Manager, Geo
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.
In this role, you will drive our initiatives to enable global operational excellence, advise the data-driven strategy for Geo’s critical emerging markets and provide insights that touch user journeys across the whole spectrum of the Maps space, from helping users find the best restaurant with a voice query to enable companies leveraging our APIs to service millions of people. You will manage a high-impact team of analysts to provide the data foundation necessary to steer Geo’s strategy across multiple organizational boundaries and large variety of executive stakeholders answering questions.
Responsibilities
- Partner with stakeholders across multiple functions (Product Management/Program Management/Software Engineering/UX) to create data driven strategies accounting for a variety of users and requirements across geospatial use cases.
- Prioritize and communicate user needs, making recommendations and driving implementation for product or process changes to identify top challenges and key strategic growth opportunities.
- Perform large-scale data analysis, modeling, time series decomposition and more to identify opportunities for improvement and measure shifts in Engineering and Operations deployments worth >$400M.
- Oversee the development of data layers, metrics and modeling to guide Geo Operations' AI Transformation. Expand investigative frameworks to synthesize consumer insights, developer perspectives, and routing quality to create holistic, end-to-end narratives for strategic Maps markets.
- Execute advanced attribution modeling to quantify the direct impact of data quality improvements on product growth, user reach, and engagement.
Minimum qualifications:
- Bachelor's degree in Statistics, Mathematics, Data Science, Engineering, Physics, Economics, or a related quantitative field.
- 10 years of experience using analytics to solve product or business problems, performing statistical analysis, and coding (e.g., Python, R, SQL) or 8 years of experience with a Master's degree.
- 3 years of experience as a people manager within a technical leadership role.
Preferred qualifications:
- Master's degree in Statistics, Mathematics, Data Science, Engineering, Physics, Economics, or a related quantitative field.
- 12 years of experience using analytics to solve product or business problems, performing statistical analysis, and coding (e.g., Python, R, SQL).
- 4 years of experience as a people manager within a technical leadership role.
- Ability to take initiatives and address ambiguous questions.
- Excellent data visualization skills.