UX Researcher, YouTube Ads

2 Hours ago • 4-7 Years • Product Design

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Job Description

As a UX Researcher at YouTube Ads, you will be responsible for understanding user needs and influencing stakeholders to implement research-based solutions. You will own project priorities, oversee resource allocation, and drive improvements to products and services. Your work will involve conducting various research methods, such as interviews, usability testing, and data analysis, to gather insights into user behavior and motivations. You'll collaborate with UX designers, product managers, and engineers throughout the product development lifecycle, ensuring user needs are met and leading to the creation of delightful user experiences. The role requires strong analytical skills, effective communication, and the ability to work in a matrixed organization.
Must have:
  • Bachelor's degree or equivalent experience
  • 4+ years of applied research experience
  • Lead research projects
  • Influence stakeholders
  • Conduct various research methods
Good to have:
  • Master's or PhD in related field
  • 3 years of experience with executive leadership
  • Experience with a matrixed organization
Perks:
  • Bonus
  • Equity
  • Benefits
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Minimum qualifications:

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

Preferred qualifications:

  • Master's degree or PhD in Human-Computer Interaction, Cognitive Science, Statistics, Psychology, Anthropology, or 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 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.

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

  • 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, 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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$122.0K - $178.0K/yr (Outscal est.)
$150.0K/yr avg.
Worldwide

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A problem isn't truly solved until it's solved for all. Googlers build products that help create opportunities for everyone, whether down the street or across the globe. Bring your insight, imagination and a healthy disregard for the impossible. Bring everything that makes you unique. Together, we can build for everyone.

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