Business Analyst, Strategy Operations, Google Play

Key Skills

Business Analytics, C++, Data Analytics, Data science techniques, Java Programming, Leadership Skill, Planning and organization, Python Programming, R Programming, SAS, SPSS Statistics, Stata

Job Description

Minimum qualifications:

• Bachelor's degree or equivalent practical experience.
• 4 years of experience working in data analytics, consulting, data science, engineering, or a technical operations role.
• 4 years of experience in statistical problem solving and analyzing data sets using SQL or comparable coding language (e.g. Python, R, Java, C++).

Preferred qualifications:

• 3 years of experience in scripting, statistical analysis (e.g., R, Stata, SPSS, SAS), developing and managing metrics, and evaluating programs/products.
• 3 years of experience working in a complex, matrixed organization.
• 3 year of experience preparing and delivering technical presentations to executive leadership

About the job

Product and Business Strategy Leaders bring together teams across Google’s functions to help products execute optimally. Our team pushes Google to scale at key points that refine our products and infrastructure by executing efficiently, bringing solid business sense and sound judgment, and working effectively across organizational lines.

Our roles often include components of strategy (e.g. analyzing and understanding new trends in the industry, building business plans), operations (e.g. running the cadence of organizations, connecting the operating lines between our functions), and communications. Our team partners with senior leadership to run important functions that cross-cut our existing organizations and deliver high impact projects. We help Engineers, PMs, UX, and all of our other functions to build amazing products that delight our users, and then get those products into their hands.

In this role, you will join a team that works on a variety of data science projects to drive product decisions for Google Play. As a Business Analyst, you will be a thought partner from project ideation to experimentation, and our analysis consistently sets the strategy for the wider area. You will partner with senior leadership to run important functions that cross-cut our existing organizations and deliver high impact projects. You will help Engineers, PMs, UX, and other cross-functional stakeholders to build amazing products that delight our users.

Google Play offers music, movies, books, apps and games for devices, powered by the cloud. It syncs across devices and on the web. As part of the Android and Mobile team, Googlers working on Google Play do everything from engineering our backend systems, to shaping product strategy, to forming great content partnerships. They make it possible for people to do things like buy an ebook or song on their Android phone, then have it instantly available on their laptop. The Google Play team enhances the Android ecosystem by giving developers and partners a premium store where they can reach millions of users.

Responsibilities

• Identify and structure business problems, communicate challenges and opportunities.
• Produce insights and metrics for various technical and business stakeholders.
• Deliver presentations of findings and recommendations, creating visual displays of quantitative information.
• Follow engineering best practices to create scalable data pipelines and models.
• Engage and influence senior stakeholders and cross-functional partners, obtain buy in for potential solutions, adapt messaging and suggested recommendations.