Data Science Manager

Meta; London; On-site; GBP 70,000 - 110,000; Full time

Job summary

As a Data Science Manager at a leading tech company, you will lead analytics efforts that shape product strategies impacting billions of users. Your role involves guiding teams in analyzing large datasets, influencing product direction, and fostering data-driven decision-making while mentoring emerging data leaders.

Qualifications

• Experience with analytical project management and team leadership required.
• Proficiency in SQL, Python, or R is essential.
• Strong ability to communicate analytical findings to leadership.

Responsibilities

• Lead a team of data scientists to inform product strategy.
• Drive analytics projects end-to-end in collaboration with cross-functional teams.
• Utilize data to understand product ecosystems and provide actionable insights.

Skills

Data querying languages

Scripting languages

Statistical/mathematical software

Analytical thinking

Leadership

Communication

Education

Bachelor's degree in a quantitative field

Master's or Ph.D. in Mathematics, Statistics, Computer Science, Engineering, or Economics

Job description

As a Data Science Manager at Meta, you will help shape the future of the experiences we build for billions of people and hundreds of millions of businesses, creators, and partners around the world. You will apply your people leadership, project management, analytical, and technical skills, creativity, and product intuition to one of the largest data sets in the world. You will collaborate on a wide array of product and business problems with a wide-range of cross-functional partners across Product, Engineering, Research, Data Engineering, Marketing, Sales, Finance and others. You will influence product strategy and investment decisions with data, be focused on impact, and lead and grow a impact oriented team. By joining Meta, you will become part of the analytics community dedicated to skill development and career growth in analytics and beyond. About the role: Product leadership: You will use data to understand the product and business ecosystem, quantify new opportunities, identify upcoming challenges, and shape product development to bring value to people, businesses, and Meta. You will help develop strategy and support leadership in prioritizing what to build and setting goals for execution. Analytics: You will guide product teams using data and insights. You will focus on developing hypotheses and employ a varied toolkit of rigorous analytical approaches, different methodologies, frameworks, and technical approaches to test them. Communication and influence: You won't simply present data, but tell data-driven stories. You will convince and influence leaders using clear insights and recommendations. You will build credibility through structure and clarity, and be a trusted strategic partner. People leadership: You will inspire, lead and grow a team of data scientists and data science leaders.

Data Science Manager Responsibilities

• Lead a team of data scientists to develop strategies for our products that serve billions of people and hundreds of millions of businesses, creators, and partners around the world.
• Drive analytics projects end-to-end in partnership with Product, Engineering, and cross-functional teams to inform, influence, support, and execute product strategy and investment decisions.
• Influence product direction through clear and compelling presentations to leadership.
• Work with large and complex data sets to solve a wide array of challenging problems using different analytical and statistical approaches.
• 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 your insights and recommendations.
• Contribute towards advancing the Data Science discipline at Meta, including but not limited to driving data best practices (e.g. analysis, goaling, experimentation), improving analytical processes, scaling knowledge and tools, and mentoring other data scientists.

Minimum Qualifications

• Currently has, or is in the process of obtaining, a Bachelor's degree or equivalent practical experience. Degree ideally should be completed before joining Meta.
• A minimum of 4 years of work experience (2+ years with a Ph.D.) in applied analytics, including a minimum of 2 years of experience managing analytics teams.
• Experience with data querying languages (e.g. SQL), scripting languages (e.g. Python), and/or statistical/mathematical software (e.g. R).
• Experience initiating and completing analytical projects with minimal guidance.
• Experience communicating results of analysis to leadership.

Preferred Qualifications

• Master's or Ph.D. degree in Mathematics, Statistics, Computer Science, Engineering, Economics, or another quantitative field.
• Experience working in technology, consulting, or finance.
• Proven track record of leading impact oriented analytics teams.

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.

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