Please submit your resume in English - we can only consider applications submitted in this language.

Minimum qualifications:

• Bachelor's degree in Human-Computer Interaction, Cognitive Science, Statistics, Psychology, Anthropology, related field, or equivalent practical experience.

• 8 years of experience in an applied research setting, or similar.

• Experience with Qualitative Research, Statistical Analysis, and UX Research.

• Include a portfolio, website, or any other relevant link to your work in your resume (providing a viewable link or access instructions).

Preferred qualifications:

• Experience in identifying opportunities for product and business improvement and measuring the success of those initiatives communicating deliverables and visual/data presentations.

• Experience with multivariate statistics and the design of experiments.

• Experience in identifying opportunities for product and business improvement.

• Experience with command of research questions, and of technical tools for the analysis of data within that field.

• Ability to lead research projects involving multiple researchers/stakeholders with impact on product ideas and strategy.

• Ability to deliver results in an ambiguous environment and processes into simple, clear user interactions.

At Google, Visual Designers weave iconography, typography, color, space and texture together to help our users successfully navigate our products. We believe that all of our products should be beautiful and accessible. As a Visual Designer, you’ll delight users with designs that inspire, engage and excite them. You’ll rely on user-centered design principles to produce high-quality visuals—from concept to execution—across many platforms. Like all of our UX jobs, you’ll collaborate with your fellow designers to constantly refine the Google design language and create innovative, great-looking products that people love to use.

As a UX Researcher, you will lead a quantitative and data analytics research program, improving the experience for all types of users. You will lead program, workshops, and co-creation projects, working and aligning key partners across functions and levels. You will also solve challenging problems and empower the team to move forward by developing metrics, measuring results, and integrating new methodologies into existing systems. In this role, you will identify and quantify problems and embark on new research areas through innovative methods.

User experience is at the forefront of how we create intuitive, innovative, and beautiful products that people love. We strive to learn and understand our users’ needs, behaviors, and emotions to gather insights that inform product strategy and design. Our UX teams include designers, researchers, content strategists, and engineers who are passionate about quality, usability, and simplicity. We work on collaborative teams to solve complex challenges and craft experiences that highlight our products’ unique capabilities and personalities. Our work touches billions while exemplifying a key principle that is core to Google’s philosophy: “Focus on the user and all else will follow.”

• Create understanding around user needs by conducting primary research, exploring the behaviors and motivations of the project’s users through methods like field visits, ethnography, surveys, usability testing, and logs analysis.

• Gather research needs and current user knowledge analyzing, documenting, and sharing findings, and deliver compelling, written in-person and visual presentations.

• Create preliminary research roadmap and options and align on approach with research sponsors.

• Perform research activities (e.g., interview, write script, recruit users, schedule, perform sessions, survey, develop script, program survey, test, soft launch, launch).

• Translate insights and findings into useful interface needs and gaps, helping designers and teams to concept and ideate based on user's realities.

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 https://careers.google.com/eeo/ and https://careers.google.com/jobs/dist/legal/OFCCPEEOPost.pdf If you have a need that requires accommodation, please let us know by completing our Accommodations for Applicants form: https://goo.gl/forms/aBt6Pu71i1kzpLHe2.