Product Strategy Director

Meta•Menlo Park, CA

About The Position

Meta Platforms, Inc. (Meta), formerly known as Facebook Inc., builds technologies that help people connect, find communities, and grow businesses. When Facebook launched in 2004, it changed the way people connect. Apps and services 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. This role involves providing sophisticated research and analysis on market trends and customer behavior to help drive product road maps, going deep into data to uncover key insights about Meta’s market positioning, creating business cases for product initiatives with a focus on market and opportunity sizing, instigating studies into people’s lives and perception of products, interfacing with external clients and industry figures, and working with cross-functional partners to surface opportunities and threats, outline data-driven strategic decisions, and frame actionable product recommendations. The director will also lead the team and work closely with direct reports to further Meta’s strategy.

Requirements

Master’s degree (or foreign degree equivalent) in Business, Marketing, Analytics, Engineering or a related field and 8 years of work experience in the job offered or in a related field
Experience must include 8 years in the following: Management consulting, strategy, finance, business operations, corporate strategy, investment banking, or partnerships
Leading strategy projects at a consulting firm, investment bank, or in a corporate strategy team
Consumer, enterprise AI space, or in the consumer internet space, including social, communications, media, and entertainment verticals
Running analytics and data queries to inform analysis of ecosystem trends using SQL
Product landscape, including trends, players, technologies, and underlying dynamics
Solving problems using quantitative, analytical, and conceptual skills with business acumen
Structuring and solving product problems, and influencing product decisions to move insights into action
Working with product strategy in technology

Responsibilities

Provide sophisticated research and analysis on market trends and customer behavior to help drive product road maps.
Go deep into data (across Meta and the market) to uncover key insights about Meta’s positioning in a given market, then effectively communicate these to Execs, Product Leaders and other cross functional partners.
Help create business cases for product initiatives, with a focus on market and opportunity sizing.
Instigate studies into people’s lives and perception of products and derive valuable insights.
Interface with external clients, partners and industry figures to get holistic understanding of needs and opportunities.
Work with cross-functional partners (Product, Data Science, Engineering, User Research, Marketing, Finance, Legal, etc.) to surface opportunities and threats, outline data-driven strategic decisions, and frame actionable product recommendations.
Lead the team and work closely with direct reports to further Meta’s strategy.