Minimum qualifications: - Bachelor's degree in Human-Computer Interaction, Cognitive Science, Statistics, Psychology, Anthropology, or a related field, or equivalent practical experience.
- 8 years of experience in an applied research setting, or similar.
- Experience in programming languages used for data manipulation and computational statistics (e.g., Python, R, MATLAB etc.)
- Experience cleaning, joining, and analyzing datasets with various types of data, logs, and surveys.
- Research or Industry experience in Artificial Intelligence, Machine Learning (ML) models, ML infrastructure, Natural Language Processing or Deep Learning.
Preferred qualifications: - Master's degree or PhD in Human-Computer Interaction, Cognitive Science, Statistics, Psychology, Anthropology, or related field.
- 8 years of experience conducting UX research on products.
- 7 years of experience working with executive leadership (e.g., Director level and above).
- Experience leveraging a range of qualitative and quantitative research methods and analysis techniques in various disciplinary environments.
- Ability to participate in technical discussions.
- Passion for AI technology and all of its possibilities.
About the job At Google, we "Focus on the user and all else will follow." As a User Experience Researcher (UXR), you make this possible. You will join our multi-disciplinary UX team, collaborating with Engineering and Product Management, to gather insights and create industry-leading products.
You'll play a critical role in helping your team understand user needs and will drive impact at all stages of product development, ensuring products are useful, usable, and helpful. You will explore user behaviors and motivations by conducting primary research, including: field studies, interviews, diary studies, ethnography, surveys, usability testing, and logs analysis. You will also grow within a supportive UXR community offering mentorship, regular meetups, and exclusive internal tools.
In this role, you will be a foundational technical leader embedded within the engineering and product teams. You will work at the intersection of data science and user experience to help the team navigate the rapidly evolving character and likeness landscape providing the research framework and technical depth necessary to understand user behaviors at scale and influence the long-term strategic roadmap.
At YouTube, we believe that everyone deserves to have a voice, and that the world is a better place when we listen, share, and build community through our stories. We work together to give everyone the power to share their story, explore what they love, and connect with one another in the process. Working at the intersection of cutting-edge technology and boundless creativity, we move at the speed of culture with a shared goal to show people the world. We explore new ideas, solve real problems, and have fun - and we do it all together.
Responsibilities - Influence stakeholders across functions to gain support for research-based, user-centric solutions.
Partner closely with other researchers, designers, product management, engineering and other cross-functional partners to achieve alignment, shared goals, and success. - Drive project priorities in alignment with larger project goals, and coordinate allocation of resources within the project. Identify opportunities to expand responsibilities within and across a product.
- Lead ideas to improve products and services through research-driven insights and recommendations.
- Drive teams to define and evaluate product, service, and ecosystem impact.
- Lead goals and strategy discussions through research by analyzing, consolidating, or synthesizing what is known about user, product, service, or business needs.
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