Research Data Scientist, YouTube Gaming Discovery

San Bruno, CA (On-site)

$147K/yr – $211K/yrSenior Level3+ years expFull time

Posted 2 months ago

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Job Summary

Translate business questions into analytic work by framing problems, gathering data, and building validated models that solve definitions with limited precedent.

  • Collaborative problem framing: translate business questions into metrics or models with stakeholders.
  • Data gathering and validation: pull and clean data across sources to ensure analysis readiness.
  • Model design and evaluation: create mathematical representations and test against defined objectives.

Job Description

Responsibilities

  • Collaborate with stakeholders in cross-project and team settings to identify and clarify business or product questions to answer. Provide feedback to translate and refine business questions into analysis, evaluation metrics or mathematical models.
  • Use custom data infrastructure or existing data models. Design and evaluate models to mathematically express and solve defined problems with limited precedent.
  • Gather information, business goals, priorities and organizational context around the questions to answer as well as the existing and upcoming data infrastructure.
  • Own the process of gathering, extracting and compiling data across sources via relevant tools (e.g., SQL and Python). Format, re-structure or validate data to ensure quality and review the dataset to ensure it is ready for analysis.

Requirements

  • Master's degree in Statistics, Data Science, Mathematics, Physics, Economics, Operations Research, Engineering or a related quantitative field.
  • 3 years of work experience using analytics to solve product or business problems, coding (e.g., Python, R, SQL), querying databases or statistical analysis, or a PhD degree.

Preferred

  • Experience with machine learning and experiment design principles.
  • Experience with recommender systems.
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