Product Data Scientist, Search Verticals and Translate

Google • Mountain View, CA

1d • $138,000 - $198,000

About The Position

Are you interested in launching impactful features on Search to deliver answers
to users across the globe, while also redefining how the world discovers
information by leveraging AI to build 0→1 products? Our mission is to bring new
users to vertical experiences and help existing users get the most out of the
existing verticals. Our mandate is to accelerate products that have product
market fit, identify common patterns and opportunities, and scale impact to all
verticals as quickly as possible. A fast-moving team who is obsessed with
learning and landing real impact quickly.

As a Search Verticals Data Scientist, you will develop advanced statistical and
other analytical methods to identify growth opportunities, such as emerging user
needs, user and lifecycle segmentation, conversion, churn and win-back
prediction, targeting, uplift modeling, value estimation. You will autonomously
drive projects from start to finish, solve complex business problems, and
communicate solutions effectively. By interacting cross-functionally and
influencing executive leadership, you will advocate for users and focus on
sustainable, long-term growth. This role involves understanding a wide range of
search products, from GenAI to simple UI optimization, and using logs, surveys,
and human-eval driven methods to design and validate solutions.

Requirements

• Bachelor's degree in Statistics, Mathematics, Data Science, Engineering, Physics, Economics, or a related quantitative field.
• 5 years of work experience with analysis applications (e.g., extracting insights, performing statistical analysis, or solving business problems), and coding (e.g., Python, R, SQL), or 2 years of experience with a Master's degree.

Nice To Haves

• Master's degree in Statistics, Mathematics, Data Science, Engineering, Physics, Economics, or a related quantitative field.
• Experience working with consumer-facing products.
• Experience working with 0 to 1 products.

Responsibilities

• Research and develop advanced analysis, forecasting, experimentation, ML and optimization methods to identify growth opportunities (e.g., forecasting at scale, user segmentation, user cohort or causal inference modeling, and churn prediction).
• Initiate projects inside and across the organization and drive to completion autonomously.
• Frame and solve ambiguous business problems and communicate the solutions effectively.
• Interact cross-functionally, be a thought partner and influence a wide range of product stakeholders.
• Communicate clearly and persuasively and to influence executive product leadership.

What This Job Offers

• Job Type: Full-time
• Career Level: Mid Level