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Internal Communications Manager, Instagram
Meta is hiring an Internal Communications Manager to support the Instagram organization, including the Instagram and Threads apps. This role has a global remit and is part of the Internal Communications team. It is an individual contributor position. The Instagram organization within Meta is part of the larger “Family of Apps”, which includes other products like Facebook, Messenger, and WhatsApp. Instagram’s mission is to inspire the creativity that brings people together. In addition to Instagram, this role will also support Threads. Threads, which launched in July 2023, is on track to becoming the leading app for sharing ideas. You will work with the teams that are actively defining, building and growing Instagram and Threads. It’s a very exciting time to be supporting this work. The right candidate will craft internal narratives and strategies that keep Instagram and Threads teams informed, inspired, and connected to their work and to Meta; support the Head of Instagram and the team of leaders behind Instagram and Threads in driving internal communications efforts; lead on various change-related initiatives and projects across these teams; and be an advisor to cross-functional partners, working with them to create, lead, and execute internal communications initiatives. The ideal candidate is a strategic thinker who excels at collaborating with executives, colleagues, and other stakeholders to deliver high-quality work. You must possess strong organizational skills and be capable of managing multiple cross-functional projects and work streams end to end. Strong drafting and editing skills are essential—specifically the ability to communicate complex concepts to diverse audiences in a clear and concise manner. You should have an understanding of internal communications methodologies, particularly change communication, measurement and analysis, as well as remote and in-person event production. You should be passionate about the services Meta provides, the people we serve, and the partners and businesses we support. Additional qualities that will serve you well in this role: attention to detail, an even-keeled attitude, agile approach to project management, aptitude for prioritization, and confidence in taking risks and thinking outside the box.
Internal Communications Manager, Instagram Responsibilities
- Develop and execute communication initiatives in partnership with teams across Instagram and cross-functional partners.
- Provide proactive and reactive messaging that supports key initiatives and program rollouts.
- Understand the unique needs of product teams (priorities, tools, process) in order to produce effective and relevant communication strategies.
- Consult with leadership on their communication priorities and change management initiatives.
- Write and develop messaging around various topics, including organizational and company strategy, priorities, product launches and announcements.
- Identify opportunities to share organization milestones with the company.
- Coordinate with cross-functional teams to implement consistent messaging across the organization.
- Partner closely with other internal and external communications teams as well as Operations, HR, Legal, Finance, DEI, Executive Teams, and others to align on communication opportunities.
- Manage internal forums (Workplace Groups) and internal organization events (All Hands
- Q&As, leadership offsites) which include creating narrative themes, developing executive messaging, and consulting on other speakers’ content.
- Implement and maintain data measurement and analysis strategies to guide communications best practices.
Minimum Qualifications
- Bachelor’s degree in communications, journalism, or public relations.
- 8+ years professional experience working in internal communications, corporate communications, political campaigns, or nonprofit mission-focused communications.
- Minimum 2 years of dedicated internal communications experience.
- Experience counseling and influencing executive leadership.
- Experience producing content for internal audiences at varying levels across an organization.
- Experience writing and turning complex information into relevant, engaging, timely and valuable content.
- Experience with managing multiple projects simultaneously.
- Experience in solving problems using judgment, data measurement, and analysis, providing practical, timely and effective communications guidance and support.
Preferred Qualifications
- Experience in public relations, journalism, branding and campaigns.
- Experience in the technology or advertising industry.
- Experience managing internal communications for a globally distributed and hybrid workforce (remote and in-person).
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Applied Research Scientist, Instagram Core ML (PhD)
Meta is seeking a Research Scientist to join our Instagram Core ML team. This team is an applied research organization focused on improving the quality of IG recommendation models through AI. Advances in AI are key to our mission, spanning some of the most pressing research challenges of our generation across such areas as artificial intelligence, machine learning, and optimization, with a particular focus on recommendation systems, reinforcement learning, generative models, and natural language processing. The ideal candidate will have a solid research background in core ML in at least one of theory, algorithm, and systems, with a keen interest in solving the product problem via customized principled solutions. Research backgrounds in recommendation systems or related research areas such as information retrieval can be a bonus.
Applied Research Scientist, Instagram Core ML (PhD) Responsibilities
- Develop and evaluate scalable specific deep learning models for recommendation systems.
- Develop and evaluate sequence modeling algorithms and systems.
- Solve the product bottleneck problems via customized ML solution.
- Collaborate with scientists on novel research in generative modeling, complex systems, and reinforcement learning.
- Apply knowledge of relevant research domains and coding skills to platform and framework development projects.
- Adapt machine learning and neural network algorithms to best exploit modern parallel environments (e.g. distributed clusters, GPUs, TPUs, etc.).
Minimum Qualifications
- Currently has, or is in the process of obtaining a Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science, Computer Engineering, relevant technical field, or equivalent practical experience. Degree must be completed prior to joining Meta.
