Senior UX Researcher, LearnX

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.

As a Senior UX Researcher on the LearnX team, you will lead research to identify product opportunities for learners across Gemini, NotebookLM, Labs, and YouTube. Your work will advance GenAI investments for students and guide the user experience.

Learning is the ongoing quest for understanding, and we made it our mission
more than 20 years ago to organize the world’s information to make it
universally accessible and useful. The learning landscape is changing, and
the Learning and Education team's mission is to help everyone in the world
learn anything in the world. We provide the information, tools, and
services that help people gain knowledge, fuel curiosity, and prepare for
what’s next. We focus our work to add the most value for users to enable
learning for school, work, and life. We believe everyone can and should
have access to quality learning experiences to reach their full potential.

Individual pay is determined by factors including job-related skills, experience, and relevant education or training.

US: $159000 - $231000 (USD) + 15% bonus target + bonus + equity + benefits

Learn more about benefits at Google.

Minimum qualifications:

• Bachelor's degree or equivalent practical experience.
• 6 years of experience in an applied research setting (e.g., product or academic), or similar.
• Experience with research methods (e.g., usability, studies, contextual inquires, 1:1 interviews, unmoderated research studies).

Preferred qualifications:

• 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).
• Experience with large-scale surveys design and analysis.
• Experience working with educational products.
• Experience working with cross-functional teams.
• Excellent people management, communication, and collaboration skills.