Data Scientist, Discover

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

Job summary

Google Discover is hiring for a data-driven Growth Analytics role. The candidate will partner with product managers and engineers to analyze user journeys, identify friction points, and evaluate interventions to boost activation, engagement, and retention.

You will build growth accounting frameworks to measure new, resurrected, retained, and churned users across a global base. Responsibilities include leading the investigative cadence for weekly business reviews, designing and evaluating A/B

Qualifications

• Bachelor's degree in a quantitative field is required.
• 5+ years of work experience with analysis apps and coding (Python, R, SQL), or 2 years with a Master’s degree.
• Experience building and maintaining automated reporting pipelines and dashboards for recurring business reviews.
• Experience in growth analytics, user lifecycle modeling, or growth accounting for consumer apps or feed-based systems.
• Experience partnering with product and engineering teams to translate findings into product roadmaps and feature iterations.

Responsibilities

• Partner with Product Managers and Engineers to analyze user journeys and evaluate interventions to improve activation, engagement, and retention.
• Build and maintain growth accounting frameworks to measure user dynamics across Discover's global base.
• Lead weekly business reviews, identifying drivers of week-over-week metric movements and presenting insights to cross-functional partners.
• Design, run, and evaluate A/B experiments on growth initiatives with rigorous measurement and decision-making.

Skills

Python

R

SQL

Analytics

Growth analytics

Education

Bachelor's degree in quantitative field

Master's degree preferred

Job description

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. Individual pay is determined by factors including job-related skills, experience, and relevant education or training.

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

Learn more about benefits at Google.

Responsibilities:

• 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.