Facebook

Data Scientist, Analytics - Emerging Business

Posted on: 14 Apr 2021

Menlo Park, CA

Job Description

Facebooks Emerging Businesss mission is to enable Creators and Businesses to deliver exceptional content and unique delightful experiences via Facebook, with the financial support of their audience. We basically encourage great partners to bring their magic onto Facebook, and users directly reward them for it. Our portfolio of products today includes: Paid Online Events (pay-gated synchronous experiences), Stars (lightweight gamified tipping), Subscriptions (monthly recurring support), and News Monetization (subscriber account linking and soon-to-be Project). In this role, you will work across all Emerging Business products to formulate a ranking and promotion strategy to accelerate the growth of both creators and users. Youll work with research, product management, and engineering counterparts to understand the biggest problems today, communicate meaningful recommendations to leadership, and integrate improvements into product. The ideal candidate will have experience and passion for both ML and product work. Additionally, you have demonstrated strong product leadership to tackle ambiguous questions and uncover the recommendations to drive the product roadmap by delivering solid analyses.

Data Scientist, Analytics - Emerging Business Responsibilities

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

* Define problems and opportunities in a complex or ambiguous area

* Inform, influence, support, and execute our product decisions and product launches

* Partner with Product, Engineering, and Research teams beyond your immediate team to improve current ranking and promotion implementation

* Monitor key product metrics, understanding root causes of changes in metrics

* Influence product teams through presentation of data-based recommendations, and clearly communicating state of business, experiment results, etc. to product teams

Minimum Qualifications

* Bachelors/Masters Degree with 4+ years (or PhD with 2+ years) of experience working within an analytical role

* Experience solving analytical problems using quantitative approaches

* Experience in SQL, Python, R or other programming languages

* Understanding of statistics (e.g., hypothesis testing, statistical inference, regressions, ML systems)

* Experience communicating the results of analyses with product and leadership teams to influence the strategy of the product

Preferred Qualifications

* 7+ years of experience working in an analytics organization

* Experience in ranking

* Experience building and training statistical models

* Experience designing and evaluating complex experiments

* Experience working in growth and marketing

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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.

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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