Google

Staff Research Data Scientist, Google Labs

Google$207K — $300K *
Information Technology
8 - 10 years of experience
Job Overview by Ladders

Qualifications

  • Master's degree in Statistics, Data Science, Mathematics, Physics, Economics, Operations Research, Engineering, or a related quantitative field.
  • 8 years of analytics experience or 6 years with a PhD, focusing on product or business problem-solving using coding (Python, R, SQL).
  • 10 years of preferred analytics experience or 8 years with a PhD, with deep expertise in statistical data analysis techniques.
  • 2 years of relevant experience as a data scientist or product analyst with proven skills in causal inference and multivariate analysis.
  • Experience communicating business questions and translating data insights into actionable business recommendations.

Responsibilities

  • Analyze large, complex data sets to solve challenging analysis problems using advanced methods.
  • Present analytical insights regularly to executives to influence product strategy.
  • Prototype scalable analysis pipelines, understanding Google data structures and metrics for product and sales improvements.
  • Collaborate cross-functionally with product teams and engineers to identify and design improvements for products.
  • Provide business recommendations through effective presentations, utilizing visual displays of quantitative information.

Benefits

  • Generous stock options and 20% bonus target.
  • Comprehensive health and wellness programs.
  • Work-life balance initiatives.
  • Opportunity for remote work from New York, NY or Mountain View, CA.
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Minimum qualifications:
  • Master's degree in Statistics, Data Science, Mathematics, Physics, Economics, Operations Research, Engineering, or a related quantitative field.
  • 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.

Preferred qualifications:
  • 10 years of work experience using analytics to solve product or business problems, coding (e.g., Python, R, SQL), querying databases or statistical analysis, or 8 years of work experience with a PhD degree.
  • 2 years of relevant work experience as a data scientist/product analyst, including deep expertise and experience with statistical data analysis such as linear models, multivariate analysis, causal inference, sampling methods.
  • Experience articulating business questions and using mathematical techniques to arrive at an answer using available data. Experience results into business recommendations.
  • Demonstrated skills in selecting the right statistical tools given a data analysis problem.


About the job

In this role, you will be joining the Data Science team within Labs. The Labs Data Science team is a horizontal team, and we help the broader Labs team with metrics, experimentation, evaluation, insights, and data-driven decision making.

The Labs Data Science team is a horizontal team that supports quality evaluation, growth analysis, and data-driven decision making across the portfolio of Labs products. You will work closely with Labs product teams (PMs, Engineers, and cross-functional partners) on selected analysis projects. Example projects include growth and funnel analysis, quality evaluation (autoraters, metrics, eval set development), top-line metrics development, and user insights. You will work with these teams to develop scalable investigative tools (dashboards, metrics, pipelines), and also to communicate actionable results to the product teams to help influence product direction.

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

US: $207000 - $300000 (USD) 20% bonus target equity benefits

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Responsibilities
  • Work with large, complex data sets. Solve difficult, non-routine analysis problems, applying advanced investigative methods as needed. Conduct end-to-end analysis that includes data gathering and requirements specification, processing, analysis, ongoing deliverables, and presentations.
  • Regularly share/present analysis to organization executives in order to share insights and influence product direction.
  • Build and prototype analysis pipelines iteratively to provide insights at scale. Develop comprehensive understanding of Google data structures and metrics, advocating for changes where needed for both products development and sales activity.
  • Interact cross-functionally with a wide variety of people and teams. Work closely with engineers to identify opportunities for, design, and assess improvements to google products.
  • Make business recommendations (e.g. cost-benefit, forecasting, experiment analysis) with effective presentations of findings at multiple levels of stakeholders through visual displays of quantitative information.


About Google

Google is a multinational technology company that specializes in Internet-related services and products. These include online advertising technologies, search engine, cloud computing, software, and hardware. Google was founded in 1998 by Larry Page and Sergey Brin while they were Ph.D. students at Stanford University. The company has grown tremendously since then and has become one of the most valuable companies in the world. Google's mission is to organize the world's information and make it universally accessible and useful.
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