Product Data Scientist, Search
Mountain View, CA
Minimum qualifications:
- Bachelor's degree in Statistics, Mathematics, Data Science, Engineering, Physics, Economics, or a related quantitative field.
- 5 years of work experience with analysis applications (e.g., extracting insights, performing statistical analysis, or solving business problems), and coding (Python, R, SQL) or 2 years of experience with a Master's degree.
Preferred qualifications:
- Master's degree in Statistics, Mathematics, Data Science, Engineering, Physics, Economics, or a related quantitative field.
About the job
The Search Data Science team's goal is to drive Search product excellence and growth with data insights. We perform analysis to help the Search organization make big investment decisions. We do research on topline and operational metrics for Search products to help them make data-driven decisions. We work closely with product teams end-to-end to help them build products that users love. This includes headroom analysis, product-market fit, experiment analysis, and helping leadership make trade-offs between engaging metrics (e.g., richness of experience versus search latency). We provide insights to drive responsible growth for Search; most importantly, long-term user value is what we care about the most.Responsibilities
- Work closely with cross-functional team members within Google's App Growth organization to define and execute strategies for acquiring and retaining users on both iOS and Android platforms.
- Provide quantitative support, market understanding, and a perspective to our partners throughout the organization.
- Work with large data sets and solve non-routine investigative issues, applying statistical methods to measure quality, improve consumer products, and understand end-user behavior.
- Make compelling business recommendations through effective presentations of findings to multiple levels of stakeholders and solid storytelling with data.
- Interact cross-functionally with a wide variety of teams, working closely with Product Manager and Engineering leads to identify growth and quality opportunities for the product.
About the Company
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.