Data Scientist, Product - Figma

Job Title: Data Scientist, Product
Job Location: San Francisco, CA • New York, NY • United States
Job Listing URL: https://boards.greenhouse.io/figma/jobs/5236286004?gh_jid=5236286004
Job Description: 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, design and build better products — from start to finish. Whether it’s consolidating tools, simplifying workflows, or collaborating across teams and time zones, Figma makes the design process faster, more efficient, and fun while keeping everyone on the same page. From great products to long-lasting companies, we believe that nothing great is made alone—come make with us!
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!

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 currently hiring for:

Product Foundations: The Product Foundations pillar owns user experience across Figma’s product offerings. As Figma expands beyond our flagship Design tool and FigJam, this team is responsible for ensuring our products work well together. As a data scientist on this team, you will partner closely with product and engineering to identify new opportunities to support the user journey across products - from core editing tools, navigation between files, collaborative tools such as notifications and commenting, and more. The ideal candidate is someone who loves to think about deep product challenges and is excited about working on a highly cross functional team that supports Figma’s suite of products..

What You'll Be Doing:

Leverage various data science methods such as machine learning, statistical modeling, and causal inference to understand user behavior and optimize the product experience

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’d love to hear from you if you have:

5+ years relevant work experience in Analytics, Data Science or Software Engineering.

Proven track record providing thought leadership to your team or organization.

Fluency in SQL.

Proficient programming skills in Python, R, or a similar scripting language.

Experience in distributed data processing systems and framework (Hive, Redshift, Presto, Snowflake, Spark, etc).

Firm knowledge around statistical methods and experiment design.

Excellent judgment and creative problem solving skills.

Excellent technical communication and relationship-building skills.

A growth mindset and experience investing in the learning, development, belonging, and impact of your peers.

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/

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.

Pay Transparency Disclosure

If based in Figma’s San Francisco or New York hub offices, this role has the annual base salary range stated below.

Job level and actual compensation will be decided based on factors including, but not limited to, individual qualifications objectively assessed during the interview process (including skills and prior relevant experience, potential impact, and scope of role), market demands, and specific work location. The listed range is a guideline, and the range for this role may be modified. For roles that are available to be filled remotely, the pay range is localized according to employee work location by a factor of between 80% and 100% of range. Please discuss your specific work location with your recruiter for more information.

Figma offers equity to employees, as well a competitive package of additional benefits, including health, dental & vision, retirement with company contribution, parental leave & reproductive or family planning support, mental health & wellness benefits, generous PTO, company recharge days, a learning & development stipend, a work from home stipend, and cell phone reimbursement. Figma also offers sales incentive pay for most sales roles. Figma’s compensation and benefits are subject to change and may be modified in the future. You may view our Pay Transparency Policy by clicking on the corresponding link.
Annual Base Salary Range (SF/NY Hub):
$164,000—$338,000 USD
At Figma we celebrate and support our differences. We know employing a team rich in diverse thoughts, experiences, and opinions allows our employees, our product and our community to flourish. Figma is an equal opportunity workplace - we are dedicated to equal employment opportunities regardless of race, color, ancestry, religion, sex, national origin, sexual orientation, age, citizenship, marital status, disability, gender identity/expression, veteran status, or any other characteristic protected by law. We also consider qualified applicants regardless of criminal histories, consistent with legal requirements.

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