Data Scientist - Product

We're looking for experienced data scientists to work with our core product teams, who will take ownership of the team's data projects and serve as a strategic partner to Product, Engineering, Design, User Research, and Marketing.
Teams we're hiring for:
Community: We're looking for a senior data scientist to work with the Figma Community team, who will take ownership of this team's data projects and serve as a strategic partner to Product, Engineering, Design, User Research, and Marketing. In working with an independent product surface with a unique focus, your responsibilities would cover a broad set of work including exploratory analysis, experimentation, and model evaluation and improvement related to the content discovery experience. The ideal candidate will have a strong track record of using data to influence product teams and help them achieve their goals through both analytics and machine learning.
More about Figma Community : the vision for the team is to move Figma from standalone design tools to an ecosystem and platform. Community is where our users share, explore, and gain inspiration from one another. We provide the support for creators to thrive with the power of the design community and take their design process to the next level.
What You'll Be Doing :

• Design and evaluate experiments to measure improvements to UI and algorithms
• Generate ideas to creatively leverage data for shaping future product roadmaps
• Drive democratization of data through creation of new datasets and tooling
• Design and surface metrics to guide decision making
• Collaborate with cross-functional teams including Product, Engineering, Research, Design, Sales, and Marketing

We're looking for someone with :

• 3+ years relevant work experience
• Fluency in Python, R or similar scripting language
• Proficiency in SQL
• Experience in distributed data processing systems ( Hive, Redshift, Presto, Snowflake, etc)
• Breadth of knowledge around statistical methods and experiment design, including A/B testing, sequential testing, synthetic control, cluster-randomized testing
• Excellent judgment and creative problem solving skills
• A self-starting mindset along with strong communication and collaboration skills

Read more about our team:

• From experiment to launch
• By the numbers: one year of remote work
• Measuring the value of design systems
• Figma's Series D: The Decade of Design
• Figma's engineering values