People Research Scientist, People Analytics

Meta Platforms, Inc.
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Job Description

We’re looking for an experienced people research scientist or data scientist practitioner to join our people analytics function. Our team uncovers data-driven insights to better attract, develop, motivate, and retain Facebook’s most important asset – our people. This role will serve as an active partner with HR and functional leaders to perform research and analyses on a broad spectrum of people issues: to optimize employee performance, growth, engagement, diversity, management and leadership development, learning, compensation (e.g., pay equity), and retention. You’ll also help develop and refine people processes to make an exceptional workplace even better. The ideal candidate will have strong quantitative skills and experience working across a variety of people areas.

People Research Scientist, People Analytics Responsibilities

  • Apply your expertise in people research, quantitative analysis, data science and data visualization to help Facebook recruit, select, grow, and retain talent
  • See beyond the data to identify solutions that will raise the bar for all things people-related
  • Collaborate with data engineering and visualization engineers to access and manipulate data, explain data gathering requirements, and display results
  • Partner with the HR, recruiting and diversity teams on people projects to identify and clarify critical people issues, deeply understand our people processes, and analyze data to drive improvements
  • Bring together Facebook-specific data and outside research to help leaders understand people issues
  • Communicate statistical analyses and results, along with implications, to technical and non-technical audiences
  • Collaborate effectively with the Employment Law team on a variety of sensitive projects
  • Collaborate effectively with and mentor other team members
  • Demonstrate exceptional judgment and discretion when dealing with highly sensitive people data

Minimum Qualifications

  • PhD with 3+ years of experience, or MS with 5+ years of experience in a field emphasizing people research in organizations (e.g., Industrial/Organizational Psychology, Organizational Behavior, Labor Economics, Management, Policy Analysis, etc.).
  • 3+ years of experience conducting quantitative people research in an organization or consulting environment, including working with stakeholders to understand and clarify their people research needs, and communicating analyses to technical and non-technical audiences.
  • Experience managing and analyzing structured and unstructured data using tools such as SQL, R or Python.
  • Experienced in survey design & analysis.
  • Experience communicating technical results to technical and non-technical audiences.

Preferred Qualifications

  • 3+ years of experience with machine learning, text mining/natural language processing (NLP) or modeling high-dimensional data
  • 3+ years of experience applying multivariate statistical methods such as GLM, analysis of quasi-experimental research designs with non-equivalent groups (e.g., regression adjustment, matching, propensity score stratification), longitudinal analysis, classification, dimension reduction, clustering, hierarchical linear (random effects) modeling, etc., to people research problems in organizations
  • 5+ years of experience working internally (as opposed to consulting) in an organization with 500+ professional employees (e.g., high-tech, financial services, healthcare, biotech, etc.)
  • Experience developing tools, conducting empirical research, practical implementation, knowledge of best practices in at least two of the following areas: employee engagement, performance management, diversity, management development, leadership development, learning and development, compensation (e.g., pay equity), or retention

Company Info.

Meta Platforms, Inc.

Meta Platforms (formerly known as Facebook Inc.) is a large technology company that was founded in 2004 by Mark Zuckerberg and several of his college roommates. The company is based in Menlo Park, California, and is primarily known for its flagship social media platform, Facebook. In addition to its consumer-facing products, Meta Platforms also offers a range of advertising and marketing services to businesses and organizations.

  • Industry
    Advertising,Consumer electronics,Social media Company,Artificial intelligence
  • No. of Employees
    76,000
  • Location
    1 Hacker Way, Menlo Park, CA 94025, USA
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