UX Researcher, Search

Job Description

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Qualifications

Minimum qualifications:

• 7 years of related work experience in consumer insights or UX research
• Experience working with qualitative, quantitative, and creative research methodologies
• Experience working on product plans
• Ability to speak and write in Japanese fluently

Preferred qualifications:

• Excellent communication skills with the ability to present research findings
• Outstanding analytical, problem-solving, and critical-thinking skills

About the job

At Google, we follow a simple but vital premise: "Focus on the user and all else will follow." User Experience Researchers (UXRs) make this possible.
User Experience (UX) is made up of multi-disciplinary teams of Designers, Researchers, Writers, Content Strategists, Program Managers, and Engineers who care deeply about the people who use our products. We play an integral part in gathering insights about product user needs, attitudes, emotions, and behaviors to inspire and inform design. We collaborate closely with each other, engineering, and product management to create industry-leading products that deliver value for our users and Google’s businesses.
As a User Experience Researcher (UXR), you’ll help your team of UXers, product managers, and engineers understand user needs. You’ll play a critical role in creating useful, usable, and delightful products. Working with stakeholders across functions and levels, you'll have impact at all stages of product development. You’ll explore user behaviors and motivations by conducting primary research such as field studies, interviews, diary studies, participatory workshops, ethnography, surveys, usability testing, and logs analysis.
The UXR community at Google is unique and will help you do your best work. You’ll have the opportunity to work with and learn from UXRs across Google through regular meetups, mentor programs, and access to internal research tools.

As a UX Researcher, you will work closely with Product, Engineering, and Design teams, providing insights to determine how to create, evolve, and innovate our product to delight users with Search in the Japanese market.

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.”

Responsibilities

• Lead research activities, synthesize data, and craft deliverables that point to clear product actions
• Collaborate with product leadership to define and prioritize user experience research focus
• Participate in product discussions, design reviews, and strategic research planning
• Evaluate and ensure deliverables for product decisions
• Identify and execute on opportunities of improvement

Location

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