Job Description

Google will be prioritizing applicants who have a current right to work in Singapore, and do not require Google\'s sponsorship of a visa.

Minimum qualifications:

• Bachelor\'s degree in Human-Computer Interaction, Cognitive Science, Psychology, Anthropology, related field, or equivalent practical experience.
  
• 5 years of experience in UX, Human-Computer Interaction, applied research, or product research/development.
  
• Experience in research design utilizing methods, usability studies, contextual inquiry, and surveys.
  
• Product research experience in an end-to-end, usability, or generative setting.

Preferred qualifications:

• Experience conducting research and balancing needs of customers/users.
  
• Experience integrating user research into product designs and design practices.
  
• Experience building products for diverse audiences including research for accessibility needs.

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.

Google User Experience (UX) is made up of multi-disciplinary teams of UX Designers, Researchers, Writers, Content Strategists, Program Managers, and Engineers: we care deeply about the people who use our products. The UX team plays an integral part in gathering insights about the needs, attitudes, emotions, and behaviors of people who use our products to inspire and inform design. We collaborate closely with each other and with engineering and product management to create industry-leading products that deliver value for the people who use them, and for Google\xe2\x80\x99s businesses.

As a User Experience Researcher (UXR), you\xe2\x80\x99ll help your team of UXers, product managers, and engineers understand user needs. You\xe2\x80\x99ll work with stakeholders across functions and levels and have impact at all stages of product development. You\xe2\x80\x99ll play a critical role in creating useful, usable, and delightful products. You\xe2\x80\x99ll 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\xe2\x80\x99ll have the opportunity to work with and learn from UXRs across Google through regular meetups, mentor programs, and access to internal research tools. 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\xe2\x80\x99 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\xe2\x80\x99 unique capabilities and personalities. Our work touches billions while exemplifying a key principle that is core to Google\xe2\x80\x99s philosophy: \xe2\x80\x9cFocus on the user and all else will follow.\xe2\x80\x9d