Staff Data Scientist, Product

Google; Mountain View (CA); On-site; USD 192,000 - 278,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Health insurance

Dental insurance

Vision insurance

Life insurance

Disability insurance

401(k) with company match

Paid time off 20 days/year

Sick leave 40 hours/yr

Maternity leave 28-30 weeks

Baby bonding leave 18 weeks

Holidays 13 days

Job summary

Google is seeking a data scientist to serve as an analytics expert for partners across Engineering and Product Management. You will weave meaningful insights from data and communicate findings to leadership, turning numbers into strategic decisions.

Google emphasizes broad technical skills and tackling scalability and platform challenges to impact users worldwide. Individual pay is determined by skills, experience, and education.

Qualifications

• Bachelor's degree in a quantitative field.
• 10 years of work experience with analytics, statistics, and coding (or 8 years with a Master's).

Responsibilities

• Perform analysis using SQL, R and Python; provide analytics leadership to drive business improvements.
• Own project outcomes from problem definition to metrics, data extraction, modelling and stakeholder presentation.
• Develop solutions, frame problems and make data-driven recommendations combining analytics and product context.
• Oversee cross-functional timelines; drive process improvements and define operational goals.
• Mentor colleagues and help develop capabilities in analytics.

Skills

Analytics

Statistical analysis

Programming

SQL

Python

R

Education

Bachelor's degree

Master's degree preferred

Tools

SQL

R

Python

Job description

In accordance with Washington state law, we are highlighting our comprehensive benefits package, which is available to all eligible US based employees. Benefits for this role include:

• Health, dental, vision, life, disability insurance
• Retirement Benefits: 401(k) with company match
• Paid Time Off: 20 days of vacation per year, accruing at a rate of 6.15 hours per pay period for the first five years of employment
• Sick Time: 40 hours/year (increased to 69 hours/year for Seattle) including 5 discretionary sick days per instance
• Maternity Leave (Short-Term Disability + Baby Bonding): 28-30 weeks
• Baby Bonding Leave: 18 weeks
• Holidays: 13 paid days per year

In most instances, this position requires in-person interviews as part of the hiring process.

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

Minimum qualifications

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

Preferred qualifications

• Master's degree in Statistics, Mathematics, Data Science, Engineering, Physics, Economics, or a related quantitative field.
• 12 years of work experience using analytics to solve product or business problems, performing statistical analysis, and coding (e.g., 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 is an engineering company at heart. We hire people with a broad set of technical skills who are ready to take on some of technology's greatest challenges and make an impact on users around the world. At Google, engineers not only revolutionize search, they routinely work on scalability and storage solutions, large-scale applications and entirely new platforms for developers around the world. From Google Ads to Chrome, Android to YouTube, social to local, Google engineers are changing the world one technological achievement after another.

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

US: $192000 - $278000 (USD) + 20% bonus target + equity + benefits

Responsibilities

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• Perform analysis utilizing relevant tools (e.g., SQL, R, Python). Provide analytical thought leadership through proactive and strategic contributions (e.g., suggests new analyses, infrastructure or experiments to drive improvements in the business).
• Own outcomes for projects by covering problem definition, metrics development, data extraction and manipulation, visualization, creation, and implementation of analytical/statistical models, and presentation to stakeholders.
• Develop solutions, lead, and manage problems that may be ambiguous and lacking clear precedent by framing problems, generating hypotheses, and making recommendations from a perspective that combines both, analytical and product-specific expertise.
• Oversee the integration of cross-functional and cross-organizational project/process timelines, develop process improvements and recommendations, and help define operational goals and objectives.
• Directly or indirectly oversee the contributions of others and develop colleagues’ capabilities in the area of specialization.

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 .