Director, Data Engineering

Meta Meta · Big Tech · Menlo Park, CA

Director of Data Engineering at Meta, focusing on measuring the impact of AI for Work (AI4W) across the enterprise. This 0->1 role involves building measurement frameworks, data pipelines, and instrumentation to track agent telemetry and outcome metrics. The goal is to quantify the ROI of AI tools, validate claimed impact, and shape the strategy for AI-augmented productivity. The role requires operating across diverse AI use cases and influencing stakeholders to evolve operating models for the AI era.

What you'd actually do

  1. Build measurement frameworks that work across wildly different AI tools and use cases (coding, analytics, recruiting, HR support, supply chain, finance and more)
  2. Create the dashboards, workspaces, semantic models and self-serve layers that let stakeholders across the company understand progress without pinging you
  3. Design and scale the data pipelines and instrumentation that capture agent telemetry, usage signals, and outcome metrics across a fragmented and fast-moving tool landscape
  4. Shape the strategy for how we think about productivity, time savings, and quality improvements in an AI-augmented workforce
  5. Influence how Analytics (and business functions) evolve their operating models, job profiles, and organization structures for the AI era

Skills

Required

  • AI power user
  • 0->1 builder experience
  • Speed + rigor
  • Executive communication
  • Cross-functional influence
  • Honesty
  • Demonstrated ability to integrate AI tools to optimize/redesign workflows and drive measurable impact
  • Experience adhering to and implementing responsible, ethical AI practices
  • Demonstrated ongoing AI skill development (e.g., prompt/context engineering, agent orchestration)
  • Experience with productivity/efficiency measurement, internal tools, or enterprise products
  • Familiarity with LLMs, agentic systems, or AI tooling
  • Prior experience in a founding/early team member role

Nice to have

  • Data Science or Data Engineering profiles
  • Analytics
  • Enterprise Engineering (EE)
  • Metamate, Devmate, Analytics Agent, vibe coding platforms
  • Metamate, Claude, Cursor
  • prompt/context engineering
  • agent orchestration
  • LLMs
  • agentic systems
  • AI tooling

What the JD emphasized

  • 0->1 role
  • high ambiguity
  • direct visibility to leadership
  • shape how 70,000+ people work
  • measure whether it's actually working
  • measurements are nascent
  • Firefighter Mode Leadership asks "what's the ROI of [new AI tool]" on Wednesday. You have an answer by Friday
  • A team claims their AI initiative saved 10,000 hours. You validate (or invalidate) it
  • You rapidly instrument, measure, and communicate whether it's working
  • You jump into whatever is urgent and ambiguous—and you close it
  • 0→1 builder experience
  • You've built measurement systems from scratch in ambiguous spaces
  • You don't wait for requirements—you define them
  • Speed + rigor
  • Executive communication
  • Cross-functional influence
  • Honesty
  • Some AI initiatives won't work
  • Some claimed impact will be inflated
  • You'll need to call it like you perceive it
  • Demonstrated ability to integrate AI tools to optimize/redesign workflows and drive measurable impact
  • Experience adhering to and implementing responsible, ethical AI practices
  • Demonstrated ongoing AI skill development
  • Prior experience in a founding/early team member role

Other signals

  • AI for Work (AI4W)
  • integrate AI into every tool, team, and process
  • autonomous agents that don't just advise but execute
  • measurement frameworks are nascent
  • build measurement frameworks that work across wildly different AI tools and use cases
  • design and scale the data pipelines and instrumentation that capture agent telemetry, usage signals, and outcome metrics
  • shape the strategy for how we think about productivity, time savings, and quality improvements in an AI-augmented workforce
  • AI power user
  • 0->1 builder experience
  • integrate AI tools to optimize/redesign workflows and drive measurable impact
  • responsible, ethical AI practices
  • prompt/context engineering, agent orchestration