People Analyst, Reporting and Insights

At Google, data drives all of our decision-making, and our HR organization is no exception. The People Analytics team acts as an internal innovation lab, using analytical approaches to make sure Google continues to be a great place to work. The team provides critical support to the business around issues of organizational health and is responsible for not just taking the pulse of our Googlers, but harnessing Googler feedback to drive change for the better. As an analyst you’ll be detail-oriented and conscientious, analytical and curious. You’re a strong problem-solver, who uses both quantitative and qualitative methods to get things done. And on top of it all, you’re someone who wonders “What if?” and then seeks out the solution.

As a People Analyst, you will play an important role in helping our global HR team address the POps (People Operations) related data and analytical needs of their teams and clients across the globe. You will serve as the single interface to People Partners to provide analytical answers to their questions about people and organizations. Your knowledge of people data and business context will enable you to provide action-oriented analyses to ensure our HR organization, and their clients, are well-informed and able to make thoughtful, data-driven decisions.

Great just isn’t good enough for our People Operations team (you probably know us better as “Human Resources”). Made up of equal parts HR professionals, former consultants and analysts, we’re the champions of Google’s colorful culture. In People Ops, we “find them, grow them, and keep them” – we bring the world’s most innovative people to Google and provide the programs that help them thrive. Whether recruiting the next great Googler, refining our core programs, developing talent or simply looking for ways to inject some more fun into the lives of our Googlers, we bring a data-driven approach that is reinventing the human resources field.

Responsibilities

Build strong relationships and collaborate with teammates, business leaders, HR clients, and HR application engineers to solve organizational problems and empower organizations with high quality data.

Architect, develop and automate data and analytics solutions, iteratively build and prototype dashboards to provide insights at scale.

Manipulate and analyze large data sets to distill insights from data and connect disparate ideas into cohesive, well-grounded recommendations using creative, structured and analytical thinking. Create effective, scalable, and easy to understand reporting solutions (e.g. dashboards).

Use analytical reasoning to identify problems and develop hypotheses, often recommending a data product that addresses client’s/stakeholder’s needs.

Prioritize work to manage multiple workstreams, high pressure situations, and new information.

Qualifications

Minimum qualifications:
BA/BS degree in Economics, Statistics, Finance, Social Science, Psychology, or any related fields (i.e. Mathematics, Engineering), or equivalent practical experience.

Experience using SQL, Python or other data or scripting language. Experience building and maintaining a solution to collect, store, and organize data to address client needs.

Preferred qualifications:
Experience collaborating on projects involving multiple teams, managing an ongoing relationship with client, and presenting to audiences.

Experience using quantitative and qualitative analytical strategies and working with multiple data sources to generate insights from analyses, answering questions or creating solutions, and manipulating data to measure the effectiveness of programs, interventions, and efforts for an organization.

Experience using data visualization (e.g., tables, charts, graphs); Experience with conducting research using basic statistics (e.g., correlations, t-tests, regressions).

Experience forming testable statements generated from inductive reasoning that can be verified via statistical and analytical means.

Ability to self-start and self-direct work in an unstructured environment, and comfortable dealing with ambiguity.

Excellent communications skills and solutions, and client service-oriented with an emphasis on creativity and diligence.