Staff User Experience Researcher, YouTube Ads
Description For Staff User Experience Researcher, YouTube Ads
YouTube Ads is seeking a Staff User Experience Researcher to join their team in shaping the future of advertising on the platform. This role sits at the intersection of user research, data analysis, and strategic product development, making it an exciting opportunity for experienced researchers.
The position involves working with YouTube's advertising ecosystem, which powers the platform by maintaining its free access for users while ensuring responsible creator rewards and effective business-audience connections. As a Staff UX Researcher, you'll be part of Google's larger UX team, collaborating with designers, writers, content strategists, program managers, and engineers.
Your primary focus will be conducting comprehensive user research through various methodologies including field studies, interviews, diary studies, participatory workshops, ethnography, surveys, usability testing, and logs analysis. The insights you gather will directly influence product development and strategic decisions.
The role offers significant impact potential, working with executive leadership and cross-functional teams to drive user-centric solutions. You'll be responsible for creating frameworks for advertiser decision-making workflows and contributing to the vision and strategy of YouTube's advertising products.
The position comes with competitive compensation ($168,000-$252,000 base salary) plus bonus, equity, and benefits. You'll be part of Google's unique UXR community, with access to mentorship programs, regular meetups, and internal research tools. This is an excellent opportunity for someone with strong research experience who wants to impact how millions of users, creators, and advertisers interact with YouTube's platform.
The ideal candidate should have 8+ years of experience in applied research, strong technical skills in data analysis, and the ability to influence stakeholders at all levels. If you're passionate about user experience, data-driven decision making, and want to shape the future of digital advertising, this role offers the perfect blend of research, strategy, and impact.
Responsibilities For Staff User Experience Researcher, YouTube Ads
- 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
- Drive ideas to improve products and services through research-driven insights and recommendations
- Own vision and strategy discussions through research by analyzing user, product, service, or business needs
- Create and drive frameworks of advertiser decision making workflows
Requirements For Staff User Experience Researcher, YouTube Ads
- Bachelor's degree in Human-Computer Interaction, Cognitive Science, Statistics, Psychology, Anthropology, related field, or equivalent practical experience
- 8 years of experience in an applied research setting, or similar
- Experience in programming languages used for data manipulation and computational statistics (e.g., Python, R, MATLAB, C++, Java, or Go)
- Master's degree or PhD preferred
- 8 years of experience conducting UX research on products preferred
- 7 years of experience working with executive leadership preferred
- 5 years of experience managing projects and working in large organizations preferred
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