About the position
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.
Responsibilities
- 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.
- Help partner teams prioritize what to build, set goals, and understand their product's ecosystem.
- Guide teams using data and insights, focusing on developing hypotheses and employing a varied toolkit of rigorous analytical approaches.
- Influence and convince partners using clear insights and recommendations, building credibility through structure, clarity, and comprehensiveness.
Requirements
- Currently has or in the process of obtaining Ph.D. in Mathematics, Statistics, a relevant technical field, or equivalent practical experience. Degree must be completed prior to joining Meta.
- Experience with data querying languages (e.g., SQL), scripting languages (e.g., Python) or statistical packages (e.g., R).
- Must obtain work authorization in country of employment at the time of hire and maintain ongoing work authorization during employment.
- Currently has, or is in the process of obtaining a Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Computer Engineering, relevant technical field, or equivalent practical experience. Degree must be completed prior to joining Meta.
- Experience working with distributed computing tools (MapReduce, Hadoop, Hive, etc.).
- Experience working with large data sets.
- Experience manipulating and analyzing high-volume, high-dimensionality data from varying sources.
