Facebook

Data Scientist, Analytics - Family Ecosystems

Posted on: 6 Feb 2021

Menlo Park, CA

Job Description

The Facebook family of apps each have similar but unique missions: Facebook gives people the power to build community and bring the world closer together. Whatsapp lets people communicate anywhere in the world without barriers. Instagram brings people closer to the people and things they love. These missions come together in the way people use our family of apps every day. The Family Ecosystems Data Science team provides this data-driven perspective on company strategy and priorities. Youll be part of a small, caring and tight-knit team of Data Scientists in a fast-paced, high impact area with high visibility to leaders of the apps, growth and analytics organizations. Youll collaborate with product and Data Science teams across the organization to provide clear, actionable analysis on some of the biggest and most crucial topics facing our community and company.

Data Scientist, Analytics - Family Ecosystems Responsibilities

* Surfacing and understanding cross-app effects and external/emergent trends in depth

* Providing insights on topics that are important but fall between team responsibilities

* Setting up and communicating best practices and data foundations for family analysis

* Driving product strategy: This is an opportunity to work with EVERY part of Facebook Inc, from the newest, shiniest products like Reels and Rooms, to the most important topics like supporting small businesses, COVID and election integrity. You can bring the data to drive our next big product, innovation or service to our community

* Enhancing Family Experimentation: Experimentation in this area is fundamentally challenging and critical to our long term success at growing the family of apps. Specifically, youll help us figure out how to handle cross-app effects & network effects and provide clarity to drive decisions on complex systems

* Bringing your passion and vision: We want you to come and do the best work of your career. That means driving progress on the topics you believe in, with the data to prove your hypotheses, so this space intentionally left blank

Minimum Qualifications

* MS degree in a quantitative discipline (e.g., statistics, operations research, econometrics, computer science, applied mathematics, physics, electrical engineering, industrial engineering) or equivalent experience

* 8+ years experience doing quantitative product analysis

* Experience with statistics, experimentation and modelling to get meaningful signals from noisy data (e.g., Python, Scikit-Learn, TensorFlow, SAS, R, MATLAB)

* Experience extracting and manipulating large datasets with SQL, Presto, Spark, etc.

* Experience influencing product strategy through data-centric presentations to product, business, and other stakeholders

* Experience influencing cross functional partners and work across teams

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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.

Facebook is committed to providing reasonable accommodations for qualified individuals with disabilities and disabled veterans in our job application procedures. If you need assistance or an accommodation due to a disability, you may contact us at accommodations-ext@fb.com.

Facebook

Menlo Park, CA

Facebook, Inc. provides various products to connect and share through mobile devices, personal computers, and other surfaces worldwide. The company’s products include Facebook that enables people to connect, share, discover, and communicate with each other on mobile devices and personal computers; Instagram, a community for sharing photos, videos, and messages; Messenger, a messaging application for people to connect with friends, family, groups, and businesses across platforms and devices; and WhatsApp, a messaging application for use by people and businesses to communicate in a private way. It also provides Oculus, a hardware, software, and developer ecosystem, which allows people to come together and connect with each other through its Oculus virtual reality products. As of December 31, 2018, it had approximately 1.52 billion daily active users. The company was founded in 2004 and is headquartered in Menlo Park, California.

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