Business Data Scientist, Finance

Google • San Bruno, CA

7d • $138,000 - $198,000

About The Position

Google's leadership team hand-picks thorny business challenges, and members of BizOps work in small teams to find solutions. As part of this team you fully immerse yourself in data collection, draw insight from analysis, and then zoom out to develop compelling, synthesized recommendations. Taking strategy one step further, you also persuasively communicate your recommendations to senior-level executives, roll-up your sleeves to help drive implementation and check back-in to see the impact of your recommendations.

As a YouTube team member, you will have the knowledge of our products (both ad and consumer), but not limited to - YouTube, applying technical skills to drive principled business decisions always grounded in data. These will include ad hoc questions from the business, as well as multi-year projects to evolve Global Business Organization (GBO's) priorities, strategy, and metrics. You will bring all these skills together in the service of supporting key business decisions. You will also be adept at building cross-functional relationships with various stakeholders and using data to influence strategy and outcomes. You will report to the Senior Business Data Scientist Manager leading YouTube+ efforts and be based in San Bruno.

Requirements

• Master's degree in a quantitative discipline such as Statistics, Engineering, Sciences, or equivalent practical experience.
• 3 years of experience using analytics to solve product or business problems, coding (e.g., Python, R, SQL), querying databases or statistical analysis, or a relevant PhD degree.

Nice To Haves

• 4 years of experience using analytics to solve product or business problems, coding (e.g., Python, R, SQL), querying databases or statistical analysis, or a relevant PhD degree.
• Experience with code management concepts (google3, cider, blaze) and a passion to evolve at pace with AI.

Responsibilities

• Manage a portfolio of data-driven analysis projects within a technical team to guide and support decision making for YouTube.
• Build relationships with the YouTube team and present the Finance point of view in various decision making forums.
• Develop infrastructure and tooling to understand the value that customers are receiving from our YouTube products (such as DemandGen and Brand) and understand where there’s opportunity to accelerate budgets.
• Build tooling to decompose the drivers of growth (and identify the areas of opportunity) across all regions or channels.
• Develop with the team the next generation of opportunity sizing methods and tooling, navigate partner teams (e.g. Brand Planner) to deliver consistent work to leaders and sellers, which includes contributing to the statistical incrementality workstream with the Economics team co-developing new methodologies.

What This Job Offers

• Job Type: Full-time
• Career Level: Mid Level