Competitive Intelligence Research

Meta Meta · Big Tech · Bellevue, WA +2

This role is for a Senior Analyst in Meta's Competitive Intelligence organization, focusing on advanced analytics, data science, and market strategy. The individual will lead projects, drive business outcomes, and influence product direction using data-driven insights. A key aspect involves leveraging AI-powered tools, including Generative AI, LLMs, and AI agents, for tasks like automating data analysis, synthesizing insights, and orchestrating analytical workflows. The role requires experience with statistical modeling, causal inference, data triangulation, and ethical AI practices.

What you'd actually do

  1. Influence organization-level product direction through data-driven narratives and an in depth understanding of the market landscape.
  2. Conduct advanced analyses with 3P datasets, develop statistical models and forecasts, and deliver actionable insights that informs market and business strategy.
  3. Act as a recognized professional in a technical or methodological area (e.g., causal inference, bayesian aggregation), driving the adoption of advanced methods and organization-wide best practices that raise the bar for the entire team
  4. Ensure data privacy, security, and compliance with organizational standards.
  5. Champion data quality frameworks and documentation practices that enable credible reproducible analyses

Skills

Required

  • SQL
  • Python
  • R
  • Causal inference
  • Bayesian aggregation
  • Generative AI technologies
  • LLM and AI agents
  • Prompt engineering
  • Orchestrating AI systems
  • Statistical modeling
  • Data analysis
  • Data triangulation
  • Ethical AI practices

Nice to have

  • Econometrics
  • Quasi-experimental designs
  • Synthetic control
  • Diff-in-diff
  • Meta-analyses
  • Bayesian pooling
  • Hierarchical modeling

What the JD emphasized

  • significant ambiguity or technical complexity
  • hands-on, high-impact role for builders who thrive on solving real problems
  • unique blend of analytical and statistical expertise, strategic thinking
  • translate complex insights into impactful product and business decisions
  • thought partner by cross-functional leads
  • shape the analytical foundations
  • working knowledge of econometrics
  • quantitative market-strategist
  • practical and applied understanding with technical expertise
  • pressure-testing data for quality, reliability, understanding data-biases and being solution driven
  • advanced analyses
  • statistical models and forecasts
  • actionable insights
  • Data onboarding: Identify, onboard, and rigorously evaluate 3P datasets to determine their signal-to-noise ratio and predictive power
  • Data triangulation: Triangulate data from many sources of imperfect information.
  • Synthesize multiple, low-fidelity 3rd-party signals into a single high-fidelity trend report using Bayesian aggregation or other methods
  • Data transformation: Apply quasi-experimental designs (e.g., synthetic control, diff-in-diff), using 3rd-party behavioral and economic datasets
  • Insight and implications: Apply guidance from such analyses to increase the accuracy of forecasts and better understand market trends
  • recognized professional in a technical or methodological area
  • driving the adoption of advanced methods and organization-wide best practices
  • raise the bar for the entire team
  • Data Governance & Quality: Ensure data privacy, security, and compliance with organizational standards.
  • Champion data quality frameworks and documentation practices that enable credible reproducible analyses
  • Resourceful, adaptable professional with a bias for action
  • minimum of 6 years of work experience (minimum of 4 years with a Ph.D.)
  • Demonstrated skill to ethically source, validate, and synthesize high-signal insights from people
  • maintaining high standards for privacy, consent, and integrity
  • Proficiency in AI-powered tools
  • Demonstrate working knowledge of Generative AI technologies (e.g., LLM and AI agents)
  • experience designing, prompting, and orchestrating AI systems (e.g., prompt engineering)
  • automate data analyses, synthesize insights, and execute multi-step analytical tasks
  • Practical working understanding of data-analytics tools
  • direct experience managing, analyzing, manipulating and interpreting 1P and external 3P datasets
  • Experience with data querying languages (e.g., SQL), scripting languages (e.g., Python), and/or statistical/mathematical software (e.g., R)
  • Proven experience with statistical analysis including causal inference (e.g., randomized control trials, quasi-experimentation such as synthetic control, diff-in-diff, meta-analyses), and/or bayesian aggregation (e.g., bayesian pooling, hierarchical modeling)
  • Demonstrated communication skills and experience presenting complex findings to both technical and non-technical stakeholders
  • Demonstrated experience thriving in ambiguous environments and shape new analytics organizations or products
  • Master's or Ph.D. Degree in a quantitative field
  • Demonstrated ability to integrate AI tools to optimize/redesign workflows and drive measurable impact
  • Experience adhering to and implementing responsible, ethical AI practices (e.g., risk assessment, bias mitigation, quality and accuracy reviews)
  • Demonstrated ongoing AI skill development (e.g., prompt/context engineering, agent orchestration) and staying current with emerging AI technologies