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Staff Product Data Scientist, Merchant Shopping

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Compensation
$192–278K/yr
Location
Mountain View, CA
Work Authorization
Not specified

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Job overview

Google seeks a Staff Product Data Scientist to lead the technical evolution of data systems for merchant and communication products, including Business Agents, Google Business Profiles, and Business Messaging. The role combines data science and software engineering to build analytical systems and turn interaction data into product insights. Its work is intended to influence merchant ROI, consumer messaging funnels, and the value delivered by AI agents.

Skills & qualifications

RequiredNice to have

Skills

AnalyticsStatistical AnalysisPythonRSQLMachine LearningAI AlgorithmsCodingSystem DesignSoftware Development

Qualifications

Bachelor's in Quantitative Field10 Years Work Experience or Master's+8 YearsMaster's in Quantitative Field12 Years Work Experience

Full job description

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Minimum qualifications:

  • Bachelor's degree in Statistics, Mathematics, Data Science, Engineering, Physics, Economics, or a related quantitative field.

  • 10 years of work experience using analytics to solve product or business problems, performing statistical analysis, and coding (e.g., Python, R, SQL) or 8 years work experience with a Master's degree.

  • Experience with machine learning (ML), machine learning algorithms, artificial intelligence (AI) algorithms, coding, system design, or software development.

Preferred qualifications:

  • Master's degree in Statistics, Mathematics, Data Science, Engineering, Physics, Economics, or a related quantitative field.

  • 12 years of work experience using analytics to solve product or business problems, performing statistical analysis, and coding (e.g., Python, R, SQL).

About the job

Help serve Google's worldwide user base of more than a billion people. Data Scientists provide quantitative support, market understanding and a strategic perspective to our partners throughout the organization. As a data-loving member of the team, you serve as an analytics expert for your partners, using numbers to help them make better decisions. You will weave stories with meaningful insight from data. You'll make critical recommendations for your fellow Googlers in Engineering and Product Management. You relish tallying up the numbers one minute and communicating your findings to a team leader the next.

We are looking for a Staff Data Scientist to lead the technical evolution of our data systems across Google’s merchant and communication products. This role focuses on Business Agents, Google Business Profiles, and Business Messaging -- surfaces that connect consumers with millions of businesses daily.

In this role, you will be expected to operate fluidly between data science and software engineering. You will not just run analyses; you will build the systems that perform them. We are moving away from manual SQL pulls and static dashboards. Your mandate is to build self-healing data pipelines, establish an AI-readable semantic layer, and develop autonomous agents capable of running full exploratory analyses.

Ultimately, your technical work must drive measurable business impact. You will bridge the gap between complex infrastructure and product execution -- turning interaction data into clear, actionable insights that dictate what we build next. Your work will directly influence merchant Return on Investment (ROI), optimize consumer messaging funnels, and ensure our AI agents deliver tangible value to the businesses that rely on Google.

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

US: $192000 - $278000 (USD) + 20% bonus target + equity + benefits

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

Responsibilities

  • Develop AI agents capable of executing end-to-end data analysis, from exploring interaction data in Business Profiles and writing queries, to diagnosing metric shifts and generating product recommendations.

  • Write and deploy production code to build data pipelines for Business Messaging and Business Agents.

  • Structure our data warehouses so they are universally readable by internal AI systems and product surfaces, ensuring accurate, reliable, and reproducible query retrieval.

  • Architect the statistical frameworks and infrastructure for A/B testing. Build automated systems that interpret experimental results, flag statistical noise, and output clear ship/no-ship recommendations.

  • Serve as a technical benchmark for the data organization. Write clean, maintainable code (Python, SQL), and mentor executive team members on system architecture and advanced statistical methods.

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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/) .

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How this job compares

Set against the 4,811 open Data Scientist jobs on Olive Jobs, counted November 5, 2026.

Pay
  • This posting$192–278K/yr
  • California median$156–236K/yr671 salary ranges
  • US median$136–215K/yr3,690 salary ranges

This range's midpoint, $235K, is 18% above the California median midpoint ($200K) — in the top quarter of Data Scientist salary ranges in California.

Openings
Olive Jobs lists 807 open Data Scientist jobs in California and 4,811 across the US. 7% of them nationwide are listed as remote or flexible.
Hiring the most in California
Experience
This posting asks for at least 8 years of experience — more than three in four Data Scientist postings that state a minimum ask for (median 5 years, across 4,123 postings).
Education
2,276 of the 4,811 open Data Scientist jobs (47%) 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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