Job Description

The Privacy Research team is on the front lines of ensuring we honor people's privacy in everything Facebook Inc. does - one of our core company priorities and the Privacy Organization's mission statement. Research is a critical function across all Privacy activities to understand external privacy stakeholders in order to better learn from them and influence, which will help us execute against that mission. The Privacy Research team collaboratively shapes the future of privacy across Facebook Inc. through deep topical expertise, rigorous foundational research, and rich partnerships with cross-functional partners to drive action based on our insights. We aim to be recognized as experts, internally and externally, and actively shape strategy, product, process, and tool development. Privacy Ecosystems is a critical pillar within the Privacy team with the mission to establish the conviction to build the right privacy solutions at scale, design and operationalize privacy product strategies to respond to regulation & industry changes, leveraging and improving Privacy Standards and capabilities along the way.

Quantitative Researcher, Privacy Data Usage Responsibilities

* Combine strategic visioning and analytical activity, moving between macro trends and micro trends in privacy practices, and develop substantiated point of views

* Work closely with cross-functional teams, as well as other researchers, to identify important research questions

* Act as a thought leader in research, while advocating for people who use our products

* Design and execute studies that address both user behavior and attitudes, using the right methodology for the right questions

* Work cross-functionally with design, product management, policy, data science, content strategy, engineering, legal and other qualitative and quantitative researchers

* Generate insights that shape how product teams think about medium- and long-term product strategy

* Distil data-informed recommendations through the lens of business impact, user experience and product strategy

* Perform qualitative and quantitative research to meet regulatory requirements such as third party ads control, EDBP, ePD cookies and user expectations

* Collect feedback from External Privacy Stakeholders including Academics, Civil Society Organizers, Advocates, Politicians, Regulators and Technical Practitioners

* Conduct co-design sessions internally and externally

* Strong strategic presence to empower teams across the company to build with privacy by design

* Communicate results and illustrate suggestions in compelling and creative ways to a broad and diverse audience, including executive and external stakeholders

* Identify opportunities to constantly improve the quality of thinking applied to privacy and data use insights

* Comfort with utilizing data to define and support hypotheses

Minimum Qualifications

* BA/BS in Psychology, Anthropology, Political Science, Civic Engagement/Integrity or Journalism or related fields with empirical research experience

* 5+ years' experience conducting quantitative research in a corporate environment

* Knowledge of research methods and experience in at least one subset of methods (e.g., survey design and quantitative data analysis)

* Experience with remote and in-person research

* Analytical, project management, and problem-solving experience

* Experience with autonomy and independent decision making to weigh tradeoffs and balance demands

Preferred Qualifications

* M.A./M.S./Ph.D, human behavior-related field, Psychology, Anthropology, Political Science, Civic Engagement/Integrity or Journalism or related fields with empirical research experience

* Experience with research regarding privacy and data use

* Experience conducting international or cross-cultural research

* Experience conducting research on internal company tools and processes and with internal users

* Experience in conducting qualitative and quantitative research in a corporate environment, including concept-testing, usability, interviews, competitive analysis, diary studies, contextual inquiry/observations, ethnography, and quantitative survey design and analysis and response effects, experimental design, statistical analysis

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About the Facebook company

Facebook's mission is to give people the power to build community and bring the world closer together. Through our family of apps and services, we're building a different kind of company that connects billions of people around the world, gives them ways to share what matters most to them, and helps bring people closer together. Whether we're creating new products or helping a small business expand its reach, people at Facebook are builders at heart. Our global teams are constantly iterating, solving problems, and working together to empower people around the world to build community and connect in meaningful ways. Together, we can help people build stronger communities we're just getting started.

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