Senior Staff Product Data Scientist

Google LLC • Mountain View, CA

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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. Within the Merchant Shopping area, the Merchant Analytics team's mission is to enable data-driven decision making at scale to drive Shopping to achieve its most strategic goals.

Requirements

• Bachelor's degree in Statistics, Mathematics, Data Science, Engineering, Physics, Economics, or a related quantitative field.
• 13 years of work experience using analytics to solve product or business problems, performing statistical analysis, and coding (e.g., Python, R, SQL) (or 10 years of work experience with a Master's degree).

Nice To Haves

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

Responsibilities

• Perform analysis utilizing relevant tools (e.g., SQL, R, Python). Direct projects that combine investigative and organizational complexity towards actionable decisions.
• Own projects end-to-end, covering problem definition, metrics development, data extraction and manipulation, visualization, creation, and implementation of investigative/statistical models, and presentation to stakeholders.
• Address ambiguous or new problems by using the capabilities of existing systems and collaborate to turn broad problems into work for the team.
• Oversee the integration of cross-functional and cross-organizational project/process timelines, drive improvements and recommendations, and define operational goals and objectives.
• Provide direction and accomplish results through leading/impacting the contributions of others.

What This Job Offers

• Job Type: Full-time
• Career Level: Mid Level
• Industry: Web Search Portals, Libraries, Archives, and Other Information Services
• Number of Employees: 5,001-10,000 employees