Data Scientist - WhatsApp Calling/Remote Presence

Key Skills

Python Programming, SQL, Apache Hadoop, R Programming

Job Description

Facebook's mission is to give people the power to build community and bring the world closer together. Through our family of apps and services, we're building a different kind of company that connects billions of people around the world, gives them ways to share what matters most to them, and helps bring people closer together. Whether we're creating new products or helping a small business expand its reach, people at Facebook are builders at heart. Our global teams are constantly iterating, solving problems, and working together to empower people around the world to build community and connect in meaningful ways. Together, we can help people build stronger communities - we're just getting started.

WhatsApp’s Remote Presence/VoIP is a critical part to building our online community services and bringing our users around the globe closer to each other. Our video/audio calling service is used by over 700 million people every day. This role offers the opportunity to lead the team by establishing a data informed product strategy, scaling the team into expanded scope, elevating our execution among product, performance and experimentation areas and supporting individual growth for the team.

Responsibilities

• Develop measurement plans for new product or feature development to establish logging requirements, success criteria, and new metrics
• Develop new statistical methods/tools to help engineers design and evaluate experimental results
• Perform trend, cohort, and competitor analysis to identify opportunities to improve the calling experience for our users or highlight risks in topline metrics
• Collaborate with cross-functional partners to establish prioritized product roadmaps

Minimum Qualification

• Bachelor's degree in Mathematics, Statistics, a relevant technical field, or equivalent practical experience
• 7+ years of work experience in data science, analytics, measurement technology, or research
• Experience in presenting technical content across different stakeholder audiences and influencing decisions
• Experience in data logging, metric development, exploratory data analysis, statistical modeling, A/B testing, data visualization, and coding

Preferred Qualification

• Experience with calling, VOIP, and telecommunications products
• Experience with machine learning model development and optimization
• Experience with performance and reliability for real-time communication products