Research Data Scientist, Growth and Notifications

Minimum qualifications:

• Master's degree in Statistics, Mathematics, Physics, Economics, Operations Research, Engineering, a related quantitative field, or equivalent practical experience.
• Experience with statistical data analysis and experimental design.
• Experience with software development in one or more programming languages (e.g., Python, C, C++, Java, JavaScript).
• Experience using analytics to solve product or business problems, statistical modeling and creating dashboards.
  
  

Preferred qualifications:

• Experience in translating analysis results into business recommendations and business questions into an analysis framework.
• Experience implementing core Machine Learning (ML) concepts.
• Applied knowledge of measurement, statistics and program evaluation.
• Excellent written and verbal communication skills that enable to translate data into easily understood insights.
• Excellent problem-solving and critical thinking skills.
  
  

About The Job

At Google, data drives all of our decision-making. Quantitative Analysts work all across the organization to help shape Google's business and technical strategies by processing, analyzing and interpreting huge data sets. Using analytical excellence and statistical methods, you mine through data to identify opportunities for Google and our clients to operate more efficiently, from enhancing advertising efficacy to network infrastructure optimization to studying user behavior. As an analyst, you do more than just crunch the numbers. You work with Engineers, Product Managers, Sales Associates and Marketing teams to adjust Google's practices according to your findings. Identifying the problem is only half the job; you also figure out the solution.

As a key member of the team, you work with engineers to analyze and interpret data, develop metrics to measure results and integrate new methodologies into existing systems.

Growth and Notifications Team (GaNT) Analytics is all about data, quality and teamwork. Engineers work side by side with analysts and product in a collaborative atmosphere to build products that affect users.

The GaNT Analytics Team works to shape the future of growth and notifications across Google’s products like YouTube, Photos, and Maps through developing a deep understanding of what drives growth and engagement across the Google ecosystem. Specifically, we look at problems like: What are signals for notification satisfaction or harm? What information is most useful to users on new devices, and much more.

Responsibilities

• Collaborate with stakeholders in cross-projects and team settings to identify and clarify business or product questions to answer. Provide feedback to translate and refine business questions into tractable analysis, evaluation metrics, or mathematical models.
• Gather information, business goals, priorities, and organizational context around the questions to answer, as well as the existing and upcoming data infrastructure.
• Own the process of gathering, extracting, and compiling data across sources via relevant tools (e.g., SQL, R, Python). Format, re-structure, and/or validate data to ensure quality, and review the dataset to ensure it is ready for analysis.
• Define and evaluate experiments and contribute to a wide variety of research projects using statistical analysis and modeling.
• Develop and automate reports, iteratively build and prototype dashboards to provide insights at scale, solving for investigative needs.
  
  

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