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# Staff Research Data Scientist, Search Ads Metrics

- **Company:** Google LLC
- **Location:** Mountain View, CA, United States
- **Experience:** Expert
- **Salary:** $207,000.0 - $300,000.0
- **Contract:** Permanent contract
- **Skills:** Data Analysis, Databases, R (Programming Language), Python (Programming Language), SQL Databases
- **Published:** August 14, 2026
- **Apply:** https://dejobs.org/x/x/4A28D9EAE731496CA98AB1583B7CFAC7/job/

## About the Role

Experience owning outcomes and decision making, solving ambiguous problems and influencing stakeholders; deep expertise in domain., * Master's degree in Statistics, Data Science, Mathematics, Physics, Economics, Operations Research, Engineering, or a related quantitative field.

 * 8 years of experience using analytics to solve product or business problems, coding (e.g., Python, R, SQL), querying databases or statistical analysis, or 6 years of experience with a PhD degree., * 10 years of work experience using analytics to solve product or business problems, coding (e.g., Python, R, SQL), querying databases or statistical analysis, or 8 years of work experience with a PhD degree.

## Description

Ads Metrics is the Data Scientist team for Search and O&O ads. We support the SAGE (Search Ads and Google Experience) organization in developing the most important ad products at Google - from classic text ads, to rich shopping ads, to exciting new products like Demand Gen Campaigns, Local Ads, Travel Ads, etc. These products are the heart of Google's business in annual business, are complex, advanced, and they are rapidly growing and evolving.

In this role, you will guide product development and executive decisions with data. You will measure the long term impact of all the changes Google makes on users, advertisers, and Google systems with innovative experiment designs; identify new growth opportunities with deep data analysis; and understand the tradeoffs between user, advertiser and Google value with principled frameworks. You will work closely with the Engineering/PM collaborators to improve the products, and with SAGE executives to understand the growth levers and their impact on business. Your role is to drive long term value for Google's business with insightful data science., * Lead a team of data scientists to contribute to ads business growth by initiating, executing, and presenting impactful analysis and modeling projects.

 * Optimize the Search Ads serving system by delivering valuable business insights from mathematical models.
 * Coach and mentor data scientists by setting clear expectations, evaluating performance, and providing challenges to stretch their skills.
 * Collaborate with product, engineering, executive stakeholders, and other organizations to understand needs, assist in decision-making, and align on solutions.
 * Navigate multiple stakeholders and organizational complexity to drive data-driven product development.


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