Data Science Director

About the Role

We’re looking for a seasoned analytics leader to drive data-informed decisions for Meta. You will play a critical role in helping Meta build the platforms of the future. You will partner with the product and business teams that build and grow our infrastructure for the future of Meta. You will be focused on results, be proactive, deliver rigorous analyses, and use data to drive change in products, strategies, and organizations.

Responsibilities

• People Leadership: Inspire, lead, and grow a distributed team of data scientists and data science leaders across North America and Europe.
• Product Leadership: Use data to shape development, quantify new opportunities, identify upcoming challenges, and ensure the products we build bring value to people, businesses, and Meta. Help partner teams prioritize what to build, set goals, and understand their product’s ecosystem.
• Analytics: Guide teams using data and insights. Focus on developing hypotheses and employ a broad toolkit of rigorous analytical approaches, methodologies, frameworks, and technical approaches to test them.
• Communication and Influence: Tell data-driven stories, convince and influence partners using clear insights and recommendations. Build credibility through structure and clarity, and be a trusted strategic partner.

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 diverse experiences, perspectives, approaches, and backgrounds.
• Proven experience influencing strategy and driving change across organizational boundaries through clear and compelling communication of data-driven insights and analyses.
• Intellectual curiosity, drive, and decisiveness in 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, with a demonstrated ability to deliver an integrated approach.

Pay

$314,000/year to $361,000/year + bonus + equity + benefits. Individual compensation is determined by skills, qualifications, experience, and location. Compensation details listed in this posting reflect the base salary only and do not include bonus, equity, or sales incentives, if applicable.

Benefits

Meta offers benefits. Learn more about benefits at Meta.

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.