Data Scientist

Meta Meta · Big Tech · Menlo Park, CA

Data Scientist role at Meta focused on analyzing large datasets, developing product strategies, and driving product roadmaps through data-driven insights and collaboration with cross-functional teams.

What you'd actually do

  1. Work with large and complex data sets to solve a wide array of challenging problems using different analytical and statistical approaches.
  2. Apply technical expertise with quantitative analysis, experimentation, data mining, and the presentation of data to develop strategies for our products that serve billions of people and hundreds of millions of businesses.
  3. Identify and measure success of product efforts through goal setting, forecasting, and monitoring of key product metrics to understand trends.
  4. Define, understand, and test opportunities and levers to improve the product, and drive roadmaps through your insights and recommendations.
  5. Partner with Product, Engineering, and cross-functional teams to inform, influence, support, and execute product strategy and investment decisions.

Skills

Required

  • Master's degree (or foreign degree equivalent) in Engineering, Mathematics, Statistics, Computer Science, Computer Engineering, Management of Technology or a related field
  • 2 years of experience in analytics
  • Data querying language SQL
  • Scripting languages including: Python or similar scripting language
  • Statistical/mathematical packages
  • Working with large and complex data sets
  • Quantitative analysis
  • Experimentation
  • Data mining
  • Presentation of data
  • Goal setting
  • Forecasting
  • Monitoring of key product metrics
  • Defining opportunities and levers to improve the product
  • Driving roadmaps through insights and recommendations
  • Partnering with product, engineering, and cross-functional teams