Join Google's multi-disciplinary UX team as a Senior Qualitative UX Researcher for YouTube. You'll collaborate with Engineering and Product Management to gather insights and craft industry-leading products. Your role is crucial in understanding user needs, driving product development, and ensuring our products are useful, usable, and helpful.

Explore user behaviors and motivations through primary research, including field studies, interviews, diary studies, ethnography, surveys, usability testing, and log analysis. You'll benefit from a supportive UXR community offering mentorship and exclusive internal tools.

This position involves working at the intersection of cutting-edge technology and creativity. At YouTube, we empower everyone to share their voice, explore their passions, and connect with others. We move at the speed of culture, striving to show people the world by exploring new ideas, solving real problems, and having fun together.

Influence stakeholders across various organizations to champion research-based, user-centric solutions.

Take ownership of project priorities, aligning them with broader product goals, and manage resource allocation within projects.

Drive product and service improvements by leveraging research-driven insights and recommendations.

Lead teams in defining and evaluating the impact of products, services, and the overall ecosystem.

Shape direction and strategy discussions through in-depth research, synthesizing knowledge about user, product, service, or business needs.

A Bachelor's degree or equivalent practical experience is required.

Six years of experience in an applied research setting, such as product development or academia, is essential.

Demonstrated experience with a variety of research methodologies, including usability studies, contextual inquiries, one-on-one interviews, and unmoderated research.

Preferred qualifications include a Master's degree or PhD in a relevant field like Human-Computer Interaction, Cognitive Science, Statistics, Psychology, or Anthropology. Additionally, five years of experience conducting UX research on products and interacting with executive leadership, plus three years of project management experience within a large, matrixed organization, are highly valued.