
Research Data Scientist, YouTube Music and Premium
San Bruno, CAJob$147–210K/yrSeen 2w agoSeen in employer's feed 6 days ago
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Job overview
The Research Data Scientist will support YouTube Music and Premium by uncovering data-driven insights, creating models and metrics, and modeling growth in the premium user base. The role focuses on subscriber growth and profitability, including subscription economics, pricing, churn, and conversion. The scientist will work with cross-functional partners to inform product roadmaps and strategy and help build tools to understand and manage the business.
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Research Data Scientist, YouTube Music and Premium
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Experience driving progress, solving problems, and mentoring more junior team members; deeper expertise and applied knowledge within relevant area.
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XIn most instances, this position requires in-person interviews as part of the hiring process.Note: By applying to this position you will have an opportunity to share your preferred working location from the following: San Bruno, CA, USA; Mountain View, CA, USA .
Minimum qualifications:
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Master's degree in Statistics, Data Science, Mathematics, Physics, Economics, Operations Research, Engineering, or a related quantitative field.
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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:
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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.
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Ability to read and apply quantitative methodologies from books, papers, etc.
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Ability to take open-ended problems, provide better definition and eventually solutions.
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Ability to communicate well (and the so what) with data.
About the job
YouTube Data Science consists of a large analyst team that influences and informs YouTube’s product and engineering leadership teams. 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.
Within YouTube Data Science, the Music and Premium Data Science team is the home for all music products and podcasts at Google, along with efforts to grow the paid users (Premium, Nitrate, Commerce, and Growth). It is a critical area both for expanding Google's business through paid subscriptions growth, as well as showcasing innovation. This is the landing spot for GenAI audio and transforming the product using AI tools.
As a Data Scientist within the YouTube Premium team, you will work alongside premium and music Data Scientists, ProdOps, Finance, PM, Marketing, BD/partnerships, Engineering and UXR partners to uncover actionable data-driven insights that inform the product roadmaps and strategy, create models and define metrics for improved user experiences, and model growth dynamics in premium user base to support the M&P business.
You will need to have a background or a flair for topics related to economics, especially economics of paid subscription services.
The Music and Premium experience for YouTube users involves no ads, backgrounding, downloads (for offline experiences), and many others. This role involves understanding levers of YouTube premium subscriber growth, building robust and scalable tools to understand, manage the trajectory of the business, while balancing subscriber growth and profitability.
At YouTube, we believe that everyone deserves to have a voice, and that the world is a better place when we listen, share, and build community through our stories. We work together to give everyone the power to share their story, explore what they love, and connect with one another in the process. Working at the intersection of cutting-edge technology and boundless creativity, we move at the speed of culture with a shared goal to show people the world. We explore new ideas, solve real problems, and have fun — and we do it all together.
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
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Collaborate with stakeholders in cross-projects and team settings to identify and clarify business or product questions to answer. Provide feedback to translate and refine business questions into tractable analysis, evaluation metrics, or mathematical models.
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Use custom data infrastructure or existing data models as appropriate, using specialized knowledge. Design and evaluate models to mathematically express and solve defined problems with limited precedent.
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Drive operational diagnoses in the premium business, such as reasons for changes in paid preserving, trial to paid conversion and the implications for various areas in the subs business (lifetime calue, acquisition and experiments etc.).
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Adjust prices which require understanding of the impact on existing subs (churn). Involve in improving methods to estimate price elasticity and play a key role in the mission control team which coordinates price increases.
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How this job compares
Set against the 4,812 open Data Scientist jobs on Olive Jobs, counted November 4, 2026.
- Pay
- This posting$147–210K/yr
- California median$156–236K/yr671 salary ranges
- US median$136–215K/yr3,691 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 807 open Data Scientist jobs in California and 4,812 across the US. 7% of them nationwide are listed as remote or flexible.
- 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 (4,124 postings).
- Education
- This posting asks for a master's degree; 615 of the 4,812 open Data Scientist jobs (13%) ask for a master's degree or higher.
Counted across the open, public US postings on Olive Jobs on November 4, 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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