Product Data Scientist, YouTube Shorts Growth

San Bruno, CA, US Until 10/4/2026 5+ years exp First posted August 5, 2026 Last posted August 5, 2026
Job description

About the Job

In this role, you will be a part of YouTube Data Science, a team that directly influences and informs YouTube’s product and engineering leadership as it has a long history of working on projects that are at the heart of the business and have a seat at the table when it comes to the decisions that drive YouTube's continued success. The Data Science team advises on strategy, metrics, and product changes that improve these 0 to 1 experiences for our users. Your mission is to improve decisions at YouTube with science. On YouTube Shorts Growth, you can projects that entail: Strategic analysis on headroom and growth lever prioritization. User funnel analysis - measuring casual to core usage among users. Design and analysis of experiments.

Individual pay is determined by factors including job-related skills, experience, and relevant education or training.

US: $138000 - $197000 (USD) + 15% bonus target + equity + benefits

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Responsibilities

  • Engage with stakeholders across cross-functional projects and team settings to identify and clarify business or product questions to answer, while providing feedback to translate and refine business questions into tractable analysis, evaluation metrics, or mathematical models.
  • Leverage custom data infrastructure or existing data models as appropriate, using specialized knowledge to design and evaluate models that mathematically express and solve defined problems with limited precedent.
  • Work with the engineering and product teams to create new metrics, maintain classifiers, enable insights, and drive data-driven decision making.
  • Own the process of gathering, extracting, and compiling data across sources via relevant tools (e.g., SQL, R, Python), formatting, re-structuring, or validate data to ensure quality, and review the dataset to ensure it is ready for analysis.
  • Support launch decisions through experimental design and analysis.

Qualifications

Minimum qualifications:

  • Bachelor's degree in Statistics, Data Science, Mathematics, Physics, Economics, Operations Research, Engineering, or a related quantitative field.
  • 5 years of work experience using analytics to solve product or business problems, performing statistical analysis, and coding (e.g., Python, R, SQL) or 2 years of work experience with a Master's degree.
  • Experience with running experiments or experimental design.

Preferred qualifications:

  • Experience with distributed computing using R or Python.
  • Experience with user funnel analysis or measuring casual to core usage among users.
About this role

Summary

Analyze data and design experiments to improve YouTube Shorts user growth.

Job title

Product Data Scientist, YouTube Shorts Growth

Experience level

5+ years

Minimum experience

5+ years exp

Industry

technology

Location requirements

San Bruno, CA, USA, on-site, no remote work allowed

Salary

$138k–$197k

Management role

No

Skills & keywords

Required skills

statisticsdata sciencePythonSQLexperiment design

Preferred skills

distributed computingfunnel analysis

Specializations

statisticsdata analysisexperiment designSQLPython
Locations

Structured locations inferred from the posting.

San Bruno, CA, USA

On-site City