Staff Product Data Scientist, Gmail, Chat, Calendar

Staff Product Data Scientist role focused on metrics, analytics infrastructure, and self-serve reporting for Communications & Time Management (CTM) across Gmail, Chat, and Calendar.

Responsibilities

• Lead research and development of metric frameworks to quantify user engagement and productivity.
• Develop new methodologies to assess the impact of GenAI and agentic tooling embedded in Workspace products, including effectiveness, adoption, and efficiency gains.
• Serve as a strategic connector between product engineering and central data infrastructure teams.
• Mobilize resources and influence partner roadmaps while driving complex, multi-team telemetry and infrastructure efforts from inception through execution.
• Design and build scalable data models and analytics architecture that connect data across multiple product domains.
• Ensure analytics cohesion across Workspace rather than keeping product-specific data in isolated silos.
• Scope and execute initiatives to enable self-serve analytics.
• Design unified semantic layers, governed metric stores, and high-impact executive dashboards.
• Lead next-generation AI-powered self-serve analytics tooling.

Requirements

• Bachelor's degree in Statistics, Mathematics, Data Science, Engineering, Physics, Economics, or a related quantitative field.
• 10+ years using analytics to solve product or business problems, including statistical analysis and coding (e.g., Python, R, SQL).
• Alternative qualification: 8+ years work experience plus a Master's degree.

Tech Stack

• Python
• R
• SQL

Minimum Qualifications

• Bachelor's degree in Statistics, Mathematics, Data Science, Engineering, Physics, Economics, or a related quantitative field.
• 10+ years work experience using analytics to solve product or business problems, including statistical analysis and coding (e.g., Python, R, SQL).
• Alternative qualification: 8+ years work experience and a Master's degree.

Preferred Qualifications

• Master's degree in Statistics, Mathematics, Data Science, Engineering, Physics, Economics, or a related quantitative field.
• 12+ years work experience using analytics to solve product or business problems, including statistical analysis and coding (e.g., Python, R, SQL).

Benefits

• Health, dental, vision, life, disability insurance
• Retirement benefits: 401(k) with company match
• Paid Time Off: 20 days of vacation per year (accrues at 6.15 hours per pay period for the first five years)
• Sick Time: 40 hours/year (increases to 69 hours/year for Seattle), including 5 discretionary sick days per instance
• Maternity Leave: 28-30 weeks (Short-Term Disability + Baby Bonding)
• Baby Bonding Leave: 18 weeks
• Holidays: 13 paid days per year

Job Details

• Team: Communications & Time Management (CTM) Data Science
• Products: Gmail, Chat, Calendar
• Focus: Quantitative support and analytics that inform product development
• Scale: Work that supports Google’s worldwide user base of more than billion users (per posting)
• Location: Boulder, CO (onsite)
• Salary: USD 192,000 - 278,000 per year
• Experience level: Minimum 8 years (per posting)
• Work location preference (application note): Sunnyvale, CA; Boulder, CO; New York, NY; Seattle, WA