Job Description

As the Facebook family of apps (Facebook, Messenger, Instagram, etc.) have grown over the years, with over 2.6 billion people using our services every day, it is becoming increasingly important to ensure that we are minimizing harmful experiences and keeping our users safe. The Central Integrity teams mission is to protect the Facebook community. This is a top priority for the company.
The Central Integrity team has built impressive foundations, addressed many problem areas, and addressed risks in elections and at-risk countries around the world. In the process, it has become increasingly clear that we must embrace that we operate in a fractal space with a need to address an ever-growing breadth of problems, surfaces, countries, and topics. Recognizing this ever-changing reality, Mission Control is a new team that was created to help us move towards a future where our teams and our systems are agile, enabling us to proactively and systematically handle these dimensions of integrity. And to ensure that we can not only handle these dimensions effectively, but also with legitimacy consistently, transparently, in a way that can be audited, etc. This is a unique opportunity to lead this important initiative. We are looking for an experienced leader who is excited by hard and ambiguous challenges.
Some of the key priorities of this team:
Proactively understanding and identifying Facebooks biggest multi-dimensional integrity risks, and ensuring we have context and situational awareness of these.
Provide a single source of truth for how all integrity teams at Facebook should prioritize and set goals, and reflect this in the Company-wide Integrity Goal.
Ensure Integrity is built from the ground up for new products such as Reels.
Evolve the vision for Data Transparency in collaboration with Policy, Comms, Marketing, Product & Engineering partners, to pre-emptively address concerns by proactive sharing the appropriate data narrative.
Represent Facebook in high-stakes meetings with regulators, advertisers, industry groups, non-profits, and academics to enable collaborative development of best practices.
The ideal candidate will be an effective communicator with experience building strong partnerships with cross-functional teams, as well as putting together external data narratives for non-technical audiences. The candidate should have strong analytical and technical skills, to help level up the capabilities of the team.

Data Science Manager, Integrity Ecosystems Mission Control Responsibilities

* Partner with Product, Engineering, and cross-functional teams to inform, influence, support, and execute product strategy and investment decisions.

* Apply your expertise in quantitative analysis, data mining, and the presentation of data to see beyond the numbers and understand how our users interact with our core products.

* Build and manage a team of the very top talent, with the ability to not only keep up with, but also pioneer, in this space.

* Be proactive with asking questions, ensuring that the right questions are being answered with appropriate level of rigor and that analyses lead to clear and actionable recommendations and impactful product changes.

Minimum Qualifications

* 5+ years experience in building high-performing data science and analytics teams, including managing managers.

* 8+ years of experience doing quantitative analysis.

* Working knowledge of predictive modeling, machine learning, and experimentation/causal inference methods.

* Proven judgment in balancing practical business needs and scientific rigor.

* Proven communication skills and experience connecting with and influencing a broad spectrum of audiences.

* Proven experience forming partnerships with and influence cross-functional leaders in engineering, product, design, research, etc.

Preferred Qualifications

* Masters or Ph.D. in a quantitative field (Economics, Computer Science, Physics)

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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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