Cognitive Science Jobs in Seattle, WA (NOW HIRING)

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X In accordance with Washington state law, we are highlighting our comprehensive benefits package, which is available to all eligible US based employees. Benefits for this role include:

• Health, dental, vision, life, disability insurance
• Retirement Benefits: 401(k) with company match
• Paid Time Off: 20 days of vacation per year, accruing at a rate of 6.15 hours per pay period for the first five years of employment
• Sick Time: 40 hours/year (increased to 69 hours/year for Seattle) including 5 discretionary sick days per instance
• Maternity Leave (Short-Term Disability Baby Bonding): 28-30 weeks
• Baby Bonding Leave: 18 weeks
• Holidays: 13 paid days per year

Note: By applying to this position you will have an opportunity to share your preferred working location from the following: Kirkland, WA, USA; New York, NY, USA; Seattle, WA, USA; Sunnyvale, CA, USA.
Minimum qualifications:

• Bachelor's degree or equivalent practical experience.
• 6 years of experience of experience in an applied research setting (e.g., product or academic), or similar.
• Experience with qualitive research, quantitative research, and surveys.

Preferred qualifications:

• Master's degree or PhD in Human-Computer Interaction, Cognitive Science, Statistics, Psychology, Anthropology, or related field.
• 5 years of experience conducting UX research on products and working with executive leadership (e.g., Director level and above).
• 3 years of experience managing projects, and working in a large, matrixed organization.
• Experience driving 0-to-1 product development through strategic, human-centered research.
• Experience working with complex data sets (e.g., multimodal data), and advanced quantitative methodologies (e.g., logs analytics, causal inference, and user segmentation).

About the job
At Google, we "Focus on the user and all else will follow." As a User Experience Researcher (UXR), you make this possible. You will join our multi-disciplinary UX team, collaborating with Engineering and Product Management, to gather insights and create industry-leading products.
You'll play a critical role in helping your team understand user needs and will drive impact at all stages of product development, ensuring products are useful, usable, and helpful. You will explore user behaviors and motivations by conducting primary research, including: field studies, interviews, diary studies, ethnography, surveys, usability testing, and logs analysis. You will also grow within a supportive UXR community offering mentorship, regular meetups, and exclusive internal tools.
As a UX Researcher on our team, your insights will help us understand how to seamlessly connect people and products so that more users can unlock the full value of Google. Specifically, your work will drive broader and deeper engagement across platforms by helping users discover, onboard, and experience everything Google has to offer, including identifying high-value opportunities and getting product teams to think differently about approaching problems, rather than focusing on the same small surfaces.
Your work will also focus on bridging the 'trust gap' in AI-driven experiences by delivering personalized, context-aware onboarding and collaborative journeys that align with user needs. By translating complex technical concepts like agentic autonomy and cross-app integration into intuitive, high-value user outcomes, you will help ensure our AI solutions feel like helpful partners rather than intrusive tools.The Core team builds the technical foundation behind Google's flagship products. We are owners and advocates for the underlying design elements, developer platforms, product components, and infrastructure at Google. These are the essential building blocks for excellent, safe, and coherent experiences for our users and drive the pace of innovation for every developer. We look across Google's products to build central solutions, break down technical barriers and strengthen existing systems. As the Core team, we have a mandate and a unique opportunity to impact important technical decisions across the company.Individual pay is determined by factors including job-related skills, experience, and relevant education or training.
US: $159000 - $230000 (USD) 15% bonus target equity benefits
Learn more about benefits at Google .
Responsibilities

• 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 within the project.
• Drive ideas to improve products and services through research-driven insights and recommendations.
• Lead teams to define and evaluate product, service, and ecosystem impact.
• Shape goal and strategy discussions through research by analyzing, consolidating, or synthesizing what is known about user, product, service, or business needs.

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