Senior Business Data Scientist, Trust and Safety

Google Google · Big Tech · Austin, TX +1

This role focuses on designing and developing metrics and measurements for Trust and Safety across various Google products. The Senior Business Data Scientist will leverage Google's production data infrastructure and AI-based content rating systems to drive business optimization and meet regulatory reporting requirements. Responsibilities include leading statistical design, implementing data pipelines, and collaborating with engineering and business stakeholders to make data-backed decisions.

What you'd actually do

  1. Acquire an understanding of the product, trust and safety (T&S) manual and automated processes, tools, and customer expectations. Design and develop scalable measurements to support reporting needs.
  2. Lead the statistical design, definition, and implementation of metrics such as the uncaught badness rate, creating standardized, and defensible measurements applicable across products and violation areas.
  3. Design, implement, and own the technical implementation of production-level data pipelines, documentation, and the code check-in process.
  4. Build and scale artificial intelligence (AI)-based content rating systems in partnership with engineering teams and measure the efficiency gains accurately from the same.
  5. Collaborate with business and engineering stakeholders to ensure our data is telling the right story and helping stakeholders make data-backed decisions. Present findings and business recommendations to multiple levels of stakeholders and leadership teams.

Skills

Required

  • Master's degree in a quantitative discipline (e.g., Statistics, Engineering, and 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.

Nice to have

  • 6 years of experience in a global business driving business outcomes using data analysis, statistical analysis, data pipelines (e.g., SQL), and dashboard solutions (e.g., Tableau, Qlik).
  • 3 years of experience in utilizing data science techniques to solve business issues, including using statistical modeling techniques and programming languages (e.g., Python or R) for data analysis.
  • Experience in trust and safety, content moderation, or risk analysis.
  • Experience in leading technical projects, influencing cross-functional teams and navigating ambiguous environments.
  • Excellent communication, people-management, and stakeholder skills, with the ability to translate data into clear, actionable insights for non-technical audiences.

What the JD emphasized

  • regulatory reporting requirements

Other signals

  • designing and developing metrics and measurements needed to support Trust and Safety
  • design innovative data solutions and solve problems using Google’s production data infrastructure
  • Build and scale artificial intelligence (AI)-based content rating systems in partnership with engineering teams