UX Research Lead, Google Home

$214,000 - $305,000/Yr

Google - Mountain View, CA

Full-time - Senior

Mountain View, CA

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About the position

The UX Research Lead for Google Home is responsible for guiding a team of researchers to influence product strategy and vision across the Home product portfolio. This role emphasizes the importance of user experience in product development, advocating for excellent research practices, and collaborating with cross-functional teams to ensure that research insights are integrated into product design and strategy. The position requires a strong leader who can mentor team members and drive innovative research initiatives that align with Google's mission to enhance user interactions with technology.

Responsibilities

• Advocate excellent research practices and generate awareness of the value, processes, and principles of UX research.
• Drive and execute research to influence product strategy and vision across the Home portfolio.
• Collaborate with cross-functional leadership to ensure research influences product experience and is leveraged for prioritization and alignment during product development cycles.
• Collaborate with teams across Google (Gemini, Android, Android Auto, etc.) to create alignment across different product areas to build consensus and vision.
• Manage senior level individual contributors and managers, providing leadership, strategic and tactical research direction.

Requirements

• Bachelor's degree in Human-Computer Interaction, Cognitive Science, Statistics, Psychology, Anthropology, related field, or equivalent practical experience.
• 10 years of experience in an applied research setting, or similar.
• 5 years of experience leading design projects and managing people or teams.

Nice-to-haves

• Master's degree or PhD in Human-Computer Interaction, Cognitive Science, Statistics, Psychology, Anthropology, or related field.
• 10 years of experience conducting UX research on products and working with executive leadership (e.g., Director level and above).
• 7 years of experience managing projects, and working in a large, matrixed organization.
• Experience developing, managing and executing multiple research roadmaps as a leader and manager, and ability to improve research operations and efficiency.
• Ability to connect research insights to brand, technical requirements, product vision and strategy from both pragmatic and strategic perspectives.
• Mentor and passionate about uplifting the user research team and discipline.

Benefits

• Base salary range of $214,000-$305,000 + bonus + equity + benefits.