Data Science Manager, Instagram

Key Skills

Java Programming, Sass, Python Programming, SQL, MATLAB Programming, Microsoft HyperVetc, R Programming, SPSS Statistics

Job Description

At Instagram, we're looking for analytics leaders with a passion to build products to serve people and business on our platforms. The perfect candidate has a demonstrated ability to turn data into actionable decisions and high-quality products, delivering insights effectively to influence company leadership. Additionally, we are looking for someone who has experience growing and managing world-class analytics teams, empowering teams of data scientists to drive product strategy. You and your team will use advanced analytical methodologies and work with some of the largest datasets to tackle challenging problems for our billion+ users.

Responsibilities

• Help build and lead a great data science team to deliver world-class products
• Apply your expertise in quantitative analysis, data mining, and the presentation of data to see beyond the numbers and understand how our users interact with our core products
• Partner with Product and Engineering teams to solve problems and identify trends and opportunities
• Inform, influence, support, and execute our product decisions
• Build/maintain reports, dashboards, and metrics to monitor the performance of our products
• Manage development of data resources, gather requirements, organize sources, and support product launches while keeping the team accountable and impactful

Minimum Qualifications

• 4+ years of experience in growing and managing an analytics team including managers
• 6+ years of experience doing quantitative analysis at a technology company, consulting, investment banking, or product management including experience with SQL or other programming languages
• Experience initiating and drive projects to completion with minimal guidance
• Experience communicating and representing results of analysis to senior leadership
• 6+ years of experience with applied statistics or experimentation (i.e. A/B testing) in an industry setting
• 4+ years of experience communicating the results of analyses to leadership teams to influence the strategy

Preferred Qualifications

• Bachelor Degree in Computer Science, Math, Physics, Engineering, or related quantitative field
• Understanding of statistical analysis, experience with packages, such as R, MATLAB, SPSS, SAS, Stata, etc.
• Experience with large data sets and distributed computing (Hive/Hadoop)