Senior Product Data Scientist, Discover Experience

Google; Mountain View (CA); On-site; USD 142,000 - 236,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Bonus

Equity

Benefits

Job summary

Google's Discover Experience team in Mountain View is seeking a Senior Product Data Scientist to drive data-informed product decisions and shape features for millions of users. You will design experiments, analyze results, and partner with product, engineering, and UX to ensure impactful product iterations.

The role requires a strong background in statistics and coding (Python, R, SQL), with 8 years of analytics experience (or 5 years with a Master’s).

Qualifications

• Bachelor's degree in Statistics, Mathematics, Data Science, Engineering, Physics, Economics, or a related quantitative field.
• 8 years of work experience using analytics to solve product or business problems, performing statistical analysis, and coding (e.g., Python, R, SQL) (or 5 years work experience with a Master's degree).

Responsibilities

• Conduct analysis and defining launch criteria for important launches, designing, implementing, and analyzing experiments to measure the impact of new features and product changes, ensuring we make data-driven decisions.
• Drive exploratory analysis and user understanding, user behavior patterns, and identifying, sizing and articulating new opportunities for Discover.
• Work with Cross-Functional Team (Product Management, Engineering, UXR, Design) on launch analysis, product iteration, and impact quantification.

Skills

Analytics

Statistical analysis

Python

R

SQL

Problem solving

Team collaboration

Communication

Education

Bachelor's degree

Master's degree

Job description

Senior Product Data Scientist, Discover Experience

Mountain View, CA, USA

Mid

Experience driving progress, solving problems, and mentoring more junior team members; deeper expertise and applied knowledge within relevant area.

Minimum qualifications:

• Bachelor's degree in Statistics, Mathematics, Data Science, Engineering, Physics, Economics, or a related quantitative field.
• 8 years of work experience using analytics to solve product or business problems, performing statistical analysis, and coding (e.g., Python, R, SQL) (or 5 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.
• 8 years of work experience using analytics to solve product or business problems, performing statistical analysis, and coding (e.g., Python, R, SQL).
• Excellent problem-framing, problem-solving and team collaboration skills.
• Excellent communication skills, especially in communicating technical and statistical concepts clearly and concisely among audiences across different levels.

About the job

From the beginning, Google's mission has been to organize the world's information and make it universally accessible and useful, and we consider it a privilege to be able to help. As technology continues to evolve, our commitment remains to help users in their journey to connect to helpful information more easily, leveraging technology to find new ways to satisfy users' information needs.

Discover is a personalized feed that provides users with relevant and meaningful information based on their interests and our knowledge of the world's information, and is part of the broader Search organization at Google. Today, Discover is one of the world's largest feed products, with more than 500M daily active users. Our mission is to make it effortless for people to catch up on their interests by bringing together informative, entertaining content.

Our role in Discover Data Science is to advance that mission with a data-informed strategy, identifying opportunities and accelerating execution. The Discover Feed Experiences team owns the user-facing (non-ranking) elements of the Discover product including experience, growth, AI integration into feed and more.

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

US: $163000 - $236000 (USD) + 15% bonus target + equity + benefits

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Responsibilities

• Conduct analysis and defining launch criteria for important launches, designing, implementing, and analyzing experiments to measure the impact of new features and product changes, ensuring we make data-driven decisions.
• Drive exploratory analysis and user understanding, user behavior patterns, and identifying, sizing and articulating new opportunities for Discover.
• Work with Cross-Functional Team (Product Management, Engineering, UXR, Design) on launch analysis, product iteration, and impact quantification.

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