Product Data Scientist, Payments

Job description

**Minimum qualifications:** - Bachelor's degree in Statistics, Mathematics, Data Science, Engineering, Physics, Economics, or a related quantitative field, or equivalent practical experience. - 5 years of experience with analysis applications (e.g., extracting insights, performing statistical analysis, or solving business problems), and coding (e.g., Python, R, SQL), or 2 years of experience with a Master's degree. **Preferred qualifications:** - Master's degree in Statistics, Mathematics, Data Science, Engineering, Physics, Economics, or a related quantitative field. **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. 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. **Responsibilities** - Shape the future of Google Payments by leveraging data and analytics to drive decisions, influence strategy, and create business impact across the organization. - Identify and solve ambiguous, high-stakes problems, transforming data into clear, actionable insights that directly influence leadership decisions (e.g., Vice Presidents (VP) and Directors). - Lead complex projects that combine investigative excellence with organizational strategy, delivering clear and actionable insights that inform tangible business decisions. - Become a strategic thought partner to stakeholders across product, engineering, and executive leadership, influencing key decisions at multiple levels. - Contribute to the development and alignment of team Objectives and Key Results (OKRs) and analytics strategy to ensure they support broader product and business goals across the Payments organization. Google is proud to be an equal opportunity workplace and is an affirmative action employer. We are committed to equal employment opportunity regardless of race, color, ancestry, religion, sex, national origin, sexual orientation, age, citizenship, marital status, disability, gender identity or Veteran status. We also consider qualified applicants regardless of criminal histories, consistent with legal requirements. See also Google's EEO Policy and EEO is the Law. If you have a disability or special need that requires accommodation, please let us know by completing our Accommodations for Applicants form .