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YouTube · 3 hours ago

Staff Data Scientist, YouTube Shopping and Horizontal

positionSan Bruno, CA
timeFull-time
remoteOnsite
seniorityLead/Staff
money$197K/yr - $291K/yr
date8+ years exp

YouTube is committed to empowering individuals to share their stories and build community through technology and creativity. They are seeking a Staff Data Scientist to collaborate with stakeholders, design and evaluate mathematical models, and ensure data quality for analysis. This role involves leveraging data infrastructure to solve product and business challenges.

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Responsibilities

Collaborate with stakeholders in cross-projects and team settings to identify and clarify business or product questions, providing feedback to translate and refine them into analysis, evaluation metrics, or mathematical models
Leverage custom data infrastructure or existing data models using specialized knowledge to design and evaluate models that mathematically express and solve defined problems
Gather information, business goals, priorities, and organizational context around the questions to answer, including the existing and upcoming data infrastructure
Own the process of gathering, extracting, and compiling data across sources via relevant tools (e.g., SQL, R, Python), formatting, re-structuring, or validating data to ensure quality, and readiness for analysis

Qualification

Master's degreeData SciencePythonRSQLClassifiersStatistical analysisAnalytics experiencePhD degreeSoft skills

Required

Master's degree in Statistics, Data Science, Mathematics, Physics, Economics, Operations Research, Engineering, or a related quantitative field
8 years of work experience using analytics to solve product or business problems, coding (e.g., Python, R, SQL), querying databases or statistical analysis, or 6 years of work experience with a PhD degree

Preferred

10 years of work experience using analytics to solve product or business problems, coding (e.g., Python, R, SQL), querying databases or statistical analysis, or 8 years of work experience with a PhD degree
Experience with classifiers

Benefits

Bonus
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Company

YouTube

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YouTube is a platform for sharing and watching videos, including movies, music clips, and amateur content.
dateFounded in 2005
location
San Bruno, California, USA
people-size1001-5000 employees
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https://www.youtube.com

H1B Sponsorship

YouTube has a track record of offering H1B sponsorships. Please note that this does not guarantee sponsorship for this specific role. Below presents additional info for your reference. (Data Powered by US Department of Labor)
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Funding

Current Stage
Late Stage
Total Funding
$11.5M
Key Investors
Sequoia Capital
2006-10-01Acquired
2006-03-30Series Unknown· $8M
2005-11-01Series A· $3.5M

Leadership Team

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Neal Mohan
CEO
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Angela Courtin
Vice President, YouTube Marketing Brand, Creative, Culture & Media
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