Steven Schirra
Senior Staff UX Researcher UXR Manager at YouTube
San Francisco, California, United States
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Top SchoolSteven Schirra is a Senior Staff UX Researcher and UXR Manager based in San Francisco with seven years of experience leading user research at scale. He currently directs research across YouTube’s Watch, Video Infrastructure, and Learning teams, translating complex user behaviors into actionable product insights. Trained with an MA from Emerson and an SM from MIT, he blends rigorous academic methods with pragmatic, cross-functional collaboration. Steven is as comfortable designing longitudinal studies as he is coaching teams to embed research into product roadmaps. A Kotlin enthusiast who credits deep focus to his enjoyment of Tetris Effect, he brings both analytical rigor and a playful curiosity to solving product challenges.
7 years of coding experience
Master of Science (S.M.), Master of Science (S.M.) at Massachusetts Institute of TechnologyBachelor of Arts (B.A.), Bachelor of Arts (B.A.) at Kent State UniversityMaster of Arts (M.A.), Master of Arts (M.A.) at Emerson College
Github Skills (160)
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Programming languages (13)
Github contributions (5)
sschr15/sschr15.github.io
Sep 2019 - Feb 2021
Contributions:2 PRs, 182 pushes, 3 branches in 1 year 5 months
Ladysnake/cozy-discord
Dec 2021 - Mar 2024
Discord bot used for small day-to-day tasks. Discord avatar based on Feuerfuchs blobfox emoji at https://www.feuerfuchs.dev/en/projects/blobfox-emojis/
Contributions:8 PRs, 130 pushes, 2 branches in 2 years 2 months
emojidiscord-jsdevdiscordbot
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