Data Scientist, Discover

Google; Mountain View (CA); On-site; USD 138,000 - 197,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Equity

Benefits

Job summary

Google is seeking a data-driven professional to join the Search team in Mountain View, CA, focusing on growth analytics and user dynamics across Discover. You will partner with product and engineering to translate insights into product roadmaps and feature iterations.

The role requires advanced statistical analysis, scalable reporting pipelines, and leadership in weekly business reviews. An equity and benefits package accompanies the position.

Qualifications

• Bachelor's degree in statistics, mathematics, data science, engineering, physics, economics, or a related quantitative field.
• 5 years of work experience with analysis applications and coding (Python, R, SQL) or 2 years with a Master's degree.
• Experience with automated reporting pipelines and dashboards for recurring business reviews (WBRs).
• Experience in growth analytics, user lifecycle modeling, or growth accounting for consumer applications or feed-based systems.
• Experience partnering with product and engineering teams to translate investigative findings into product roadmaps and feature iterations.

Responsibilities

• Partner with Product Managers and Engineers to analyze user journeys, identify friction points, and evaluate interventions to improve activation, engagement, and retention.
• Build and maintain growth accounting frameworks to measure user dynamics across Discover's global user base.
• Lead the investigative cadence for weekly business reviews (WBR) and present insights to cross-functional partners.
• Design, run, and evaluate A/B experiments on growth initiatives with rigorous measurement and decision-making.

Skills

Growth analytics

User lifecycle modeling

Statistical analysis

Cross-functional collaboration

Education

Bachelor's degree in quantitative field

Master's degree in quantitative field

Tools

Python

R

SQL

Job description

Note: By applying to this position you will have an opportunity to share your preferred working location from the following: Mountain View, CA, USA; New York, NY, USA.

Minimum qualifications

• Bachelor's degree in Statistics, Mathematics, Data Science, Engineering, Physics, Economics, or a related quantitative field.
• 5 years of work experience with analysis applications (extracting insights, performing statistical analysis, or solving business problems), and coding (Python, R, SQL) or 2 years work experience with a Master's degree.
• Experience with building and maintaining automated reporting pipelines and dashboards for recurring business reviews (such as WBRs).
• Experience in growth analytics, user lifecycle modeling, or growth accounting for consumer applications or feed-based recommendation systems.
• Experience partnering with product and engineering teams to translate investigative findings into product roadmaps and feature iterations.

Preferred qualifications

• Master's degree in Statistics, Mathematics, Data Science, Engineering, Physics, Economics, or a related quantitative field.
• 5 years of work experience with analysis applications (extracting insights, performing statistical analysis, or solving business problems), and coding (Python, R, SQL).

About the job

Discover is a personalized recommendation feed that provides users with relevant and meaningful information based on their interests and our understanding of the world’s information. Today, Discover is one of the world’s largest feed products, with more than 500M daily active users. Our goal is to create a feed that is “magically made for you and by you.” And our mission is to make it effortless for people to catch up on their interests by bringing together informative, entertaining content from the voices they care about.In Google Search, we're reimagining what it means to search for information – any way and anywhere. To do that, we need to solve complex engineering challenges and expand our infrastructure, while maintaining a universally accessible and useful experience that people around the world rely on. In joining the Search team, you'll have an opportunity to make an impact on billions of people globally.

US: $138000 - $197000 (USD) + 15% bonus target + equity + benefits

Responsibilities

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• Partner directly with Product Managers and Engineers to analyze user journeys, identify friction points across the funnel, and evaluate product interventions to improve activation, engagement, and retention.
• Build and maintain growth accounting frameworks to measure user dynamics (new, resurrected, retained, and churned users) across Discover's global user base.
• Lead the investigative cadence for weekly business reviews (WBR), identifying key drivers of week-over-week metric movements and presenting insights to cross-functional partners.
• Design, run, and evaluate A/B experiments on growth initiatives, ensuring excellence in measurement and decision-making.

Google is proud to be an equal opportunity workplace and is an affirmative action employer. We are committed to equal employment opportunity regardless of race, color, ancestry, religion, sex, national origin, sexual orientation, age, citizenship, marital status, disability, gender identity or Veteran status. We also consider qualified applicants regardless of criminal histories, consistent with legal requirements. See also Google's EEO Policy and EEO is the Law. If you have a disability or special need that requires accommodation, please let us know by completing our Accommodations for Applicants form .