We're looking for Instagram's Data Science lead for the Sharing Product Group, which is responsible for Instagram Stories, Direct messaging, Notes, broadcast sharing products like Feed and Reels creation, and overseeing the app's rich creator ecosystem. The Director of Data Science is directly responsible for managing the data science team to ensure proper goaling, experimentation, and forecasting and to develop insights that identify the biggest opportunities for the Instagram community and drive overall group strategy. Additionally, this leader is responsible for leadership development with Sharing analytics to ensure the org has capacity to further scale. This leader will serve on Instagram's core analytics leadership circle to help improve cross-Instagram Analytics team processes such as recruiting, training, and performance management, and will work closely with leadership across the app.You will enjoy working with one of the richest data sets in the world, cutting edge technology, and the ability to see your insights turned into real products on a regular basis. The perfect candidate will have strong consumer product intuition, experience building and managing analytics teams, will have worked with large data stores, and experience building software. You are scrappy, focused on results, a self-starter, and have demonstrated success in using analytics to drive the understanding, progression, and user engagement of a product.
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Data Science Director, Instagram Sharing Responsibilities:
- Partner with Product, Engineering, and cross-functional teams to inform, influence, support, and execute product strategy and investment decisions.
- Inspire, lead and grow a team of data scientists.
- Apply your expertise in quantitative analysis, data mining, and the presentation of data in developing data-informed strategies for growing and improving our product offerings.
- Partner with, and influence through data, other teams across the Facebook Family of Apps (Facebook, Instagram, WhatsApp, Messenger).
- 10+ years of work experience managing analytics teams, working collaboratively with Product, Engineering and cross-functional partners, and guiding data-influenced product planning, prioritization and strategy development.
- Demonstrated experience in hiring, retaining and scaling diverse, geographically dispersed, high-performing teams.
- Proven experience influencing product strategy and drive change across org boundaries through clear and compelling communication of data-driven insights and analyses.
- Intellectual curiosity and drive experience, decisiveness, ambiguity and complexity, bias towards action.
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.
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$314,000/year to $361,000/year + bonus + equity + benefits
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.