Lead Product Analyst, Search London, England
Job description
In-office locations: London, UK.
Remote location(s): United Kingdom.
Minimum qualifications:
- Master's degree in a quantitative field (e.g., Statistics, Operations Research, Bioinformatics, Economics, Computational Biology, Computer Science, Mathematics, Physics) or equivalent practical experience.
- Experience with statistical data analysis, querying, scripting (e.g., R or Python, SQL), developing/managing metrics or evaluating programs/products.
- Experience with mentoring/coaching team members, or people management in a technical environment.
Preferred qualifications:
- PhD in a quantitative field (e.g., Statistics, Operations Research, Bioinformatics, Economics, Computational Biology, Computer Science, Mathematics, Physics) or equivalent practical experience.
- Experience with strategic analysis, data analysis, metric reporting and executive presentations.
- Experience with experimental design, training in areas such as data analysis, survey design, statistical modeling.
- Ability to extract insights from data, solve business problems in complex, fast-moving, and ambiguous business environments.
- Ability to apply statistical training.
- Excellent communication skills and business acumen.
About the job
Help serve Google's worldwide user base of more than a billion people. Product Analysts 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.
In this role, you will liaise with the cross-functional Partners and Engineering team. You will gain insights and continue to evolve our strategy in this area.
In Google Search, we're reimagining what it means to search for information – any way and anywhere. To do that, we need to solve complex engineering challenges and expand our infrastructure, while maintaining a universally accessible and useful experience that people around the world rely on. In joining the Search team, you'll have an opportunity to make an impact on billions of people globally.
Responsibilities
- Interact cross-functionally with a wide variety of teams, and work with Product Manager and Engineering Leads to identify strategic insights, growth and quality opportunities for the product.
- Make business recommendations with effective presentations of findings at multiple levels of stakeholders through visual displays of quantitative information.
- Work with data sets and solve issues, bring statistical methods to the problems of measuring quality, improving consumer products, and understanding the behavior of end-users.
- Build a machine learning model to identify drivers of engagement level. Understand complex machine learning models.
- Manage a team of analysts to run product analysis work, provide guidance of our metrics, methods, and measurement capabilities.
