Staff UX Qualitative Researcher, Trust UX

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 Trust UX team is responsible for building durable, cross-Google solutions that enable products to easily provide coherent, compliant, and age-appropriate experiences that empower users to make meaningful and informed choices about their data.

In close collaboration with a UX design partner, you will own and drive foundational and exploratory research for consent, transparency, and age-assurance experiences. You will explore emerging trends and capabilities, develop opinionated perspectives on key topics, and operate as a thought-partner to leadership, product management, and executive UXers.

The Core team builds the technical foundation behind Google’s flagship products. We are owners and advocates for the underlying design elements, developer platforms, product components, and infrastructure at Google. These are the essential building blocks for excellent, safe, and coherent experiences for our users and drive the pace of innovation for every developer. We look across Google’s products to build central solutions, break down technical barriers and strengthen existing systems. As the Core team, we have a mandate and a unique opportunity to impact important technical decisions across the company.

The US base salary range for this full-time position is $189,000-$274,000 + bonus + equity + benefits. Our salary ranges are determined by role, level, and location. Within the range, individual pay is determined by work location and additional factors, including job-related skills, experience, and relevant education or training. Your recruiter can share more about the specific salary range for your preferred location during the hiring process.

Please note that the compensation details listed in US role postings reflect the base salary only, and do not include bonus, equity, or benefits. Learn more about benefits at Google.

Responsibilities

• Lead goal and strategy discussions by analyzing, consolidating, or synthesizing what is known about user, product, regulatory, and business needs.
• Understand and incorporate complex technical and business requirements into research, using qualitative insights to navigate complex product trade-offs, and balancing user needs with business objectives in a fast-paced, high-stakes environment.
• Actively challenge assumptions and the status quo by identifying critical knowledge gaps in the consent, transparency, and controls ecosystem, especially those relating to AI and age assurance.
• Conduct independent research on future-facing, conceptual and design-forward topics and bring research-driven insights and recommendations to product strategy discussions.
• Collaborate closely with a design partner to develop a comprehensive research and design strategy and innovative approaches to forward-looking solutions, prioritizing the most urgent business questions, and deliver memorable, executive-ready insights.

Minimum qualifications:

• Bachelor’s degree or equivalent practical experience.
• 8 years of experience in an applied research setting, or similar.
• 8 years of experience in primary research and analytics, specifically working with research techniques (e.g., qualitative and quantitative).

Preferred qualifications:

• 10 years of experience conducting UX research on products.
• 7 years of experience working with executive leadership (e.g., Director level and above).
• 5 years of experience managing projects, and working in a large, matrixed organization.

Note: By applying to this position you will have an opportunity to share your preferred working location from the following: New York, NY, USA; San Jose, CA, USA.