The Senior Product Data Scientist for Google Messages, Spam and Abuse will focus on delivering critical insights and predictive models to protect users from spam and abuse. This role is part of the Android, Business, and Communications team, which aims to enhance communication experiences for nearly 2 billion active users. The Data Scientist will analyze complex communication data and guide product and engineering teams on anti-spam strategies. The position involves bridging technical excellence with product execution to improve user trust and safety in messaging.

• Bachelor's degree in Statistics, Mathematics, Data Science, Engineering, Physics, Economics, or a related quantitative field.
• 8 years of work experience using analytics to solve product or business problems, performing statistical analysis, and coding (e.g., Python, R, SQL) or 5 years with a Master's degree.
• Experience with A/B testing methodologies.

• Define and track core metrics for spam prevalence, false positives, enforcement efficacy, and user impact.
• Develop automated dashboards, anomaly detection alerts, and reporting pipelines to monitor ecosystem health in real time.
• Design and execute A/B tests and counterfactual analyses to evaluate the efficacy and side effects of anti-spam rules.
• Partner closely with Product, Engineering, Policy, and UX teams to identify spam trends and prioritize enforcement roadmaps.
• Conduct exploratory data analyses on evolving adversarial behaviors in conversational messaging and present technical insights.
• Evaluate and iterate on statistical models, heuristics, and classification algorithms to detect spam and unwanted traffic.

• Employees at Google are often offered benefits like comprehensive health insurance, 401(k) matching, and flexible work arrangements, among other benefits.