Meta is seeking a Staff Data Scientist to drive product strategy and decision-making across our family of applications, including Facebook, Instagram, Messenger, WhatsApp, and Meta's emerging platforms. In this role, you will operate as a company-level expert in product analytics, partnering with Product, Engineering, and cross-functional leadership to translate complex, large-scale behavioral data into actionable insights that shape the experiences of billions of people worldwide. You will lead the design of rigorous analytical frameworks, advance forecasting and predictive modeling capabilities, and influence the highest-priority product investments through data-driven storytelling and strategic recommendations.
Data Scientist, Product Analytics Responsibilities:
- Lead the design and execution of complex analytical projects across product areas, applying advanced statistical methods, causal inference, and experimentation to evaluate product impact at scale
- Develop and maintain sophisticated predictive models and forecasting frameworks to inform product roadmaps, goal setting, and resource prioritization
- Define and evolve success metrics and measurement strategies for product initiatives, ensuring goals accurately reflect user and business value
- Identify and size high-impact product opportunities by synthesizing behavioral data, qualitative signals, and business context across multiple data sources
- Partner with Product and Engineering teams to design and analyze large-scale A/B tests and feature rollouts, translating results into clear recommendations for product direction
- Build scalable, self-service data pipelines and visualization interfaces that enable cross-functional teams to explore and act on product performance data independently
- Communicate complex analytical findings to diverse audiences including product leadership and executives through concise, compelling data narratives and presentations
- Contribute to functional data science strategy by proactively identifying methodological gaps, championing analytical best practices, and setting goals across teams
- Mentor other data scientists on analytical design, hypothesis formulation, and quantitative modeling, elevating the overall quality and rigor of the team's work
- Collaborate with Data Engineering and Research partners to improve data infrastructure, eliminate bias in data collection, and ensure analytical outputs accurately represent the populations of interest
Minimum Qualifications:
- A minimum of 6 years of work experience in analytics (a minimum of 4 years with a Ph.D.)
- Experience with data querying languages (e.g., SQL), scripting languages (e.g., Python), and/or statistical/mathematical software (e.g., R)
Preferred Qualifications:
- Experience adhering to and implementing responsible, ethical AI practices (e.g., risk assessment, bias mitigation, quality and accuracy reviews)
- Experience in 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
- Demonstrated ability to integrate AI tools to optimize/redesign workflows and drive measurable impact (e.g., efficiency gains, quality improvements)
About Meta:
Meta builds technologies that help people connect, find communities, and grow businesses. When Facebook launched in 2004, it changed the way people connect. Apps like Messenger, Instagram and WhatsApp further empowered billions around the world. Now, Meta is moving beyond 2D screens toward immersive experiences like augmented and virtual reality to help build the next evolution in social technology. People who choose to build their careers by building with us at Meta help shape a future that will take us beyond what digital connection makes possible today—beyond the constraints of screens, the limits of distance, and even the rules of physics.
Individual compensation is determined by skills, qualifications, experience, and location. Compensation details listed in this posting reflect the base hourly rate, monthly rate, or annual salary only, and do not include bonus, equity or sales incentives, if applicable. In addition to base compensation, Meta offers benefits. Learn more about benefits at Meta.