Data Scientist III, Product, Search

About the position

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. The iOS Google App (iGA) delivers the flagship Google Search experience on iPhones, meeting the diverse information needs of people each month. The iGA analyst team partners with the iGA product organization and other cross-functional collaborators to enable leaders to make data-driven decisions. We research and validate north star and operational metrics, perform experimentation and observational studies on users to launch high-quality features, and deliver strategic insights about Google and the market to inform high-level product decisions. 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.

Responsibilities

• Perform analysis by utilizing relevant tools (e.g., SQL, R, Python), using comprehensive technical knowledge, use custom data infrastructure or existing data models.
• Report Key Performance Indicators (KPIs) to support business reviews with cross-functional/organizational leadership team. Translate analysis results to business insights or product improvement opportunities.
• Provide insights and recommendations to influence product feature development decisions, and with some guidance.
• Build and prototype analysis and business cases iteratively to provide insights at scale. Develop comprehensive knowledge of Google data structures and metrics.
• Partner with Product, Engineering, and cross-functional teams to influence, prioritize, and support product strategy around the iOS Google App's entry points, surfaces, and new product development opportunities.

Requirements

• Master's degree in Statistics, Economics, Engineering, Mathematics, a related quantitative field, or equivalent practical experience.
• 3 years of experience with statistical data analysis, data mining, and querying (e.g., SQL).
• 1 year of experience managing analytical projects.

Nice-to-haves

• 3 years of experience in scripting, statistical analysis (e.g., R, Stata, SPSS, SAS), developing and managing metrics, and evaluating programs/products.
• Experience working with Engineers and Product Managers, around providing product-centric insights, extracting large sets of data with SQL and in designing ETL flows.
• Experience in developing models (e.g., statistical and causal inference, classification methods).
• Experience in identifying opportunities for product improvement and defining/measuring the success of those initiatives.
• Experience analyzing user behaviors in consumer apps, and linking those behaviors to business outcomes.

Benefits

• Bonus
• Equity
• Health benefits