Staff Ux Quantitative Researcher, Search Ecosystem

Google Google · Big Tech · Mountain View, CA +2

This role is a Quantitative User Experience Researcher focused on the Search Ecosystem team. The primary responsibility is to investigate user behavior through empirical methods like logs analysis, survey research, and regression to drive impact at all stages of development. The role involves influencing stakeholders, owning project priorities, driving ideas for product improvement, leading teams to evaluate product/service/ecosystem impact, and owning strategy discussions through research. While the role operates within the context of Generative AI and its impact on information consumption and the web ecosystem, the core function is user research and product strategy, not direct AI/ML model development.

What you'd actually do

  1. Influence stakeholders across organizations to gain support for research-based, user-centric solutions.
  2. Own project priorities in alignment with larger product goals, and oversee allocation of resources within the project.
  3. Drive ideas to improve products and services through research-driven insights and recommendations.
  4. Lead teams to define and evaluate product, service, ecosystem impact.
  5. Own outlook and strategy discussions through research by analyzing, consolidating, or synthesizing what is known about user, product, service, or business needs.

Skills

Required

  • UX research design
  • statistical proficiency
  • programming skills
  • Python
  • R
  • MATLAB
  • C++
  • Java
  • Go
  • generative AI research
  • AI powered products research

Nice to have

  • Master’s degree or PhD in Human-Computer Interaction, Cognitive Science, Statistics, Psychology, Anthropology, or a related field
  • UX research on products
  • working with executive leadership
  • managing projects
  • working in a large, matrixed organization

What the JD emphasized

  • Experience conducting research for generative AI or AI powered products.