Role Overview
The YouTube Data Science team is responsible for influencing and informing YouTube’s product and engineering leadership teams. As a Research Data Scientist, you will work alongside a large analyst team to uncover actionable data-driven insights that inform product roadmaps and strategy.
What You Will Do
You will need to have a background or a flair for topics related to economics, especially economics of paid subscription services. You will collaborate with stakeholders to identify and clarify business or product questions to answer, provide feedback to translate and refine business questions into tractable analysis, and design and evaluate models to mathematically express and solve defined problems.
Why It Might Be a Fit
The role requires a strong background in data science, analytics, and economics, with the ability to communicate complex ideas to stakeholders. You will need to have a flair for topics related to economics, especially economics of paid subscription services.
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
- Ability to read and apply quantitative methodologies from books, papers, etc.
- Ability to take open-ended problems, provide better definition and eventually solutions
- Ability to communicate well (and the so what) with data
Benefits
- Determined by factors including job-related skills, experience, and relevant education or training
- 15% bonus target
- Equity
- Benefits
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