Senior Product Data Scientist, Payments
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Minimum qualifications:
- Bachelor's degree in Statistics, Mathematics, Data Science, Engineering, Physics, Economics, or a related quantitative field.
- 8 years of work experience using analytics to solve product or business problems, performing statistical analysis, and coding (e.g., Python, R, SQL) (or 5 years work experience with a Master's degree).
Preferred qualifications:
- Master's degree in Statistics, Mathematics, Data Science, Engineering, Physics, Economics, or a related quantitative field.
- 8 years of work experience using analytics to solve product or business problems, performing statistical analysis, and coding (e.g., Python, R, SQL).
- Experience in product analytics within Payments, e-commerce, or financial services.
- Ability to manage and organize work sprints for themselves and a team for analysts, align/communicate/agree the same with executive management.
- Ability to lead in unstructured environments, with a bias for action and sharp attention to detail.
- Excellent cross-functional collaboration skills, with experience influencing executive stakeholders through regular communication.
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.
In this role, you will shape Payments products and solutions, helping the leaders make data-driven decisions. You will lead a critical part of Payments routing infra, Smart Router, that utilizes Machine Learning (ML) and Artificial Learning (AI) to process Billions of first-party transactions across Play, YouTube, Ads many other first-parties. You will drive analytics for FOPs optimization, building on success metric, driving insights, global launches to optimize success metrics while also reducing cost. You will also play a critical role in the interactions on B2C analytics with Play and YouTube to optimize Buyflows, Purchase Readiness, Conversion and UI on these critical Google products.
Whether it is paying online with Autofill, using tap and pay in stores, or using the Google Pay app, the Payments team at Google is focused on making payments simple, seamless, and secure. In addition to consumer payment technologies, the Payments team also powers the money movement between Google and its consumers and businesses.
Responsibilities
- Identify and solve ambiguous, high-stakes problems, transforming data into clear, actionable insights that directly influence leadership decisions (VPs and Directors).
- Lead complex projects that combine investigative with organizational strategy, deliver clear and actionable insights that inform business decisions. Become a strategic thought partner to stakeholders across product, engineering, and executive leadership, influencing key decisions at multiple levels.
- Elevate the role of data science within the organization by maintaining high standards of technical excellence, clear communication, and impactful stakeholder influence. Contribute to the development and alignment of team OKRs and analytics strategy to ensure they support broader product and business goals across the Payments organization.
- Collaborate cross-functionally with product, engineering, and operations teams to define key metrics and support data-driven decision-making. Advocate best practices in data science, ensure the adoption of scalable, efficient methodologies across projects.
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