Senior Qualitative UX Researcher, Youtube

Minimum qualifications:

• Bachelor's degree or equivalent practical experience.

• 6 years of experience 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).

• 3 years of experience managing projects, and working in a large, matrixed organization.

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 collaborate closely with Program Managers, Engineers, UX Researchers, Data Science, Marketing and other cross-functional teams to drive multiple projects in a fluid environment. We are looking for an experienced UX Researcher (UXR) who is passionate about working with and analyzing surveys, uncovering qualitative insights, and implementing methods and AI tools to gather user needs and insights fast at scale. You will be driving the research agenda in close collaboration with cross-functional for Channel Memberships. This role is part of a team of Fan Funding UXers which also includes Paid Digital Goods in addition to Channel Memberships.At YouTube, we believe that everyone deserves to have a voice, and that the world is a better place when we 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 organizations to gain support for research-based, user-centric solutions.

• Own project priorities in alignment with larger 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 direction and strategy discussions through research by analyzing, consolidating, or synthesizing what is known about user, product, service, or business needs.