Senior Data Scientist, Product, YouTube Growth

About the job

Help serve Google's worldwide user base of more than a billion people. Data Scientists provide quantitative support, market understanding and a strategic perspective to our partners throughout the organization. As a data-loving member of the team, you serve as an analytics expert for your partners, using numbers to help them make better decisions. You will weave stories with meaningful insight from data. You'll make critical recommendations for your fellow Googlers in Engineering and Product Management. You relish tallying up the numbers one minute and communicating your findings to a team leader the next.

As a Data Scientist on the YouTube Growth team, you will play a pivotal role in driving YouTube's expansion by leveraging data to pinpoint, quantify, and refine growth opportunities across the platform. You will conduct analyses and develop insightful recommendations that directly influence product strategy and business decisions. Your work will involve deep dives into user behavior, experimentation, and metric development to unlock new avenues for growth and engagement. You will conduct in-depth analyses to identify key drivers of user growth and engagement across YouTube product areas. You will perform user-level and funnel analysis to proactively identify and size new areas of product investment. You will design and implement experiments to test and optimize growth strategies, including A/B testing and other statistical methods. You will design, test, and implement new metrics to measure growth and product performance. You will collaborate closely with cross-functional teams to translate data insights into actionable recommendations that inform product and business decisions.