Staff Product Data Scientist, Consumer Payments Experience
Role summary
This Staff Product Data Scientist role at Google focuses on shaping Consumer Payments products by providing data-driven insights and strategic recommendations to leadership. The position involves analyzing business, product, growth, acquisition, and operational metrics, developing key user interaction metrics, and collaborating with Product, Engineering, and Operations teams. The ideal candidate will transform complex data into actionable insights, solve ambiguous problems, and influence decision-making across the organization. This role requires a strong background in data analysis, product strategy, and program management within a technology context, with a focus on making payments simple, seamless, and secure for over a billion users.
### Minimum qualifications:
- Bachelor's degree or equivalent practical experience.
- 10 years of experience in management consulting, product management and strategy, or analytics in a technology company.
- Experience working with data analysis, and managing multiple cross-functional programs or projects.
### Preferred qualifications:
- Master's degree or PhD.
- Experience with R, SQL, spreadsheets, or similar analytics tools.
- Experience working with product and engineering teams.
- Excellent written and verbal communication skills.
## 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.
As a Staff Product Data Scientist, you will help shape Payments products, helping our leaders make strategic decisions. You will coordinate across functions to dissect business, product, growth, acquisition, and operational metrics. You will proactively help leverage data, conduct analyses and make final business recommendations, collaborating with Product teams to help build future looking business models. In this role, you will handle multiple projects at a time, focusing on the details and finding creative ways to take on big picture challenges.
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.
The US base salary range for this full-time position is $192,000-$278,000 + bonus + equity + benefits. Our salary ranges are determined by role, level, and location. Within the range, individual pay is determined by work location and additional factors, including job-related skills, experience, and relevant education or training. Your recruiter can share more about the specific salary range for your preferred location during the hiring process.
Please note that the compensation details listed in US role postings reflect the base salary only, and do not include bonus, equity, or benefits. Learn more about benefits at Google.
## Responsibilities
- Identify and solve ambiguous, high-stakes problems, transforming data into clear, actionable insights that directly influence leadership decisions (e.g., VPs and Directors).
- Develop metrics across various user interaction within payments user flows.
- Elevate the role of data science within the organization by maintaining high standards of technical excellence, clear communication, and impactful stakeholder influence.
- Collaborate cross-functionally with Product, Engineering, and Operations teams to define key metrics and support data-driven decision-making.
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