Research Data Scientist, Ads Insights

Google

Mountain View, California, United StatesFull-time$147,000–$210,000Posted Nov 3, 2026

About the role

MINIMUM QUALIFICATIONS:

  • 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 QUALIFICATIONS:

  • 5 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.

ABOUT THE JOB:

Google’s advertising measurement team focuses on combining data at scale with

formal science to make this possible. Our science helps make advertising useful

and delightful to our users, and valuable and results-driven for our advertisers

and publishers.

As a Data Scientist working on Ads Insights, you will play a key role in

developing new ideas and methods that drive business generation, including

paradigm-shifting products for the privacy-preserving future of digital

advertising. In doing so, you will be a key part of building and driving impact

on large-scale ad systems both at Google and in the ad-tech and mar-tech

industry as a whole, globally.

Individual pay is determined by factors including job-related skills,

experience, and relevant education or training.

US: $147000 - $210000 (USD) + 15% bonus target + equity + benefits

Learn more about benefits at Google

[https://www.google.com/about/careers/applications/benefits/].

RESPONSIBILITIES:

  • Help suggest, guide, and shape new data-driven and privacy-preserving

advertising and marketing products in collaboration with engineering,

product, and customer-facing teams.

  • Collaborate with teams to define relevant questions about advertising

effectiveness, incrementality assessment, the impact of privacy, user

behavior, brand building, targeting, bidding, etc., and develop and implement

quantitative methods to answer those questions.

  • Find ways to combine large-scale experimentation, statistical-econometric,

machine learning, and social-science methods to answer business questions at

scale.

  • Use causal inference methods to design and suggest experiments and new ways

to establish causality, assess attribution, and answer questions using data.

  • Build and prototype analysis pipelines iteratively to provide insights at

scale, and develop comprehensive knowledge of Google data structures and

metrics, advocating for changes where needed for product development.

Responsibilities

  • Shape privacy-preserving advertising and marketing products with engineering, product, and customer-facing teams.
  • Define advertising effectiveness questions and develop quantitative methods to answer them.
  • Combine experimentation, statistical-econometric, machine learning, and social-science methods to address business questions at scale.
  • Use causal inference to design experiments, assess attribution, and establish causality.
  • Build analysis pipelines and develop knowledge of Google data structures and metrics.

Qualifications

  • Master's degree in a quantitative field or a PhD degree.
  • At least 3 years of experience using analytics, coding, database querying, or statistical analysis to solve product or business problems.
  • Preferred: 5 years of relevant experience.

Benefits

  • 15% target bonus
  • Equity
  • Benefits

Skills mentioned

Data ScienceData AnalysisPythonRSQLStatistical AnalysisStatistical ModelingMachine LearningData PipelinesExploratory Data Analysis

About Google

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