Research Data Scientist, Brand Advertising, Youtube Ads

Google Google · Big Tech · Mountain View, CA +1

This role focuses on building optimization solutions for brand advertising on YouTube, leveraging quantitative methods like operations research, game theory, statistics, and machine learning. The responsibilities include identifying business questions, designing and evaluating models, data gathering and validation, and collaborating with engineers and project managers to launch data-driven analyses into production. The role requires experience in online marketplace design, adtech, and causal inference.

What you'd actually do

  1. Collaborate with stakeholders in cross-projects and team settings to identify and clarify business or product questions to answer and provide feedback to translate and refine business questions into tractable analysis, evaluation metrics, or mathematical models.
  2. Use custom data infrastructure or existing data models as appropriate using specialized knowledge and design and evaluate models to mathematically express and solve defined problems with limited precedent.
  3. Gather information, business goals, priorities, and organizational context around questions to answer and existing and upcoming data infrastructure.
  4. Own the process of gathering, extracting, and compiling data across sources via relevant tools (e.g., SQL, R, Python); separately format, re-structure, or validate data to ensure quality; and review the dataset to ensure it is ready for analysis.

Skills

Required

  • Statistics
  • Data Science
  • Mathematics
  • Physics
  • Economics
  • Operations Research
  • Engineering
  • Python
  • R
  • SQL
  • online marketplace design
  • adtech
  • causal inference

Nice to have

  • PhD degree in a quantitative field such as Engineering, Computer Science, Mathematics, Statistics, Economics, or Business Science
  • 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

What the JD emphasized

  • 3 years of experience using analytics to solve product or business problems
  • 3 years of work experience with online marketplace design, adtech, and causal inference