UX Research Manager, Google Fi, Google Store

Google

Mountain View, CA

JOB DETAILS
SKILLS
Anthropology, Artificial Intelligence (AI), Career Counseling, Coaching, Cognitive Science, Ecosystems, Equal Employment Opportunity (EEO), Human-Computer Interaction, Leadership, Marketing, Matrix Management, Mentoring, People Management, Performance Reviews, Product Design, Product Development, Product Management, Product Strategy, Project/Program Management, Psychology, Qualitative Research, Research Skills, Retail, Statistics, Team Lead/Manager, Technical/Engineering Design, User Interface/Experience (UI/UX), Wireless Communications, eCommerce
LOCATION
Mountain View, CA
POSTED
30+ days ago
Applicants in San Francisco: Qualified applications with arrest or conviction records will be considered for employment in accordance with the San Francisco Fair Chance Ordinance for Employers and the California Fair Chance Act.Note: By applying to this position you will have an opportunity to share your preferred working location from the following: Mountain View, CA, USA; San Francisco, CA, USA.

Minimum qualifications:

  • Bachelor’s degree or equivalent practical experience.
  • 8 years of experience in an applied research setting, or similar.
  • 3 years of experience leading design projects and managing people or teams.

Preferred qualifications:

  • Master's degree or PhD in Human-Computer Interaction, Cognitive Science, Statistics, Psychology, Anthropology, or a related field.
  • 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.

About the job

At Google, we "Focus on the user and all else will follow." As a UX Research Manager, you will help define and drive the future of Google design by clarifying strategy and conceptualizing UX ecosystems. You are an expert researcher, a visionary leader, and a fierce advocate for both users and your team.You will be responsible for guiding the careers of your team members, helping them realize their full potential, and inspiring forward-thinking design. You are an expert in qualitative research methods—such as field studies, interviews, and diary studies—to shape product development and influence overall strategy. In this role, you will understand both the execution and business aspects of our products, collaborating with leaders across UX, Engineering, and Product Management to create innovative experiences, leveraging your passion for brand, craft, and design quality.

As a UX Research Manager, you will lead the User Experience Research team for two of Google's key direct-to-consumer businesses: Google Fi and Google Store. As a player-coach, you will be responsible for guiding a team of researchers to deliver insights that shape product strategy, while also personally leading high-impact research initiatives. This individual will partner with leadership across Product, Design, Engineering, and Marketing to ensure the user is at the center of our product and business decisions.

In this role, you will lead the UX Research program for Google Fi, Google's wireless carrier, and Google Store, the e-commerce and physical retail platform for Google's hardware and services. The program's scope is global and comprehensive, covering the end-to-end customer journey from initial awareness and acquisition to long-term engagement and loyalty.

Google's mission is to organize the world's information and make it universally accessible and useful. Our Devices & Services team combines the best of Google AI, Software, and Hardware to create radically helpful experiences for users. We research, design, and develop new technologies and hardware to make our user's interaction with computing faster, seamless, and more powerful. Whether finding new ways to capture and sense the world around us, advancing form factors, or improving interaction methods, the Devices & Services team is making people's lives better through technology.

Individual pay is determined by factors including job-related skills, experience, and relevant education or training. US: $188000 - $275000 (USD) + 20% bonus target + bonus + equity + benefitsLearn more about benefits at Google.

Responsibilities

  • Drive the strategic growth initiatives for both Google Fi and Google Store, with a significant focus on foundational research to understand new customers.
  • Inform the product strategy for the online Google Store (e.g., store architecture, checkout, personalization) and shaping the omnichannel customer journey across Google's physical retail locations.
  • Lead research to improve the post-purchase ownership experience, including services like Pixel Care+, device trade-ins, and user engagement with platforms like the My Pixel app.
  • Lead, mentor, and grow a team of three UX Researchers, fostering their career development through dedicated coaching, performance reviews, and promotion support.
  • Define and execute the team's overall UX research strategy and multi-year roadmap, ensuring tight alignment with product priorities and business objectives.
Google is proud to be an equal opportunity workplace and is an affirmative action employer. We are committed to equal employment opportunity regardless of race, color, ancestry, religion, sex, national origin, sexual orientation, age, citizenship, marital status, disability, gender identity or Veteran status. We also consider qualified applicants regardless of criminal histories, consistent with legal requirements. See also Google's EEO Policy and EEO is the Law. If you have a disability or special need that requires accommodation, please let us know by completing our Accommodations for Applicants form.

About the Company

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Google

Build for everyone

Since our founding in 1998, Google has grown by leaps and bounds. Starting from two computer science students in a university dorm room, we now have thousands of employees and offices around the world. These Googlers build products that help create opportunities for everyone, whether down the street or across the globe.

It starts with how we work together. We’re building a company where people of different views, backgrounds and experiences can do their best work and show up for one another. A place where every Googler feels like they belong.

So whether you develop new technology or creative campaigns, craft beautiful products or breakthrough partnerships, your work here is a chance to accomplish things that matter. Bring your insight, imagination, and healthy disregard for the impossible. Bring everything that makes you unique. Together, we can build for everyone.

Benefits

We strive to provide Googlers and their loved ones with a world-class benefits experience, focused on supporting their physical, financial, and emotional wellbeing. Our benefits are based on data, and centered around our users: Googlers and their families. They’re thoughtfully designed to enhance your health and wellbeing, and generous enough to make it easy for you to take good care of yourself (now, and in the future). So we can build for everyone, together.

Learn more about Google’s benefits on this site featuring Googlers’ experience.

How we Hire

Google’s hiring process is an important part of our culture. Googlers care deeply about their teams and the people who make them up. In order to  build for everyone, we know that we need a wide range of perspectives and experiences, and a fair hiring process is the first step in getting there.

Learn more about our hiring process.

COMPANY SIZE
10,000 employees or more
INDUSTRY
Computer Software
EMPLOYEE BENEFITS
Paid Sick Days, Performance Bonus, Professional Development, 401K, Stock Options, Employee Events, Retirement / Pension Plans, Tuition Reimbursement, Work From Home, Life Insurance, On Site Cafeteria
FOUNDED
1998
WEBSITE
https://goo.gle/4dbno6V

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