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Staff Driver Safety UX Researcher, Android for Auto

Google · San Jose, CA, USA

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.

User experience is at the forefront of how we create intuitive, innovative, and beautiful products that people love. We strive to learn and understand our users’ needs, behaviors, and emotions to gather insights that inform product strategy and design. Our UX teams include designers, researchers, content strategists, and engineers who are passionate about quality, usability, and simplicity. We work on collaborative teams to solve complex challenges and craft experiences that highlight our products’ unique capabilities and personalities. Our work touches billions while exemplifying a key principle that is core to Google’s philosophy: “Focus on the user and all else will follow.”

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

US: $188000 - $275000 (USD) + 20% bonus target + equity + benefits

Learn more about benefits at Google.

Minimum qualifications:

  • Bachelor’s degree or equivalent practical experience.
  • 8 years of experience in an applied research setting, or similar.
  • Experience with safety-focused research programs.
  • Experience with automotive human factors principles, advanced research methodologies

Preferred qualifications:

  • Master's degree or PhD in human-computer interaction, cognitive science, statistics, psychology, anthropology, or a related field.
  • 7 years of experience working with executive leadership (e.g., Director level and above).
  • 5 years of experience managing projects, and working in a changing organization.
  • Experience with safety relevant development processes (e.g., automotive).

Design pay context

Based on 675 disclosed Design salaries on RoleSuite, the role pays a median of $167K/year, with most offers between $125K and $198K (10th–90th percentile: $95K–$237K).

This posting lists $188K–$275K, above the $167K market median.

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