Senior Data Scientist, Product, Play Store and Ads

**Job Description:** As a Data Scientist at Google, you will play a crucial role in providing quantitative support, market understanding, and strategic perspectives to partners across the organization. You will use your analytical expertise to help partners make informed decisions based on data insights. Your responsibilities will involve conducting analyses, designing A/B experiments, defining metrics, and providing clear recommendations to enhance the user experience and drive business success. **Key Responsibilities:** - Conduct analyses of large datasets to gain insights into user behavior, app/game discovery patterns, and the impact of features and ads within the Play Store. - Design and implement sophisticated A/B experiments for new Play Store features, UI changes, personalization algorithms, and ad formats/placements. - Define appropriate metrics, success criteria, and guardrails, balancing user experience, developer success, and advertiser value. - Provide actionable recommendations based on experiment results, ensuring statistical significance and practical implications are considered. - Apply statistical methods and machine learning techniques to develop models for personalization, recommendations, user segmentation, lifetime value prediction, or auction optimization. **Qualifications Required:** - Bachelor's degree in Statistics, Mathematics, Data Science, Engineering, Physics, Economics, or a related quantitative field. - 8 years of experience using analytics to solve product or business problems, performing statistical analysis, and coding in languages such as Python, R, and SQL; or 5 years of experience with a Master's degree. **About The Company:** At Google Play, we offer a wide range of digital content for devices, powered by the cloud, catering to a global user base. Our team works on engineering backend systems, shaping product strategy, and forming content partnerships to enhance the Android ecosystem. We strive to provide users with seamless experiences across devices and platforms, ensuring easy access to a variety of content. (Note: The additional details about Google Play and its team have been included for context and understanding of the company's operations.),