At Google, we follow a simple but vital premise: "Focus on the user and all else will follow." Quantitative User Experience Researchers 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 attitudes, emotions, needs, 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 Quantitative User Experience Researcher (Quant UXR), you’ll help inform your team of UXers, product managers, and engineers about user needs. You’ll play a critical role in creating useful, usable, and delightful products. You’ll work with stakeholders across functions and levels and have impact at all stages of product development. You will investigate user behavior and user needs using empirical research methods such as logs analysis, survey research, path modeling, and regression analysis. Quant UXRs vary in background and use skills from computer science, quantitative social science, econometrics, data science, survey research, psychology, human-computer interaction, and other fields. You’ll combine skills in behavioral research design, statistical methods, and general programming to improve user experience. The Quantitative UXR community at Google 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. Google Photos is a photo sharing and storage service developed by Google. Photos is one of the most sought after products at Google and is looking for both client-side (web and mobile), with server-side (search, storage, serving) and machine intelligence (learning, computer vision) Software Engineers. We are dedicated to making Google experiences centered around the user.
Locations
Mountain View, CA, USA
Cambridge, MA, USA
Los Angeles, CA, USA
New York, NY, USA
San Francisco, CA, USA
Salary
Salary not disclosed
Skills Required
R or Pythonintermediate
data manipulationintermediate
computational statisticsintermediate
modelingintermediate
programming languages (Python, R, MATLAB, C++, Java, Go)intermediate
data visualizationintermediate
evaluating machine learning modelsintermediate
multivariate statisticsintermediate
design of experimentsintermediate
SQLintermediate
Required Qualifications
Bachelor's degree or equivalent practical experience (degree)
4 years of experience in product research in an applied research setting, or similar (experience)
2 years of experience with R or Python in data manipulation, computational statistics, and modeling (experience)
Master's degree or PhD in Human-Computer Interaction, Cognitive Science, Statistics, Psychology, Anthropology, or related field (degree)
3 years of experience working with senior leadership (e.g., Director level and above) (experience)
2 years of experience conducting UX research on products, managing projects, and working in a changing organization (experience)
Responsibilities
Define and measure quantitative UX goals and metrics in collaboration with Designers, Qualitative Researchers, Data Scientists, Engineers, and Program Managers.
Develop code and statistical models to understand user experience.
Conduct empirical research using methods from computer science, quantitative social science, statistics, econometrics, and other fields to understand user behavior and extract meaningful patterns from data sets.
Design and field scaled surveys to gather valid and reliable data based on different stimuli.
Develop code to retrieve, clean, and analyze data sets.
Benefits
bonus: Bonus included in compensation
equity: Equity included in compensation
general: Benefits package (details available from recruiter)