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.

The Google Home team focuses on hardware, software and services offerings for the home, ranging from thermostats to smart displays. The Home team researches, designs, and develops new technologies and hardware to make users’ homes more helpful. Our mission is the helpful home: to create a home that cares for the people inside it and the world around it.

The US base salary range for this full-time position is $227,000-$320,000 + 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

• Perform analysis utilizing relevant tools (e.g., SQL, R, Python). Direct projects that combine problem-solving and organizational complexity towards clear, sound, and actionable decisions.

• Own projects end-to-end, covering problem definition, metrics development, data extraction and manipulation, visualization, creation, and implementation of statistical models, and presentation to stakeholders.

• Address ambiguous or new problems by using the capabilities of existing systems and collaborate to turn broad problems into work for the team.

• Serve as strategic partner to executive product leadership across the home organization to ensure alignment on priorities, anticipate problem-solving needs, and guide strategic product and business decisions.

• Set Data Scientist (DS) strategy for the organization and lead cross-functional initiatives across data engineering, strategy, and business operations that anticipate and develop the data sets, tools and processes to scale DS capabilities and efficient decisions.

Minimum qualifications

• Bachelor's degree in Statistics, Mathematics, Data Science, Engineering, Physics, Economics, or a related quantitative field or equivalent practical experience.

• 13 years of experience using analytics to solve product or business problems, performing statistical analysis, and coding (e.g., Python, R, SQL), or 10 years of work experience with an advanced degree.

• 5 years of experience working as a people manager within a technical leadership role.

Preferred qualifications

• Master's degree in Statistics, Mathematics, Data Science, Engineering, Physics, Economics, or a related quantitative field.

• 15 years of experience using analytics to solve product or business problems, performing statistical analysis, and coding (e.g., Python, R, SQL).

• 6 years of experience working as a people manager within a technical leadership role.