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Data Scientist, Product Analytics

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Compensation
$147–208K/yr
Location
Los Angeles, CA
Work Authorization
Not specified

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Job overview

The Data Scientist, Product Analytics at Meta uses data and analysis to address product and business challenges across its family of applications. The role shapes product development, identifies opportunities, measures product outcomes, and informs strategy and investment decisions. It works with cross-functional partners and communicates data-driven insights and recommendations to guide product priorities and roadmaps.

Skills & qualifications

RequiredNice to have

Skills

Quantitative AnalysisExperimentationData MiningData PresentationGoal SettingForecastingProduct MetricsProduct StrategySQLPythonRAnalytical Problem SolvingUnderstanding User BehaviorData-Driven Project LeadershipMetric DefinitionExperiment DesignCommunicating InsightsAI Workflow OptimizationResponsible AI PracticesRisk AssessmentBias MitigationPrompt EngineeringContext EngineeringAgent Orchestration

Qualifications

Bachelor's in Computer Science or EquivalentBachelor's in Mathematics or Equivalent4+ Years Analytics and Data Tools Experience4+ Years Analytical Problem-Solving ExperienceMaster's or PhD in Quantitative Field

Full job description

Summary:

As a Data Scientist at Meta, you will shape the future of people-facing and business-facing products we build across our entire family of applications (Facebook, Instagram, Messenger, WhatsApp, Oculus). By applying your technical skills, analytical mindset, and product intuition to one of the richest data sets in the world, you will help define the experiences we build for billions of people and hundreds of millions of businesses around the world. You will collaborate on a wide array of product and business problems with a wide-range of cross-functional partners across Product, Engineering, Research, Data Engineering, Marketing, Sales, Finance and others. You will use data and analysis to identify and solve product development's biggest challenges. You will influence product strategy and investment decisions with data, be focused on impact, and collaborate with other teams. By joining Meta, you will become part of a world-class analytics community dedicated to skill development and career growth in analytics and beyond.Product leadership: You will use data to shape product development, quantify new opportunities, identify upcoming challenges, and ensure the products we build bring value to people, businesses, and Meta. You will help your partner teams prioritize what to build, set goals, and understand their product's ecosystem.Analytics: You will guide teams using data and insights. You will focus on developing hypotheses and employ a varied toolkit of rigorous analytical approaches, different methodologies, frameworks, and technical approaches to test them.Communication and influence: You won't simply present data, but tell data-driven stories. You will convince and influence your partners using clear insights and recommendations. You will build credibility through structure and clarity, and be a trusted strategic partner.

Required Skills:

Data Scientist, Product Analytics Responsibilities:

  1. Work with large and complex data sets to solve a wide array of challenging problems using different analytical and statistical approaches

  2. Apply technical expertise with quantitative analysis, experimentation, data mining, and the presentation of data to develop strategies for our products that serve billions of people and hundreds of millions of businesses

  3. Identify and measure success of product efforts through goal setting, forecasting, and monitoring of key product metrics to understand trends

  4. Define, understand, and test opportunities and levers to improve the product, and drive roadmaps through your insights and recommendations

  5. Partner with Product, Engineering, and cross-functional teams to inform, influence, support, and execute product strategy and investment decisions

Minimum Qualifications:

Minimum Qualifications:

  1. Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Computer Engineering, relevant technical field, or equivalent practical experience

  2. Bachelor's degree in Mathematics, Statistics, a relevant technical field, or equivalent

  3. 4+ years of work experience in analytics, data querying languages such as SQL, scripting languages such as Python, and/or statistical mathematical software such as R (minimum of 2 years with a Ph.D.)

  4. 4+ years of experience solving analytical problems using quantitative approaches, understanding ecosystems, user behaviors & long-term product trends, and leading data-driven projects from definition to execution [including defining metrics, experiment, design, communicating actionable insights]

Preferred Qualifications:

Preferred Qualifications:

  1. Master's or Ph.D. Degree in a quantitative field

  2. Demonstrated ability to integrate AI tools to optimize/redesign workflows and drive measurable impact (e.g., efficiency gains, quality improvements)

  3. Experience adhering to and implementing responsible, ethical AI practices (e.g., risk assessment, bias mitigation, quality and accuracy reviews)

  4. Demonstrated ongoing AI skill development (e.g., prompt/context engineering, agent orchestration) and staying current with emerging AI technologies

Public Compensation:

$147,000/year to $208,000/year + bonus + equity + benefits

Industry: Internet

Equal Opportunity:

Meta is proud to be an Equal Employment Opportunity and Affirmative Action employer. We do not discriminate based upon race, religion, color, national origin, sex (including pregnancy, childbirth, or related medical conditions), sexual orientation, gender, gender identity, gender expression, transgender status, sexual stereotypes, age, status as a protected veteran, status as an individual with a disability, or other applicable legally protected characteristics. We also consider qualified applicants with criminal histories, consistent with applicable federal, state and local law. Meta participates in the E-Verify program in certain locations, as required by law. Please note that Meta may leverage artificial intelligence and machine learning technologies in connection with applications for employment.

Meta is committed to providing reasonable accommodations for candidates with disabilities in our recruiting process. If you need any assistance or accommodations due to a disability, please let us know at [email protected].

How this job compares

Set against the 4,798 open Data Scientist jobs on Olive Jobs, counted November 4, 2026.

Pay
  • This posting$147–208K/yr
  • California median$156–235K/yr675 salary ranges
  • US median$136–215K/yr3,679 salary ranges

This range's midpoint, $178K, is 11% below the California median midpoint ($200K) — in the middle half of Data Scientist salary ranges in California.

Openings
Olive Jobs lists 811 open Data Scientist jobs in California and 4,798 across the US. 7% of them nationwide are listed as remote or flexible.
Hiring the most in California
Experience
This posting asks for at least 2 years of experience — less than three in four Data Scientist postings that state a minimum ask for (median 5 years, across 4,109 postings).
Education
2,286 of the 4,798 open Data Scientist jobs (48%) ask for a bachelor's degree or higher.

Counted across the open, public US postings on Olive Jobs on November 4, 2026. Pay medians are the middle values of the low ends and of the high ends of postings that list both ends of a range in the same cadence (a yearly salary or an hourly rate); a range's midpoint is halfway between its ends. Pay and experience figures resting on fewer than 20 postings are left out.

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