Senior Product Data Scientist, Search Verticals (English, Portuguese)

Minimum qualifications:

• Master's degree in Statistics, Economics, Engineering, Mathematics, a related quantitative field, or equivalent practical experience.
  
• 5 years of experience with statistical data analysis, data mining, and querying (e.g., SQL).
  
• 3 years of experience managing investigative projects.
• Ability to communicate in English and Portuguese fluently to support client relationship management in this region.

Preferred qualifications:

• 5 years of experience in scripting, statistical analysis (e.g., R, Stata, Statistical Package for the Social Sciences (SPSS), Statistical Analysis System (SAS)), developing and managing metrics, and evaluating programs or products.
• 5 years of experience with designing experiments, developing statistical models, measurement, and identifying business opportunities.
• 3 years of experience working in a matrixed organization.
• 1 year of experience preparing and delivering technical presentations to executive leadership.
• Experience in data analysis, problem solving, machine learning, A/B testing.

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.

In Google Search, we're reimagining what it means to search for information – any way and anywhere. To do that, we need to solve complex engineering challenges and expand our infrastructure, while maintaining a universally accessible and useful experience that people around the world rely on. In joining the Search team, you'll have an opportunity to make an impact on billions of people globally.

• Perform analysis utilizing tools (e.g., SQL, R, Python). Help to solve problems, narrow down options into the best approach, and take ownership of business problems to reach an optimal solution.
• Build new processes, procedures, methods, tests, and components with foresight to anticipate and address future issues.
• Report on Key Performance Indicators (KPIs) to support business reviews with the cross-functional/organizational leadership team. Translate analysis results to business insights or product improvement opportunities.
• Build analysis and business cases to provide insights. Develop knowledge of Google data structures and metrics, advocating for changes where needed for product development.
• Influence across teams to align resources and direction.