Quantitative User Experience Researcher, Early Career 2024

$102,000 - $150,000/Yr

Google - Sunnyvale, CA

Full-time - Entry Level

Sunnyvale, CA

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About the position

The Quantitative User Experience Researcher (Quant UXR) role at Google focuses on understanding user needs and behaviors through empirical research methods. This position is integral to the UX team, which collaborates with designers, product managers, and engineers to create user-centered products. The role involves utilizing quantitative research methods to inform product development and enhance user experience, ensuring that user insights drive design and strategy decisions.

Responsibilities

• Collaborate with Designers, Product Managers, Engineers, and other UXRs to prioritize research opportunities.
• Advocate research findings to diverse audiences through written reports and in-person presentations with stakeholders.
• Design and conduct research using a variety of quantitative research methods.
• Conduct research on multiple aspects of products and collect/analyze user behavior through lab studies, field visits, ethnography, surveys, benchmark studies, server logs, and online experiments.
• Identify meaningful patterns and signals to provide coherent insights that can inform design/product/strategy decisions.
• Examine large-scale data (e.g., surveys, logs) to discover insights, generate hypotheses, and identify opportunities for better experiences.

Requirements

• Bachelor's degree in Human-Computer Interaction, Human Factors, Psychology, Computer Science, Cognitive Science, Information Science, Statistics, or a related field, or equivalent practical experience.
• Experience with quantitative research design utilizing various methods (e.g., descriptive statistics, multivariate data visualization, multivariate regression, bootstrap methods, logs analytics, and text analytics).
• Experience in Stata, C++, R, or Python.

Nice-to-haves

• Master's degree or PhD in Human Factors, Psychology, Human Computer Interaction, Cognitive Science, Computer Science, Information Science, or a related field, or equivalent practical experience.
• 1 year of experience in User Experience, Human factors, Human-Computer Interaction, applied research settings, or product research and development.
• Experience with data storytelling/communicating complex data analysis to general audiences.
• Knowledge of different research methods, and when/how to apply them during the product development process.
• Ability to communicate user research findings with cross-functional partners to drive impact.

Benefits

• Health insurance
• Dental insurance
• Vision insurance
• 401(k) plan with company matching
• Paid time off
• Parental leave
• Employee stock purchase plan
• Tuition reimbursement
• Professional development opportunities