Senior Business and Marketing Data Scientist

Google Google · Big Tech · Dublin, Ireland

This role focuses on applying data science and advanced analytics to solve business and marketing challenges within Google. The Senior Business and Marketing Data Scientist will translate business problems into analytical solutions, develop statistical models, improve data pipelines, and build evaluation metrics. The role involves partnering with internal teams, driving strategic initiatives, and influencing stakeholders to deliver customer-centric, data-driven insights for marketing and product impact. While AI tools may be used, the core function is not building AI models but rather applying data science for business insights and optimization.

What you'd actually do

  1. Provide support in media strategy, measurement and optimization that require expertise in advanced analytics work, with special focus on marketing analytics methods and data science.
  2. Partner with internal teams in advanced analytics work including experimentation, measurement and modeling. Identify patterns and behaviors that are effective predictors of performance and critical drivers for a successful media plan.
  3. Deliver customer-centric, data-driven approach, based on a people-based marketing strategy to build, segment, and test audiences for best business results.
  4. Partner with internal teams to scope, build and deliver strategic initiatives driving all things marketing data, with a strong focus on digital marketing data pipelines.
  5. Develop evaluation frameworks for large-scale models, new metrics, and investigate anomalies. Frame and solve ambiguous problems by scoping technical priorities and innovating on statistical methods.

Skills

Required

  • Master's degree in a quantitative discipline such as Statistics, Engineering, Sciences, or equivalent practical experience.
  • 4 years of experience using analytics to solve product or business problems, coding (e.g., Python, R, SQL), querying databases or statistical analysis.
  • Experience with statistical programming in experimental design and data validation.
  • Experience managing end-to-end brand measurement frameworks, including brand lift studies, Marketing Mix Modeling (MMM), or Multi-Touch Attribution (MTA).

Nice to have

  • 8 years of experience delivering marketing analytics, marketing mix modeling, geo experiments, meta analysis, audience segmentation, and propensity modeling.
  • Experience working in root cause analysis to ensure that problems are solved at both a tactical and strategic level.
  • Experiences with experimental design and supervised/unsupervised machine learning approaches for both regression and classification tasks.
  • Understanding of Bayesian approaches and modeling frameworks and applied knowledge of R or Python for statistical analysis and SQL including end-to-end automation of analytics pipelines and workflows.
  • Ability to generate practical solutions for marketing analytics problems and use results to drive business change.

What the JD emphasized

  • advanced analytics work
  • marketing analytics methods
  • data science
  • digital marketing data pipelines
  • evaluation frameworks for large-scale models
  • statistical methods