- San Bruno, CA
- Full-Time
- <72 Hours
Business Data Scientist, Trust and Safety, YouTube.
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Business Data Scientist, Trust and Safety, YouTube: our view in 3 lines...
- The Role:This role is for a business data scientist focused on trust and safety for YouTube.
- The Person:The person will develop abuse and operational metrics, design and scale analysis frameworks and AI-based systems, and partner with cross-functional teams on quantitative analyses and process improvements.
- Requirements:The ideal candidate has a master's degree in a quantitative discipline, 3 years of experience using analytics, coding in Python, R and SQL, and experience with Generative AI pipelines.
About the role
Minimum qualifications:
- Master's degree in a quantitative discipline such as Statistics, Engineering, Sciences, or equivalent practical experience.
- 3 years of experience using analytics to solve product or business problems, coding (e.g., Python, R, SQL), querying databases or statistical analysis, or a relevant PhD degree.
Preferred qualifications:
- 4 years of experience using analytics to solve product or business problems, coding (e.g., Python, R, SQL), querying databases or statistical analysis, or a relevant PhD degree.
- Experience architecting scalable enterprise AI solutions and Generative AI pipelines.
- Experience in project management and process optimization with AI or data analytics.
- Familiar with abuse prevention, policy and regulatory systems.
- Proven ability to proactively take ownership of projects by setting and achieving milestones, synthesizing input from many stakeholders, managing multiple projects simultaneously, creating outputs appropriate to the audience(s) and driving final deliverables.
- Excellent written and verbal communication skills.
About the job:
Google's leadership team hand-picks thorny business challenges, and members of BizOps work in small teams to find solutions. As part of this team you fully immerse yourself in data collection, draw insight from analysis, and then zoom out to develop compelling, synthesized recommendations. Taking strategy one step further, you also persuasively communicate your recommendations to senior-level executives, roll-up your sleeves to help drive implementation and check back-in to see the impact of your recommendations.
As a Business Data Scientist, you will work with key partners to develop business intuition and frame ambiguous safety issues into tractable problem formulations. With your expertise, you will help deliver on YouTube’s mission to give everyone a voice, show them the world, and build a community. Your role will be critical to YouTube by enabling efficient, high-quality, and precise operations to protect our global platform and users.
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
Learn more about benefits at Google.
Responsibilities:
- Develop, build, and measure performance on YouTube-wide abuse performance metrics and operational metrics (productivity, efficiency, timeliness, etc.), and generate insights to improve the business's ability to decrease the prevalence of violative content on the platform.
- Lead the design, implementation, and scaling of metrics, analysis frameworks, and AI-based systems, creating standardized and defensible solutions applicable across products and violation areas.
- Learn complex and technical concepts and systems and deliver meaningful results using them. Communicate highly technical results and methods clearly.
- Partner with Data Science, Product, Research, and Strategy teams to prioritize and execute sophisticated quantitative analyses and advanced modeling that deliver actionable insights.
- Analyze processes to identify opportunities for improvement, define requirements, and collaborate cross-functionally and globally to improve processes and tools as AI-Native.

