Research Data Scientist, Ads Metrics, Ads Experiences

About the job

Ads Metrics is the DS team for Search ads. We support the SAGE (Search Ads and Google Experience) organization in developing the most important ad products at Google from classic text ads, to rich shopping ads, to exciting new products like discovery ads. These products - the heart of Google’s business are complex, advanced, and they are rapidly growing and evolving. The Ads Experiences Data Science (DS) team is a subteam within ads metrics that drives analyses to help AdsUI team improve AdsUI, formats, and whole page experiences.

Minimum qualifications:

• Master's degree in Statistics, Data Science, Mathematics, Physics, Economics, Operations Research, Engineering, or a related quantitative field.
  
• 3 years of work experience using analytics to solve product or business problems, coding (e.g., Python, R, SQL), querying databases or statistical analysis, or a PhD degree.
  

Preferred qualifications:

• 5 years of work experience using analytics to solve product or business problems, coding (e.g., Python, R, SQL), querying databases or statistical analysis, or a PhD degree.
  

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.
  
• Use custom data infrastructure or existing data models as appropriate, using specialized knowledge. Design and evaluate models to mathematically express and solve defined problems with limited precedent.
  
• 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, or validate data to ensure quality, and review the dataset to ensure it is ready for analysis.