Data Science Director, Messenger - Remote Presence

About the Role

Remote Presence is a team at Facebook that is building technologies to connect people in real time via audio/video calling and Live video/audio broadcasting in Messenger, Instagram, Facebook, WhatsApp, and hardware devices (Oculus, Portal, glasses). Real-time communication business has been experiencing unprecedented explosive growth since the COVID pandemic started. It is one the most scaled consumer businesses at Facebook Inc. with billions of users relying on it, and by far the largest real time communications business in the world compared to other apps and telcos. Remote Presence is on a short list of company top priority areas. We are rapidly scaling investment into this domain to meet new demands on existing platforms and are building new real-time experiences that will become core components for the Metaverse effort and new AR/VR devices.

We are looking for a Data Science leader who has experience in:

• Setting up a world class data science team of managers and individual contributors.
• Partnering with engineering and PM leaders to build strategy, execute roadmaps for a large organization, and communicate to the highest level of the company leadership.
• Contributing to building a platform that delivers the best in class audio and video quality on all classes of devices from low end Android phones and Windows PC to custom build hardware and advances the state of the art of real-time communications with AR/VR powered experiences of tomorrow.

Responsibilities

• Building and Managing Data Science teams through managers of managers.
• Maintain a high bar in terms of product thinking and analytical depth for your team through selective hiring and mentorship.
• Support and grow other data science managers and ICs.
• Technical background and ability to dive into details of technologies built by Engineering and Data Science teams.
• Lead cross-functional and cross-team relationship building and collaboration with product and engineering teams.

Requirements

• 7+ years experience managing a team of analysts, data scientists.
• 7+ years of experience doing quantitative analysis.
• 7+ years of work experience managing analytics teams, working collaboratively with Engineering and cross-functional partners, and guiding data-influenced product planning, prioritization and strategy development.
• Experience in cross-functional partnership among teams of Engineering, Design, PM, Data Engineering.
• Experience initiating and driving projects to completion autonomously.