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Staff UX Researcher, YouTube Ads
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.
About Google Ads
Google Ads is helping power the open internet with the best technology that connects and creates value for people, publishers, advertisers, and Google. We’re made up of multiple teams, building Google’s Advertising products including search, display, shopping, travel and video advertising, as well as analytics. Our teams create trusted experiences between people and businesses with useful ads. We help grow businesses of all sizes from small businesses, to large brands, to YouTube creators, with effective advertiser tools that deliver measurable results. We also enable Google to engage with customers at scale.
Responsibilities
- Influence stakeholders across organizations to gain support for research-based, user-centric solutions.
- Own project priorities in alignment with product goals, and oversee allocation of resources within the project.
- Drive ideas to improve products and services through research-driven insights and recommendations.
- Lead teams to define and evaluate product, service, ecosystem impact.
- Own goal and strategy discussions through research by analyzing, consolidating, or synthesizing what is known about user, product, service, or business needs.
Key skills/competency
- User Research
- Product Development
- Qualitative Research
- Quantitative Research
- Stakeholder Management
- Product Strategy
- UX Design
- Ethnography
- Usability Testing
- Research Methods
How to Get Hired at Google
- Tailor your resume: Highlight 8 years of applied research experience and 4 years integrating research into product design.
- Showcase leadership: Emphasize 7 years of executive engagement and 5 years project/matrix management.
- Demonstrate impact: Provide examples of driving product improvements through research insights.
- Prepare for interviews: Be ready to discuss your research process and influencing strategies.
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