Senior Quantitative UX Researcher, Material Design

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.

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’ 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’ unique capabilities and personalities. Our work touches billions while exemplifying a key principle that is core to Google’s philosophy: “Focus on the user and all else will follow.”Individual pay is determined by factors including job-related skills, experience, and relevant education or training.

Germany: €112000 - €115000 (EUR) + 15% bonus target + equity + benefits

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Responsibilities

• Define and measure quantitative UX and business goals and metrics in collaboration with Designers, Qualitative Researchers, Data Scientists, Engineers, and Product Managers. Develop code and statistical models to understand user experience.
• Prioritize and drive research to improve user experience, communicate findings to stakeholders in the company, and make research findings convincing for both research experts and non-experts.
• Choose appropriate metrics to understand the use of Material Design throughout Google and its impact on the end users and key product success measures.
• Work with teams across the company to conduct Live Experiments on their user interfaces and synthesize the data to explore the impact of various design components and tactics.
• Transform the metrics and data processes in our organization including agentic analysis of user interface code.

Qualifications

Minimum qualifications:

• Bachelor's degree in Human-Computer Interaction, Cognitive Science, Statistics, Psychology, Anthropology, a related field, or equivalent practical experience.
• 6 years of experience in a Data Science, Analyst, or Quantitative UX Researcher role.
• Experience with survey design and metrics development.
• Experience in programming languages used for data manipulation and computational statistics (e.g., Python, R, SQL).
• Experience in design systems, user interface components, and front end development frameworks for Android, Web.

Preferred qualifications:

• Master's degree or PhD in Human-Computer Interaction, Psychology, Political Science, Statistics, Computer Science, or a related field.
• Experience collaborating with other roles (e.g., Product Managers, Designers, and Engineers) to influence product decisions.
• Experience cleaning, joining, and analyzing datasets with many types of data, logs, and surveys.
• Experience with data visualization techniques and tools for visual storytelling.
• Excellent quantitative research method skills to produce insights and drive product excellence.