
Business Data Scientist, Trust and Safety, YouTube
Mountain View, CAJob$138–197K/yrSeen 2w agoSeen in employer's feed 3 days ago
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Job overview
The Business Data Scientist will partner with teams to frame ambiguous safety issues as tractable problems and support YouTube’s Trust and Safety work. The role focuses on developing performance metrics, analysis frameworks, and AI-based systems, and using quantitative analysis to generate actionable insights. It also involves improving processes and tools to help protect the platform and its users.
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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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Minimum qualifications:
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Master's degree in a quantitative discipline such as Statistics, Engineering, Sciences, or equivalent practical experience.
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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:
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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.
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Experience architecting scalable enterprise AI solutions and Generative AI pipelines.
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Experience in project management and process optimization with AI or data analytics.
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Familiar with abuse prevention, policy and regulatory systems.
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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.
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Excellent written and verbal communication skills.
About the job
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 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.
Fast-paced, dynamic, and proactive, YouTube’s Trust and Safety team is dedicated to making YouTube a safe place for users, viewers, and content creators around the world to create, and express themselves. Whether understanding and solving their online content concerns, navigating within global legal frameworks, or writing and enforcing worldwide policy, the Trust and Safety team is on the frontlines of enhancing the YouTube experience, building internet safety, and protecting free speech in our ever-evolving digital world.
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 aboutbenefits at Google (https://www.google.com/about/careers/applications/benefits/) .
Responsibilities
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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.
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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.
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Learn complex and technical concepts and systems and deliver meaningful results using them. Communicate highly technical results and methods clearly.
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Partner with Data Science, Product, Research, and Strategy teams to prioritize and execute sophisticated quantitative analyses and advanced modeling that deliver actionable insights.
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Analyze processes to identify opportunities for improvement, define requirements, and collaborate cross-functionally and globally to improve processes and tools as AI-Native.
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How this job compares
Set against the 4,931 open Data Scientist jobs on Olive Jobs, counted October 27, 2026.
- Pay
- This posting$138–197K/yr
- California median$155–240K/yr718 salary ranges
- US median$133–215K/yr3,922 salary ranges
This range's midpoint, $168K, is 16% below the California median midpoint ($200K) — in the middle half of Data Scientist salary ranges in California.
- Openings
- Olive Jobs lists 845 open Data Scientist jobs in California and 4,931 across the US. 5% 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 (4,239 postings).
- Education
- 2,823 of the 4,931 open Data Scientist jobs (57%) ask for a bachelor's degree or higher.
Counted across the open, public US postings on Olive Jobs on October 27, 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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