Staff UX Quantitative Researcher, Search Ecosystem

About the job

At Google, we "Focus on the user and all else will follow." As a Quantitative User Experience Researcher (Quant UXR), you make this possible. You will join a multi-disciplinary team, collaborating closely with Engineering and Product Management to create industry-leading, innovative products.

You will drive impact at all stages of development by investigating user behavior through empirical methods like logs analysis, survey research, and regression. We value diverse educational experiences—from Computer Science to Psychology—and require a blend of behavioral research design, statistical proficiency, and programming skills to uncover actionable insights. Beyond the work, you will grow within a supportive Quant UXR community offering mentorship, regular meetups, and exclusive internal tools to help you thrive.

The Search Ecosystem team is tasked with a critical, high-stakes mission: modernizing the digital value exchange to ensure a healthy, high-quality web in the age of Generative AI. As AI fundamentally changes how users consume information, this team sits at the intersection of consumer behavior, technical infrastructure, and creator incentives. We look at the holistic health of the web ecosystem to ensure that users, content creators, and AI-driven platforms grow together.

In Google Search, we're reimagining what it means to search for information – any way and anywhere. To do that, we need to solve complex engineering challenges and expand our infrastructure, while maintaining a universally accessible and useful experience that people around the world rely on. In joining the Search team, you'll have an opportunity to make an impact on billions of people globally.

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 outlook and strategy discussions through research by analyzing, consolidating, or synthesizing what is known about user, product, service, or business needs.