Data Scientist

Meta Meta · Big Tech · Menlo Park, CA +1 · Remote

Data Scientist role focused on collecting, organizing, interpreting, and summarizing statistical data to contribute to Meta product design and development. The role involves applying expertise in quantitative analysis, data mining, and data presentation to understand user interactions, partner with product and engineering teams, and inform product decisions. Responsibilities include exploratory analysis, product influence, and working with data infrastructure on problems of moderate scope.

What you'd actually do

  1. Collect, organize, interpret, and summarize statistical data in order to contribute to the design and development of Meta products.
  2. Apply 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.
  3. Partner with Product and Engineering teams to solve problems and identify trends and opportunities.
  4. Inform, influence, support, and execute our product decisions and product launches.
  5. May be assigned projects in various areas including, but not limited to, product operations, exploratory analysis, product influence, and data infrastructure.

Skills

Required

  • Bachelor’s degree (or foreign equivalent) in Statistics, Mathematics, Data Analytics, Computer Science, Engineering, Information Systems, Applied Sciences, or a related field
  • 24 months of experience in the job offered or in a related occupation
  • Experience with data querying languages (e.g. SQL)
  • scripting languages (e.g. Python)
  • statistical/mathematical software (e.g. R)
  • Work with large and complex data sets to solve a wide array of challenging problems using different analytical and statistical approaches
  • Apply technical expertise with quantitative analysis, experimentation, data mining, and the presentation of data to develop strategies for products
  • Identify and measure success of product efforts through goal setting, forecasting, and monitoring of key product metrics to understand trends
  • Define, understand, and test opportunities and levers to improve the product, and drive roadmaps through insights and recommendations
  • Partner with Product, Engineering, and cross-functional teams to inform, influence, support, and execute product strategy and investment decisions
  • Working in Hadoop and Hive primarily, sometimes MySQL, Oracle, and Vertica, automating analyses and authoring pipelines via SQL and Python based ETL framework