Data Science Director

Meta

$180K — $250K *
Information Technology
11 - 15 years of experience
Job Overview by Ladders

Qualifications

  • 15+ years managing analytics teams in product and infrastructure settings
  • Experience hiring and scaling geographically diverse, high-performing teams
  • Ability to influence strategy across organizational boundaries
  • Intellectual curiosity and decisiveness in complex environments
  • Strong stakeholder management and cross-functional collaboration skills
  • Effective communication skills for conveying complex data insights

Responsibilities

  • Inspire and lead a distributed team of data scientists across North America and Europe
  • Develop data-informed strategies to enhance product offerings using quantitative analysis
  • Contribute to the long-term technical vision and improve product quality and efficiency
  • Communicate product insights and actionable recommendations to Meta Analytics leadership
  • Utilize data and insights to inform and guide partner teams' goals and priorities

Benefits

  • Collaboration with teams across North America and Europe
  • Opportunity to influence product development at scale
  • Access to a wide range of analytical methodologies and tools
  • Be part of a visionary team shaping data strategies for Meta
  • Work in an intellectually stimulating environment with diverse perspectives
Full Job Description
About the role: People leadership: You will inspire, lead Product leadership: You will use data to shape development, quantify new opportunities, identify upcoming challenges, and ensure the products we build bring value to people, businesses, and Meta. You will help your partner teams prioritize what to build, set goals, and understand their product's ecosystem. Analytics: You will guide teams using data and insights. You will focus on developing hypotheses and employ a broad 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 your partners using clear insights and recommendations. You will build credibility through structure and clarity, and be a trusted strategic partner.

Responsibilities

Inspire, lead and grow a distributed team of data scientists and data science leaders across North America and Europe.
• 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.
• Contribute to long-term technical vision and strategy methods and metrics that will improve the quality and efficiency of our products at scale.
• Lead development and communication of product area insights and recommended action items with Meta Analytics leadership.

Minimum Qualifications
• 15+ years of work experience managing analytics teams, working collaboratively with Product and Infrastructure teams, and guiding data-influenced product and business planning, prioritization and strategy development
• Demonstrated experience in hiring, retaining and scaling geographically dispersed, high-performing teams with a broad range of experiences, perspectives, approaches, and backgrounds
• Proven experience influencing strategy and driving change across org boundaries through clear and compelling communication of data-driven insights and analyses
• Intellectual curiosity, drive, and decisiveness with ambiguous and complex environments
• Experience working effectively with multiple stakeholders and cross-functionally
• Effective communication skills

Preferred Qualifications
• Experience with both product and business analytics work and demonstrated to deliver an integrated approach

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