Senior Business Data Scientist, YouTube Partner Program
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Minimum qualifications:
- 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.
Preferred qualifications:
- 6 years of experience using analytics to solve product or business problems, coding (e.g., Python, R, SQL), querying databases or statistical analysis.
- Experience in trust & safety, abuse detection, policy, or operations analytics.
- Experience in designing, building, and maintaining automated data pipelines and ETL processes (e.g., using Plx Workflows, Flume).
- Deep understanding and application of statistical principles, experimental design (A/B testing), and causal inference techniques.
- Expert-level SQL skills, including complex joins, query optimization, and working with large datasets.
- Advanced proficiency in Python or R for statistical modeling, machine learning, data manipulation, and automation.
About the job
Google's leadership team hand-picks thorny business challenges, and members of BizOps work in small teams to find solutions. As part of this team you fully immerse yourself in data collection, draw insight from analysis, and then zoom out to develop compelling, synthesized recommendations. Taking strategy one step further, you also persuasively communicate your recommendations to senior-level executives, roll-up your sleeves to help drive implementation and check back-in to see the impact of your recommendations.
Fast-paced, dynamic, and proactive, YouTube’s Trust & Safety team is dedicated to making YouTube a safe place for users, viewers, and content creators around the world to create and express themselves. Whether understanding and solving their online content concerns, navigating within global legal frameworks, or writing and enforcing worldwide policy, the Trust & Safety team is on the front-lines of enhancing the YouTube experience, building internet safety, and protecting free speech in our ever-evolving digital world.
The YouTube Trust & Safety Analytics team mission is "To be the most trusted and integral strategic partner to our stakeholders, by embedding our expertise into their decisions and defining our brand by the speed and foresight we deliver."
The YouTube Partner Program (YPP) Analytics team operates in a high-stakes environment, providing comprehensive analytics for verticals that rely on complex tooling. We manage a rigorous cadence of high-visibility executive reporting, where frequent and significant policy changes directly impact north-star metrics and other core operational metrics. As the demand for sophisticated insights continues to accelerate, the YPP Analytics team remains critical in navigating this increasing complexity and driving strategic decision-making across the platform.
At YouTube, we believe that everyone deserves to have a voice, and that the world is a better place when we listen, share, and build community through our stories. We work together to give everyone the power to share their story, explore what they love, and connect with one another in the process. Working at the intersection of cutting-edge technology and boundless creativity, we move at the speed of culture with a shared goal to show people the world. We explore new ideas, solve real problems, and have fun — and we do it all together.
The US base salary range for this full-time position is $163,000-$239,000 + bonus + equity + benefits. Our salary ranges are determined by role, level, and location. Within the range, individual pay is determined by work location and additional factors, including job-related skills, experience, and relevant education or training. Your recruiter can share more about the specific salary range for your preferred location during the hiring process.
Please note that the compensation details listed in US role postings reflect the base salary only, and do not include bonus, equity, or benefits. Learn more about benefits at Google.
Responsibilities
- Own, maintain, and evolve metrics and risk profiling frameworks to ensure safe feature launches for YPP, proactively identifying gaps and designing improvements.
- Design, build, and own models to assess operational capacity on new product launches, guiding resource allocation strategies based on model insights and ensuring model robustness.
- Define and lead the estimation of precision/recall, design and interpret A/B tests, and conduct in-depth user impact analyses for YPP policies, generating strategic insights to influence launch processes and post-launch monitoring. Design, build, and maintain robust, automated data pipelines and investigation frameworks to monitor launch safety, detect emerging abuse, and measure ops performance.
- Collaborate with and influence product partners on launching broader metrics infrastructure for new features and shaping the future roadmap.
- Develop and implement low-latency reporting and innovative sampling strategies for high-risk feature launches.
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