Business Data Scientist - Early Career (2024)

The Business Data Science team at Figma collaborates closely with the sales, marketing, and finance departments to extract actionable insights, guide decision-making processes, and apply a data-driven approach to pivotal business challenges crucial for Figma’s expansion. The role entails engaging with a diverse and dynamic set of tasks. As a team member, you will tackle various technical challenges spanning data engineering, analytics, experimentation, and machine learning. We are actively seeking data scientists with a solid foundation in coding and statistics, demonstrating proficiency in effective communication across both technical and non-technical stakeholders.

This full-time role is available at one of our US hubs. 

What you'll do at Figma:

• Engage proactively with Sales, Marketing, Finance, and Engineering teams to translate business inquiries into well-defined data problems, fostering cross-functional collaboration
• Evaluate experiments to measure the impact of new initiatives
• Define and present key metrics essential for informed decision-making, ensuring a clear and actionable data-driven framework
• Communicate and document data logging processes and requirements, ensuring transparent and standardized practices within the team
• Develop models aimed at comprehending user behavior and predicting growth patterns, contributing to data-driven strategies for business expansion
• Offer constructive and thoughtful feedback to team members, fostering a collaborative environment that encourages continuous improvement

We’d love to hear from you if you have:

• Solid foundational knowledge in Statistics, Computer Science, Mathematics, Economics, or a related quantitative field
• Demonstrated proficiency in R, Python, or a comparable scripting language
• Robust understanding of statistical methods and models
• Demonstrated self-starting initiative combined with strong communication and collaboration skills

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.

Read more about our team

• Inside Figma: my time as a new grad
• Inside Figma: a Q&A with our 2021 interns and new grads
• Investing in Figma: The Decade of Design
• Figma's next product is a multiplayer whiteboard called FigJam

We will work to ensure individuals with disabilities are provided reasonable accommodation to participate in the interview process, to perform essential job functions, and to receive other benefits and privileges of employment. Please let your recruiter know if you require accommodation.

#LI-DNI