Product Data Scientist, Consumer Shopping

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

Benefits offered by this job

Equity

Benefits

Job summary

Google Shopping is a comprehensive product search engine and a fast-growing ads business within the Consumer Shopping Data Science team. You will evaluate and improve Shopping products, collaborating with engineers and product managers to measure quality, understand user behavior, and drive data-informed decisions.

You will design experiments, launch projects, and communicate findings clearly to leadership.

Qualifications

• Bachelor's degree in a quantitative field or equivalent practical experience.
• 5 years of work experience with analysis applications and coding (Python, R, SQL) or 2 years with a Master's degree.
• Preferred: Master's degree in Statistics, Mathematics, Data Science, Engineering, Physics, Economics, or a related field.

Responsibilities

• Work with large, complex data sets and conduct end-to-end analysis, including data gathering, processing, analysis, and presentation.
• Build and prototype analysis pipelines to provide insights at scale and understand data structures and metrics.
• Collaborate cross-functionally with engineers and product managers to identify opportunities for product and sales improvements.
• Present findings to stakeholders with clear visualizations and actionable business recommendations.
• Research and develop methods to improve the quality of Google's user-facing products.

Skills

Python

R

SQL

Statistics

Data analysis

Analytical thinking

Education

Bachelor's degree

Master's degree (preferred)

Job description

Minimum qualifications:

• Bachelor's degree in Statistics, Mathematics, Data Science, Engineering, Physics, Economics, or a related quantitative field, or equivalent practical experience.
• 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).

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:

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.

Google Shopping is a comprehensive product search engine, a fast-growing product ads business, and an everyday essentials marketplace. We aim to revolutionize shopping by building great end-to-end user experiences that bring users, retailers, and manufacturers together. The Consumer Shopping Data Science team works on Shopping products on various surfaces including Search, AI Mode, and Gemini.
As a Data Scientist in Consumer Shopping organization, you will evaluate and improve Google's Shopping products. You will collaborate with a multidisciplinary team of engineers and product managers on a wide range of problems. You will bring analytical aptitude and statistical methods to the challenges of measuring quality, improving consumer products, and understanding the behavior of our end-users, merchants, and partners. You will develop, organize, and launch experiments and projects across Engineering and Product teams.

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:

• Work with large, complex data sets and solve difficult, non-routine analysis problems. Conduct end-to-end analysis that includes data gathering and requirements specification, processing, analysis, ongoing deliverables, and presentations.
  
• Build and prototype analysis pipelines iteratively to provide insights at scale. Develop comprehensive understanding of Google data structures and metrics, advocating for changes where needed for both product development and sales activity.
  
• Interact cross-functionally with a wide variety of leaders and teams, and work closelywith Engineers and Product Managers to identify opportunities for design and to assess improvements for Google products.
  
• Make business recommendations with effective presentation of findings at multiple levels of stakeholders through visual displays of quantitative information.
  
• Research and develop analysis and methods to improve the quality of Google's user facing products.