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 Trust Analytics team is part of the larger Trust team which is responsible for building durable solutions that enable products across Google to easily provide coherent, compliant, and age-appropriate experiences that empower users to make meaningful and informed choices about their data. The Trust team is very data-driven and works on some of the most pressing, high stakes challenges that Google is faced with when responding to regulatory-driven efforts, including those concerning AI, and also helps scale consent, transparency, controls across the Google ecosystem.
Responsibilities
- Perform analysis by utilizing relevant tools (e.g., SQL, R, Python). Using comprehensive technical knowledge, use custom data infrastructure or existing data models.
- Own the process of gathering, extracting, and compiling data across sources via relevant tools (e.g., SQL, R, Python). Format, re-structure, and validate data to ensure quality.
- 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 analytical 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.
Requirements
- Master's degree in Statistics, Economics, Engineering, Mathematics, a related quantitative field, or equivalent practical experience.
- 5 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.
- 1 year of experience working in a complex, matrixed organization.
Benefits
- 401k
- health_insurance
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- vision_insurance
- life_insurance
- disability_insurance
- paid_holidays
- paid_volunteer_time
- tuition_reimbursement
- employee_stock_purchase_plan
- performance_bonus
- sign_on_bonus
- flexible_scheduling
- professional_development
