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Research Data Scientist, Ads Insights

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Compensation
$147–210K/yr
Location
Mountain View, CA
Work Authorization
Not specified

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Job overview

Google’s Ads Insights team develops data-driven approaches and methods for advertising measurement, including privacy-preserving products for digital advertising. The Research Data Scientist collaborates across engineering, product, and customer-facing teams to investigate advertising effectiveness and related questions, apply quantitative methods, and build analysis pipelines that provide insights at scale.

Skills & qualifications

RequiredNice to have

Skills

AnalyticsPythonRSQLDatabase QueryingStatistical Analysis

Qualifications

Master's in Quantitative Field3 Years Work Experience or PhD5 Years Work Experience or PhDEnglish Proficiency

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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 the job

Google’s advertising measurement team focuses on combining data at scale with formal science to make this possible. Our science helps make advertising useful and delightful to our users, and valuable and results-driven for our advertisers and publishers.

As a Data Scientist working on Ads Insights, you will play a key role in developing new ideas and methods that drive business generation, including paradigm-shifting products for the privacy-preserving future of digital advertising. In doing so, you will be a key part of building and driving impact on large-scale ad systems both at Google and in the ad-tech and mar-tech industry as a whole, globally.

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

US: $147000 - $210000 (USD) + 15% bonus target + equity + benefits

Learn more aboutbenefits at Google (https://www.google.com/about/careers/applications/benefits/) .

Responsibilities

  • Help suggest, guide, and shape new data-driven and privacy-preserving advertising and marketing products in collaboration with engineering, product, and customer-facing teams.

  • Collaborate with teams to define relevant questions about advertising effectiveness, incrementality assessment, the impact of privacy, user behavior, brand building, targeting, bidding, etc., and develop and implement quantitative methods to answer those questions.

  • Find ways to combine large-scale experimentation, statistical-econometric, machine learning, and social-science methods to answer business questions at scale.

  • Use causal inference methods to design and suggest experiments and new ways to establish causality, assess attribution, and answer questions using data.

  • Build and prototype analysis pipelines iteratively to provide insights at scale, and develop comprehensive knowledge of Google data structures and metrics, advocating for changes where needed for product development.

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Google is proud to be an equal opportunity and affirmative action employer. We are committed to building a workforce that is representative of the users we serve, creating a culture of belonging, and providing an equal employment opportunity regardless of race, creed, color, religion, gender, sexual orientation, gender identity/expression, national origin, disability, age, genetic information, veteran status, marital status, pregnancy or related condition (including breastfeeding), expecting or parents-to-be, criminal histories consistent with legal requirements, or any other basis protected by law. See alsoGoogle's EEO Policy (https://www.google.com/about/careers/applications/eeo/) ,Know your rights: workplace discrimination is illegal (https://careers.google.com/jobs/dist/legal/EEOC\_KnowYourRights\_10\_20.pdf) ,Belonging at Google (https://about.google/belonging/) , andHow we hire (https://careers.google.com/how-we-hire/) .

If you have a need that requires accommodation, please let us know by completing ourAccommodations for Applicants form (https://goo.gl/forms/aBt6Pu71i1kzpLHe2) .

Google is a global company and, in order to facilitate efficient collaboration and communication globally, English proficiency is a requirement for all roles unless stated otherwise in the job posting.

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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 https://careers.google.com/eeo/ and https://careers.google.com/jobs/dist/legal/OFCCP_EEO_Post.pdf If you have a need that requires accommodation, please let us know by completing our Accommodations for Applicants form: https://goo.gl/forms/aBt6Pu71i1kzpLHe2.

How this job compares

Set against the 5,025 open Data Scientist jobs on Olive Jobs, counted November 5, 2026.

Pay
  • This posting$147–210K/yr
  • California median$156–236K/yr692 salary ranges
  • US median$135–212K/yr3,851 salary ranges

This range's midpoint, $179K, is 11% below the California median midpoint ($200K) — in the middle half of Data Scientist salary ranges in California.

Openings
Olive Jobs lists 833 open Data Scientist jobs in California and 5,025 across the US. 6% of them nationwide are listed as remote or flexible.
Hiring the most in California
Experience
This posting asks for at least 3 years of experience; Data Scientist postings that state a minimum ask for 5 years at the median (4,324 postings).
Education
2,441 of the 5,025 open Data Scientist jobs (49%) ask for a bachelor's degree or higher.

Counted across the open, public US postings on Olive Jobs on November 5, 2026. Pay medians are the middle values of the low ends and of the high ends of postings that list both ends of a range in the same cadence (a yearly salary or an hourly rate); a range's midpoint is halfway between its ends. Pay and experience figures resting on fewer than 20 postings are left out.

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