Google Looking For Strategy Principal, Consumer UX at New York, NY Full Time

Note: By applying to this position you will have an opportunity to share your preferred working location from the following: San Francisco, CA, USA; Mountain View, CA, USA; New York, NY, USA.

Minimum qualifications:
Bachelor’s degree or equivalent practical experience.

5 years of experience in management consulting, corporate strategy, financial planning and analysis, business intelligence, or another relevant industry/discipline.

5 years of experience analyzing and translating data into insights, leveraging insights to drive planning, and presenting results of analysis to both technical and non-technical audiences.

Preferred qualifications:
Ability to work in a fast-moving environment, collaborating on multiple parallel tasks directly with executive stakeholders with an innovation-first mindset.

Demonstrated analytical and conceptual capabilities with an ability to move beyond high levels of ambiguity without supervision.

Data mining, analysis, modeling, and visualization skills (e.g., in SQL/GoogleSQL, R, Python, PLX, Dremel, Data Studio/Tableau, etc.).

Excellent presentation, communication, and storytelling skills, including the ability to build sophisticated presentations suitable for executive and/or external audience.

About the job

Google Consumer User Experience (UX) is a multi-disciplinary UX team focused on building experiences that empower people. Consumer UX researches, designs, and collaboratively builds Search, Assistant, Maps, Payments, Shopping, and Travel products. The Strategy and Analytics team in Consumer UX drives UX strategy, programs, and operations that empower cross-functional teams to continuously deliver extraordinary insights, systems, and experiences at scale.

You will work as knowledge specialists and be critical partners to UX Leadership in driving strategic initiatives that influence the growth of Google’s key consumer products. As a member of this team, you will develop strategic recommendations on topics of executive interest (e.g., countries of focus, next-generation users, emergent tech, etc.) and deliver knowledge assets and expert advisory to Consumer UX/Google leaders.

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.”

Responsibilities

Lead quantitative/qualitative analyses to evaluate hypotheses, track external industry trends, and recommend bets leadership should make.

Partner closely with the UX, Product, Engineering, and Business leaders to understand topics of executive interest that inform the strategy and direction of Google’s Consumer products.

Apply a mix of primary (bespoke) and secondary (leveraging existing intelligence) research to analyze user or product data and distill key insights into written and visual knowledge artifacts (e.g., presentations, whitepapers, etc.).

Drive the requirements gathering, documentation, and tracking of complex, long-term analytical/research projects end-to-end to provide clear communication to cross-functional leads and executives regarding project status, resource requirements, issues, priorities, etc.

Develop compelling and cohesive narratives on recommendations on forward looking areas to drive critical business/product changes.

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