Data Scientist - Strategic Finance

Figma is growing our team of passionate people on a mission to make design accessible to all. Born on the Web Figma helps entire product teams brainstorm create test and ship better designs together. From great products to long-lasting companies we believe that nothing great is made alone—come make with us!

The Strategic Finance team is focused on solving some of Figma’s most pressing business issues. The team is responsible for owning the company's budget and top level business objectives driving annual and quarterly planning processes forecasting future company growth and performing financial analysis to inform our business strategy. You’ll be bringing a high level of rigor to the highest priority business issues and will interface regularly with senior leaders at the company. The ideal candidate is a great communicator with both technical and non technical counterparts extremely detail oriented and comfortable with ambiguity. Familiarity with financial data would be a huge plus.

This is a full time role that can be held from one of our US hubs or remotely in the United States.

What you'll do at Figma:

• Take ownership of our financial data pipelines

• Partner with the Strategic Finance team to improve financial forecasting methods

• Perform data analysis and build models such as customer LTV and propensity to buy to refine our long term strategy

• Drive metrics understanding and operationalize usage of KPIs

• Collaborate with cross organizational teams including finance growth product marketing and sales to set team level targets that contribute to company objectives.

• Prepare metrics updates for the executive team and the broader company.

We’d love to hear from you if you have:

• 5+ years relevant work experience in Analytics or Data Science

• Experience working with financial data and metrics

• Fluency in SQL

• Proficiency in Python R or similar scripting language

• Experience in distributed data processing systems (Hive Redshift Presto Snowflake etc)

• Firm knowledge around statistical methods including forecasting

• Excellent judgment and creative problem solving skills

• A self-starting mindset along with strong communication and collaboration skills

At Figma one of our values is Grow as you go. We believe in hiring smart curious people who are excited to learn and develop their skills. If you’re excited about this role but your past experience doesn’t align perfectly with the points outlined in the job description we encourage you to apply anyways. You may be just the right candidate for this or other roles.

Read more about our team:

• https://www.figma.com/blog/cross-functional-data-science-user-research-figma/

• https://www.figma.com/blog/how-we-use-data/

• https://www.figma.com/blog/from-experiment-to-launch-how-data-shaped-a-new-comments-experience/

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