Growth Data Scientist - User Lifecycle & Experiments

Google Inc.; New York (NY); Hybrid; USD 138,000 - 197,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Bonus target

Equity

Benefits

Job summary

Google Discover is hiring a Data Scientist to drive growth analytics and provide actionable insights across global user cohorts. You will collaborate with product and engineering teams to shape roadmaps and optimize activation, engagement, and retention at scale.

Responsibilities include building automated reporting pipelines, leading weekly reviews, and designing robust A/B experiments to guide product iterations, equity, and long-term growth.

Qualifications

• Bachelor's degree in Statistics, Mathematics, Data Science, Engineering, Physics, Economics, or 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 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.

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.

Skills

Python

R

SQL

Statistics

Data Analysis

Growth analytics

Education

Bachelor's degree

Master's degree

Tools

Dashboards

ETL

Job description

Google Discover is hiring a Data Scientist to drive growth analytics and provide actionable insights across global user cohorts. You will collaborate with product and engineering teams to shape roadmaps and optimize activation, engagement, and retention at scale.

Responsibilities include building automated reporting pipelines, leading weekly reviews, and designing robust A/B experiments to guide product iterations, equity, and long-term growth.