Google

Senior UX Researcher, Search Ads

Google$159K — $231K *
Consumer Technology
5 - 7 years of experience
Job Overview by Ladders

Qualifications

  • Bachelor's degree or equivalent practical experience.
  • 6 years of experience in an applied research setting.
  • Proficient in research methods including usability studies and contextual inquiries.
  • Master's degree or PhD in a related field is preferred.
  • 5 years of experience conducting UX research for executive leadership.
  • 3 years managing projects in a large organization.

Responsibilities

  • Conduct and lead user research to inform product strategy and improvements.
  • Drive user-centric approaches and collaborate to address strategic constraints.
  • Build consensus and support for user-focused solutions through research insights.
  • Analyze and create metrics to assess product impact and user satisfaction.
  • Plan and execute strategic research to inform business decisions and goals.

Benefits

  • Access to a supportive UX research community including mentorship.
  • Opportunities for regular meetups and networking within the company.
  • Exclusive access to internal tools and resources.
Full Job Description
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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 a related field.
  • 5 years of experience conducting UX research on products and working with executive leadership (e.g., Director level and above).
  • 3 years of experience managing projects, and working in a large, cross-functional organization.


About the job

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.

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

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

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Responsibilities
  • Conduct and lead research to identify user needs and business opportunities that guide product/service strategy, improvements and business goals.
  • Drive user-centric thinking to influence partners and collaboratively solve constraints in strategy, product or technology.
  • Build consensus and influence the team to gain support for research-based, user-centric solutions, and communicate research insights and recommendations to partners.
  • Identify, create and use key insights and metrics to evaluate product, service and ecosystem impact.
  • Contribute to developing project priorities in alignment with larger project goals, and coordinate allocation of resources within the project. Identify a research program by planning, designing and engaging in strategic and tactical research that informs the product/service/business.


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About Google

Google is a multinational technology company that specializes in Internet-related services and products. These include online advertising technologies, search engine, cloud computing, software, and hardware. Google was founded in 1998 by Larry Page and Sergey Brin while they were Ph.D. students at Stanford University. The company has grown tremendously since then and has become one of the most valuable companies in the world. Google's mission is to organize the world's information and make it universally accessible and useful.
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156,500 employees
Market Cap
$1,115.4 billion
Industry
Net Income
$40.2 billion
Founded
1998
5 Year Trend
+23.3%
Revenue
$182.5 billion
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