Job Description

The social networking space continues to trend more and more towards private sharing and Messenger is at the center of our innovation. In this role, you will have the opportunity to understand and define a key component of that strategy and help shape the future of messaging products at FB (and consequently the world). Within the Messaging App Experiences team, our mission is to enrich communication for people by building fun and intuitive messaging experiences enhanced by advanced ML modeling. We are looking for a passionate, autonomous, impact seeker who will work cross functionally with Product, Engineering and design leads. You are excited about developing 0-1 products and are eager to better understand various Messenger/Instagram Inbox features. Join The Messaging App experiences team and make over 1 billion users to become more meaningfully engaged.

Data Scientist, Analytics - Messenger Inbox Responsibilities

* Build long term vision, goals, scope, and measurement out of the area for the team

* Have strong ownership to drive the initiatives to impact the product development and growth

* Embrace the ambiguity, uncertainties, and enjoy being out of your comfort zone while closely supporting each other

* Build and validate the hypothesis of modeling product ideas

* Leverage data to inform the right business decision, such as designing how to evaluate model updates and whether they should be launched

* Understand model stability and sources of volatility

* Design and implement data-driven systems to improve the Inbox user experiences

Minimum Qualifications

* BS, MS or PhD Degree in Statistics, Computer Science, Engineering, Econometrics, or similar domain

* 5+ years of experience working in an analytics organization

* Genuine interest in going into the data to build theory and tell story from it

* Proven Machine Learning sense and statistical knowledge

* Experience working independently and as a member of a cross-functional team

* Experience in querying and manipulating large datasets for analysis

* Great communication skills to influence others

* R/Python and SQL experience

* Experience answering big picture questions by framing the business question into an analytical plan and communicate to stakeholders

* Strategic thinking and can drive the direction of the team

Preferred Qualifications

* Experience in leading projects from 0 to 1

* Experience in A/B testing and ML modeling

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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 support (called accommodations) in our recruiting processes for candidates with disabilities, long term conditions, mental health conditions or who are neurodivergent, and to candidates with sincerely held religious beliefs or requiring pregnancy related support. If you need support, please reach out to accommodations-ext@fb.com.