User Experience Researcher Job in Mountain View, California US

User Experience Researcher - Mountain View

This position is based in Mountain View, CA.

The area: User Experience

We follow a simple but vital premise in the User Experience group: "Focus on the user and all else will follow." We're ardently interested in our users and strive to learn everything we can about their behaviors, attitudes and emotions to help define the products and experiences we create. The User Experience team is a critical driving force behind gathering these insights and then using them to inspire and inform design. We are a multi-disciplinary team of interaction designers, visual designers, user researchers, copywriters and Web developers who collaborate closely with each other and with engineering and product management to create innovative, usable, great-looking products that people love to use.

The role: User Experience Researcher

The User Experience Research team is a critical driving force behind design. Researchers are skilled in a wide range of quantitative and qualitative methodologies, such as design and analysis of live experiments, remote usability benchmarking, field studies, and other traditional user experience research methods. You will be responsible for all phases of the research process, from project conception, to implementation, to development of recommendations and evangelism. You will work closely with design, product, and engineering teams, and your findings will lead directly to making our users happier, the key to Google's success.

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