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 be responsible for translating business problems into analytical solutions, improving data pipelines, developing evaluation metrics, and building statistical models. The role involves partnering with internal teams, developing customer-centric strategies, and creating evaluation frameworks for models and metrics. While the role uses data science and machine learning techniques, its primary focus is on business and marketing outcomes rather than core AI/ML development.

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.
  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.

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

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