Data Scientist, Product Analytics
Job Summary
Job Description
As a Data Scientist at Meta, you'll leverage vast datasets to influence product development across Facebook, Instagram, Messenger, WhatsApp, and Oculus. You'll collaborate with cross-functional teams (Product, Engineering, Research, etc.) to solve complex problems, define product strategies, and drive impactful decisions. Responsibilities include using quantitative analysis, experimentation, and data mining to improve products serving billions. You will define metrics, design experiments, and communicate actionable insights. This role demands strong analytical skills, data visualization expertise, and excellent communication to influence stakeholders with data-driven narratives.
Must have:
- Bachelor's degree in relevant field
- 4+ years analytics experience
- SQL, Python, R proficiency
- Experience with quantitative analysis
- Data-driven project execution
Good to have:
- Master's or Ph.D. in quantitative field
Perks:
- Bonus
- Equity
- Benefits
6 skills required
Job Details
As a Data Scientist at Meta, you will shape the future of people-facing and business-facing products we build across our entire family of applications (Facebook, Instagram, Messenger, WhatsApp, Oculus). By applying your technical skills, analytical mindset, and product intuition to one of the richest data sets in the world, you will help define the experiences we build for billions of people and hundreds of millions of businesses around the world. You will collaborate on a wide array of product and business problems with a wide-range of cross-functional partners across Product, Engineering, Research, Data Engineering, Marketing, Sales, Finance and others. You will use data and analysis to identify and solve product development's biggest challenges. You will influence product strategy and investment decisions with data, be focused on impact, and collaborate with other teams. By joining Meta, you will become part of a world-class analytics community dedicated to skill development and career growth in analytics and beyond.
Product leadership: You will use data to shape product development, quantify new opportunities, identify upcoming challenges, and ensure the products we build bring value to people, businesses, and Meta. You will help your partner teams prioritize what to build, set goals, and understand their product's ecosystem.
Analytics: You will guide teams using data and insights. You will focus on developing hypotheses and employ a varied toolkit of rigorous analytical approaches, different methodologies, frameworks, and technical approaches to test them.
Communication and influence: You won't simply present data, but tell data-driven stories. You will convince and influence your partners using clear insights and recommendations. You will build credibility through structure and clarity, and be a trusted strategic partner.
Data Scientist, Product Analytics Responsibilities
- Work with large and complex data sets to solve a wide array of challenging problems using different analytical and statistical approaches
- Apply technical expertise with quantitative analysis, experimentation, data mining, and the presentation of data to develop strategies for our products that serve billions of people and hundreds of millions of businesses
- Identify and measure success of product efforts through goal setting, forecasting, and monitoring of key product metrics to understand trends
- Define, understand, and test opportunities and levers to improve the product, and drive roadmaps through your insights and recommendations
- Partner with Product, Engineering, and cross-functional teams to inform, influence, support, and execute product strategy and investment decisions
Minimum Qualifications
- Bachelor's degree in Mathematics, Statistics, a relevant technical field, or equivalent
- 4+ years of work experience in analytics, data querying languages such as SQL, scripting languages such as Python, and/or statistical mathematical software such as R (minimum of 2 years with a Ph.D.)
- 4+ years of experience solving analytical problems using quantitative approaches, understanding ecosystems, user behaviors & long-term product trends, and leading data-driven projects from definition to execution [including defining metrics, experiment, design, communicating actionable insights]
Preferred Qualifications
- Master's or Ph.D. Degree in a quantitative field
For those who live in or expect to work from California if hired for this position, please click for additional information.
About Meta
Meta builds technologies that help people connect, find communities, and grow businesses. When Facebook launched in 2004, it changed the way people connect. Apps like Messenger, Instagram and WhatsApp further empowered billions around the world. Now, Meta is moving beyond 2D screens toward immersive experiences like augmented and virtual reality to help build the next evolution in social technology. People who choose to build their careers by building with us at Meta help shape a future that will take us beyond what digital connection makes possible today—beyond the constraints of screens, the limits of distance, and even the rules of physics.
$145,000/year to $204,000/year + bonus + equity + benefits
Individual compensation is determined by skills, qualifications, experience, and location. Compensation details listed in this posting reflect the base hourly rate, monthly rate, or annual salary only, and do not include bonus, equity or sales incentives, if applicable. In addition to base compensation, Meta offers benefits. Learn more about at Meta.
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