The Shorts team at YouTube is looking to improve the quality of the recommendation system and make Shorts more fun and appealing for all users by solving product or business problems using analytics.
Requirements
- 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.
- Familiarity with machine learning and experiment design principles.
- Coding skills (e.g., Python, R, SQL)
- Querying databases or statistical analysis
- Specialized knowledge of custom data infrastructure or existing data models
- Ability to design and evaluate models to mathematically express and solve defined problems
Responsibilities
- Collaborate with stakeholders in cross-projects and team settings to identify and clarify business or product questions to answer.
- 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.
- Gather information, business goals, priorities, and organizational context around the questions to answer, as well as the existing and upcoming data infrastructure.
- Own the process of gathering, extracting, and compiling data across sources via relevant tools (e.g., SQL, R, Python).
- Format, re-structure, or validate data to ensure quality, and review the dataset to ensure it is ready for analysis.
- Provide feedback to translate and refine business questions into tractable analysis, evaluation metrics, or mathematical models.
Other
- 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
- Excellent problem-solving and project management skills, with the ability to communicate insights to technical management teams.
- Ability to work at the intersection of cutting-edge technology and boundless creativity
- Ability to move at the speed of culture with a shared goal to show people the world
