Research Data Scientist, YouTube Creator

San Bruno, CA, US Mountain View, CA, US Until 9/8/2026 3+ years exp First posted July 10, 2026 Last posted July 10, 2026
Job description

About the Job

YouTube Data Science team influences and informs YouTube’s product and engineering leadership. We have 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. Our mission statement? Improving decisions at YouTube with science.

The focus of the Creator Data Science team is to understand the growth and behavior of YouTube's creator ecosystem from traditional media companies to individual creators who are just getting started, and build tools, systems, and policies that help creators grow on the platform. In this role, you will be involved in collaborations across the Creator organization and format teams (e.g., Shorts, Live) as we build a holistic understanding of the creator ecosystem and business generation.

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

US: $147000 - $211000 (USD) + 15% bonus target + equity + benefits

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Responsibilities

  • Work with the engineering and product teams to create new metrics, maintain classifiers, enable insights, and drive data-driven decision making.
  • Work with data sets and solve investigative issues to understand how brand agreement performs and the impact of new features.
  • Conduct end-to-end analysis, including data gathering and requirements specification, processing, analysis, ongoing deliverables and presentations.
  • Make business recommendations with effective presentations of findings at multiple levels of stakeholders through visual displays of quantitative information.
  • Support launch decisions through experimental design and analysis.

Qualifications

Minimum qualifications:

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

Preferred qualifications:

  • 5 years of work experience using analytics to solve product or business problems, coding (e.g., Python, R, SQL), querying databases or statistical analysis, or a PhD degree.
About this role

Summary

Analyze data and build tools to improve YouTube creator ecosystem insights.

Job title

Research Data Scientist, YouTube Creator

Experience level

3+ years

Minimum experience

3+ years exp

Industry

technology

Location requirements

On-site in California; remote not specified.

Salary

$147k–$211k

Management role

No

Skills & keywords

Required skills

PythonSQLstatisticsdata analysis

Preferred skills

None specified

Specializations

statisticsdata analysisprogrammingexperimental design
Locations

Structured locations inferred from the posting.

San Bruno, CA, USA

On-site City

Mountain View, CA, USA

On-site City
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