Social Impacts mission is to maximize Facebook as a force for good to create real world impact. Within Social Impact, Racial Justice is a new team focused specifically on creating a global culture of equity and empowerment in FB products. You will lead the central Social Impact Data Science team for Racial Justice products, ensuring we build a cohesive user experience that unlocks positive real world impact for our community. Youll also work closely with leading experts and our global partner community to incorporate best practices from research and community leaders. Racial Justices focus will be on our products around making our products more equitable to all and building new products to empower people of color. The Racial Justice Data Scientist will work on understanding and measuring the disparate impact of our team and companys products on different populations, including historically disadvantaged and vulnerable populations, and creating new experiences to empower users to overcome real world challenges. This Data Scientist will work closely with the product, engineering, research, design and other cross-functional teams within the Social Impact product, as well as teams across Facebook family of products. The ideal candidate should demonstrate success in dealing with ambiguity and using analytics to drive the understanding, progression, and growth of a product. The candidate should also be an effective communicator with experience building strong partnerships with cross-functional teams, as well as researchers and community leaders.
Data Scientist, Analytics - Social Impact (Racial Justice) Responsibilities
* Defining Racial Justice vertical product goals and measurement
* Take highly ambiguous problems (including emergent problems in the world) and form a structured opinion on what we should do (if anything)
* Communicate effectively to a wide range of stakeholders, including executives, external leaders in the Health space, and other DS on the Health team
* 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 both our consumer and business products
* Inform, influence, support, and execute product decisions and product launches
Minimum Qualifications
* Bachelors/Masters Degree with 4+ years (or PhD with 2+ years) of experience working within an analytical role
* Experience with a quantitative analytical role in a technology company, consulting, investment banking, or product management
* Experience with SQL or other programming languages
* Experience influencing product strategy through data-centric presentations (to product, business, and other stakeholders)
* Experience extracting and manipulating large datasets
* Proven experience in experimentation including A/B testing within networks
Preferred Qualifications
* 7+ years of experience working in an analytics organization
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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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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.