify, define, measure, and optimize the factors that drive positive Pixel experiences.
- Design, conduct, and analyze research to understand consumer needs, values, and quality expectations through quantitative and qualitative methods and analysis.
- Connect behavioral data with survey data, extract patterns from data sets to answer core business questions and inform product decisions at scale.
- Apply statistical, scientific, and qualitative knowledge to produce findings.
- Work and communicate through reports and presentations in partnership with fast-paced cross-functional teams focused on speed and excellence.
