Senior Product Data Scientist, YouTube Growth

Google • San Bruno, CA

20d

About The Position

Help serve Google's worldwide user base of more than a billion people. Data Scientists provide quantitative support, market understanding and a strategic perspective to our partners throughout the organization. As a data-loving member of the team, you serve as an analytics expert for your partners, using numbers to help them make better decisions. You will weave stories with meaningful insight from data. You'll make critical recommendations for your fellow Googlers in Engineering and Product Management. You relish tallying up the numbers one minute and communicating your findings to a team leader the next. In this role, you will be developing a unified, holistic view of growth and health across the entire YouTube ecosystem. Your primary mission will be to establish the standards for what healthy growth looks like, actively monitor product areas for performance, and proactively surface and explain critical trends to YouTube leadership. You will move beyond localized growth initiatives to provide the cross-platform insights that guide major business and product investments. Your work will involve developing new frameworks for measuring and benchmarking growth across different parts of YouTube, diagnosing areas of unhealthy or unsustainable trends, and translating data into clear, actionable narratives.

Requirements

• Bachelor's degree in Statistics, Mathematics, Data Science, Engineering, Physics, Economics, or a related quantitative field.
• 8 years of experience with analysis applications (e.g., extracting insights, performing statistical analysis, or solving business problems), and coding (e.g., Python, R, SQL) or 2 years of experience with a Master's degree.
• 4 years of experience identifying opportunities for business/product improvement and then defining/measuring the success of those initiatives.

Nice To Haves

• Master's degree in Statistics, Mathematics, Data Science, Engineering, Physics, Economics, or a related quantitative field.

Responsibilities

• Perform analysis by utilizing relevant tools (e.g., SQL, R, Python). Use comprehensive technical knowledge, custom data infrastructure or existing data models.
• Design and analyze rigorous experiments to validate hypotheses on the living room surface, translating results into clear recommendations for Engineering and Product partners.
• Develop and standardize a comprehensive suite of horizontal growth metrics and health indicators to measure performance across all major YouTube product and feature areas.
• Provide investigative insights and recommendations to influence product feature development decisions, and with some guidance.
• Build and prototype analysis and business cases iteratively to provide insights at scale.
• Develop comprehensive knowledge of Google data structures and metrics.

What This Job Offers

• Job Type: Full-time
• Career Level: Mid Level
• Number of Employees: 5,001-10,000 employees