Senior UX Researcher, Android Extended Reality Developer API

About the position

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 Platforms and Ecosystems product area encompasses Google's various computing software platforms across environments (desktop, mobile, applications). The products provide enterprises, and ultimately end users, the ability to utilize and manage their services at scale. We build innovative and compelling software products-from apps to TVs, from laptops to phones-that have an impact on people's lives across the world.

Responsibilities

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

Requirements

• Bachelor's degree or equivalent practical experience.
• 5 years of experience in an applied research setting, or similar.
• 1 year of experience conducting research on developer tools, or APIs.

Nice-to-haves

• Master's degree or PhD in Human-Computer Interaction, Cognitive Science, Statistics, Psychology, Anthropology, or related field.
• 5 years of experience conducting UX research on products and working with executive leadership (e.g., Director level and above).
• 3 years of experience managing projects, and working in a changing organization.
• 2 years of experience with research in hardware or immersive technologies (e.g., Augmented Reality (AR), Virtual Reality (VR)).
• 2 years of experience in early-stage or emerging technologies.
• 1 year of experience with systems research connecting APIs to optimize technology stack performance and drive platform goals.

Benefits

• The US base salary range for this full-time position is $151,000-$222,000 + bonus + equity + benefits.
• Salary ranges are determined by role, level, and location.
• Individual pay is determined by work location and additional factors, including job-related skills, experience, and relevant education or training.