Research Data Scientist, Ads Insights

Google•Mountain View, CA

1d•$147,000 - $210,000

About The Position

Google’s advertising measurement team focuses on combining data at scale with formal science to make this possible. Our science helps make advertising useful and delightful to our users, and valuable and results-driven for our advertisers and publishers. As a Data Scientist working on Ads Insights, you will play a key role in developing new ideas and methods that drive business generation, including paradigm-shifting products for the privacy-preserving future of digital advertising. In doing so, you will be a key part of building and driving impact on large-scale ad systems both at Google and in the ad-tech and mar-tech industry as a whole, globally.

Requirements

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

Nice To Haves

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 a PhD degree.

Responsibilities

Help suggest, guide, and shape new data-driven and privacy-preserving advertising and marketing products in collaboration with engineering, product, and customer-facing teams.
Collaborate with teams to define relevant questions about advertising effectiveness, incrementality assessment, the impact of privacy, user behavior, brand building, targeting, bidding, etc., and develop and implement quantitative methods to answer those questions.
Find ways to combine large-scale experimentation, statistical-econometric, machine learning, and social-science methods to answer business questions at scale.
Use causal inference methods to design and suggest experiments and new ways to establish causality, assess attribution, and answer questions using data.
Build and prototype analysis pipelines iteratively to provide insights at scale, and develop comprehensive knowledge of Google data structures and metrics, advocating for changes where needed for product development.