Google

Senior Research Data Scientist, YouTube Shorts Creation

Google San Bruno, California, United States · $174K–$252K/yr

Software Development · 10,001+ employees

4 h ago
data-scientist Senior (5-10 yrs) Full-time United States
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About the role

You will collaborate with cross-functional teams to translate business questions into mathematical models and actionable insights. Additionally, you will own the data extraction process and support product launch decisions through rigorous experimental design.

What they look for

Python R SQL Data Science Statistics Mathematics Physics Economics Operations Research Engineering Experimental Design Mathematical Modeling Data Infrastructure Data Analysis Product Strategy

Requirements

Candidates must hold a Master's degree in a quantitative field and possess at least 5 years of relevant work experience. Proficiency in coding languages such as Python, R, and SQL is required for data manipulation and analysis.

Benefits

Bonus Equity Health Insurance

Full description

Minimum qualifications:

  • Master's degree in Statistics, Data Science, Mathematics, Physics, Economics, Operations Research, Engineering, or a related quantitative field.
  • 5 years of work experience using analytics to solve product or business problems, coding (e.g., Python, R, SQL), querying databases or statistical analysis, or 3 years of work experience with a PhD degree.

Preferred qualifications:

  • 8 years of work experience using analytics to solve product or business problems, coding (e.g., Python, R, SQL), querying databases or statistical analysis, or 6 years of work experience with a PhD degree.

About the job:

In this role, you will be a part of YouTube Data Science, a team that directly influences and informs YouTube’s product and engineering leadership as it has a long history of working on projects that are at the heart of the business and have a seat at the table when it comes to the decisions that drive YouTube's continued success. The Data Science team advises on strategy, metrics, and product changes that improve these 0 to 1 experiences for our users. You will improve decisions at YouTube with science.

Individual pay is determined by factors including job-related skills, experience, and relevant education or training.

US: $174000 - $252000 (USD) + 15% bonus target + equity + benefits

Learn more about benefits at Google. Responsibilities:

  • Engage with stakeholders across cross-functional projects and team settings to identify and clarify business or product questions to answer, while providing feedback to translate and refine business questions into tractable analysis, evaluation metrics, or mathematical models.
  • Leverage custom data infrastructure or existing data models as appropriate, using specialized knowledge to design and evaluate models that mathematically express and solve defined problems with limited precedent.
  • Work with the engineering and product teams to create new metrics, maintain classifiers, enable insights, and drive data-driven decision making.
  • Own the process of gathering, extracting, and compiling data across sources via relevant tools (e.g., SQL, R, Python), formatting, re-structuring, or validate data to ensure quality, and review the dataset to ensure it is ready for analysis.
  • Support launch decisions through experimental design and analysis.

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