Research Data Scientist, Brand Bidding Optimization, YouTube Ads

Mountain View, CA (On-site)

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

Posted 11 days ago

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Job Summary

Own end-to-end data-driven initiatives from question framing to delivering models and optimization solutions that impact product metrics.

  • Own the data gathering and quality checks across sources using SQL, Python, or R.
  • Design and evaluate models and optimization approaches to solve defined business questions.
  • Collaborate with stakeholders to translate goals into measurable metrics and strategies.

Job Description

Responsibilities

  • Collaborate with stakeholders in cross-projects and team settings to identify and clarify business or product questions to answer. Provide feedback to translate and refine business questions into tractable analysis, evaluation metrics, or mathematical models.
  • Use custom data infrastructure or existing data models as appropriate, using specialized knowledge. 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, R, Python). Independently format, re-structure, and/or validate data to ensure quality, and review the dataset to ensure it is ready for analysis.
  • Build optimization solutions encompassing targeting relevance, creative recommendation, bidding optimization, and impact measurement.

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.
  • Experience in operations research, game theory, or machine learning.
  • Experience in digital advertising or brand advertising.

Preferred

  • PhD degree in Statistics, Data Science, Mathematics, Physics, Economics, Operations Research, Engineering, or a related quantitative field.
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