Business Analyst, Strategy And Operations

Note: By applying to this position you will have an opportunity to share your preferred working location from the following: Mountain View, CA, USA; Atlanta, GA, USA; New York, NY, USA.Minimum qualifications:

• Experience with SQL.
• Experience with stakeholder management (i.e., leading, presenting, reporting).
• Experience with analytics and project management.

Preferred qualifications:

• Excellent written and verbal communication, process/project management, prioritization, and multi-tasking skills.
• Experience with Python and R.
• Experience with Data Science, Machine Learning, and A/B Testing.

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.
As a Business Analyst, you will provide performance measurement (ranging from simple tracking, A/B tests to causal inference) on Play Apps activities. You will help measure and report progress against Objectives and Key Results (OKRs). Additionally, you will be frequently called on for in-depth search into App performance, user behavior in top markets, by user segments. Insights are surfaced to Play Leads and often lead to impactful actions. You will frequently partner with Product, Engineering, and Marketing teams to recommend features/experiments by using a combination of content, user insights, and advanced analytics (such as Machine Learning based classification models, segmentation, etc.).
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.
The US base salary range for this full-time position is $114,000-$167,000 + bonus + equity + benefits. Our salary ranges are determined by role, level, and location. The range displayed on each job posting reflects the minimum and maximum target for new hire salaries for the position across all US locations. Within the range, individual pay is determined by work location and additional factors, including job-related skills, experience, and relevant education or training. Your recruiter can share more about the specific salary range for your preferred location during the hiring process.
Please note that the compensation details listed in US role postings reflect the base salary only, and do not include bonus, equity, or benefits. Learn more about benefits at Google .
Responsibilities

• Utilize causal inference, predictive models/machine learning to execute segmentations, improve measurement, and drive better user targeting.
• Collaborate with stakeholders to define problem-solving scope, success criteria, timeline for various projects, and manage overall project execution. Work with business, product, and engineering counterparts to translate insights into experiments, conduct measurements and business cases for scaling actions.
• Define, develop, automate relevant metrics and dashboards to support decision-making by relevant stakeholders. Set standards and benchmarks to evaluate campaigns, marketing, and other initiatives globally, by vertical and by region.
• Ensure a high degree of excellence and quality in all projects and ensure that processes are adopted and best practices are shared.
• Blend problem-solving excellence with business knowledge to execute in-depth search and deliver actionable recommendations for executive forums.

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