Location
London

Hours
Full Time

Salary
Negotiable

About the Role
Meta is seeking a Data Scientist to drive product strategy and decision-making across our family of applications, including Facebook, Instagram, Messenger, WhatsApp, and Meta's emerging platforms. In this role, you will apply advanced quantitative analysis, statistical modeling, and data-driven storytelling to shape how billions of people experience our products. You will partner closely with Product, Engineering, Research, and cross-functional teams to identify opportunities, define success metrics, design experiments, and translate complex data into clear, actionable recommendations that influence product direction and investment decisions at scale. You will work with large and complex data sets to solve a wide array of challenging problems using different analytical and statistical approaches. Apply your technical expertise with quantitative analysis, experimentation, data mining, and data presentation to develop strategies for products that serve billions of people and hundreds of millions of businesses. Identify and measure success of product efforts through goal setting, forecasting, and monitoring of key product metrics to understand trends. Define, understand, and test opportunities and levers to improve the product, driving roadmaps through your insights and recommendations. Partner with Product, Engineering, and cross-functional teams to inform, influence, support, and execute product strategy and investment decisions.

Experience
4+ years of experience with data querying languages (e.g. SQL), scripting languages (e.g. Python), and/or statistical/mathematical software (e.g. R). 4+ years solving analytical problems using quantitative approaches, understanding ecosystems, user behaviors, and long-term product trends. Proven track record leading data-driven projects from definition to execution, including defining metrics, experiment design, and communicating actionable insights. Demonstrated ability to integrate AI tools to optimize/redesign workflows and drive measurable impact such as efficiency gains and quality improvements. Ongoing AI skill development including prompt/context engineering and agent orchestration. Experience adhering to and implementing responsible, ethical AI practices including risk assessment, bias mitigation, and quality and accuracy reviews.

About you
You are a highly analytical thinker with strong quantitative skills and a passion for data-driven product development. You thrive in collaborative environments and can effectively communicate complex data insights to diverse stakeholders. You stay current with emerging AI technologies and are committed to ethical AI practices. You are motivated to influence product strategy at scale and enjoy solving challenging problems with innovative approaches.

Qualifications
Bachelor's degree in Mathematics, Statistics, a relevant technical field, or equivalent experience. Master's or Ph.D. degree in a quantitative field is preferred.