- Currently has, or is in the process of obtaining a PhD in the field of Computer Science, Artificial intelligence or equivalent practical experience. Degree must be completed prior to joining Meta.
- Experience developing machine learning algorithms or machine learning infrastructure in Python and PyTorch and Slurm.
- Experience in deep learning: supervised, semi-supervised, self-supervised learning and/or generative modeling.
- Research experience in generative AI (language, image, videos).
- Must obtain work authorization in the country of employment at the time of hire, and maintain ongoing work authorization during employment.
Preferred Qualifications
- Proven track record of achieving significant results as demonstrated by grants, fellowships, patents, as well as publications at leading workshops, journals or conferences such as NeurIPS, ICML, ICLR, KDD/ICDM, RecSys, CVPR/ICCV, etc.
- Demonstrated research and software engineering experience via an internship, work experience, coding competitions, or widely used contributions in open source repositories (e.g. GitHub).
- Research background in Recommendation systems or information retrieval
- Experience working and communicating cross functionally in a team environment.
Experience solving complex problems and comparing alternative solutions, tradeoffs, and diverse points of view to determine a path forward.
Head of Product Marketing – Youth Trust & Safety (Instagram)
We are looking for an experienced marketing leader to serve as the Consumer Product Marketing Lead overseeing Youth Trust & Safety within the Instagram team. This person will lead a team to develop marketing initiatives that drive consumer awareness, engagement, and retention aligned to the product, with a sharp focus on keeping young people safe on our platform. The ideal candidate is a leader who can drive both strategy and execution. They care deeply about Instagram’s commitment to foster a safe and supportive community for everyone. They are analytical and creative, highly collaborative, and will have a successful track record of launching & scaling mass-market consumer products or services. They have demonstrated experience influencing product roadmaps, successfully representing and advocating for the consumer across the product lifecycle, and leading complex cross-functional initiatives in a matrixed organization. Importantly, a successful candidate will have experience managing high-performing teams and developing people alongside products.
Head of Product Marketing – Youth Trust & Safety (Instagram) Responsibilities
- Support a high-performing team of product marketers in setting priorities, ensuring cross-functional support & resources, and unblocking as they navigate work streams across the company
- Tackle complex, highly visible and sensitive issues with a strategic, data-driven mindset. Create thoughtful recommendations and action plans for solving them with product and cross-functional leadership
- Build strong product positioning, clear narratives, and drive influence across the Youth Trust and Safety product organization to ensure we’re delivering consumer value
- Drive go-to-market plans working closely with cross-functional teams to determine effective launch strategy and communications sequencing
- Partner with brand and integrated marketing on outbound marketing and advertising strategies and programs to drive consumer awareness, adoption and long term engagement
Minimum Qualifications
- 12+ years of experience launching & scaling consumer apps, products or services for global consumer brands
- 5+ years of demonstrated people management experience coaching and developing team members
- Experience developing and driving analytically rigorous online and offline marketing campaigns
- Experience motivating and challenging teams and individuals at all levels of an organization, both directly and cross-functionally
- Experience presenting information, recommendations and influencing at the executive level of organizations
Preferred Qualifications
- Experience growing consumer businesses through sustained engagement and acquisition
- International experience and knowledge of diverse cultural, social and business landscapes
- Understanding of digital and mobile video and the entertainment and technology landscape both in the U.S. and internationally
Experience managing other people managers
Data Engineer, Analytics (Technical Leadership)
Every month, billions of people leverage Meta products to connect with friends and loved ones from across the world. On the Data Engineering Team, our mission is to support these products both internally and externally by delivering the best data foundation that drives impact through informed decision making. As a highly collaborative organization, our data engineers work cross-functionally with software engineering, data science, and product management to optimize growth, strategy, and experience for our 3 billion plus users, as well as our internal employee community. We are looking for a technical leader in our Data Engineering team to work closely with Product Managers, Data Scientists and Software Engineers to support building out a great platform for the future of computing. In this role, you will see a direct correlation between your work, company growth, and user satisfaction. You’ll work with some of the brightest minds in the industry, work with one of the richest data sets in the world, use cutting edge technology, and see your efforts affect products and people on a regular basis. The ideal candidate will have strong data infrastructure and data architecture skills as well as experience in areas such as governing company wide data marts, enabling security and privacy data solutions, and full stack experience with analytical technologies. Candidates should also have a proven track record of leading and scaling efforts related to end-to-end analytics systems, strong operational skills to drive efficiency and speed, strong project management leadership, and a strong vision for how data can proactively improve companies. As we continue to expand and create, we have a lot of exciting work ahead of us!
Data Engineer, Analytics (Technical Leadership) Responsibilities
- Proactively drive the vision for data foundation and analytics to accelerate building and improvement of cross platform components across Instagram, and define and execute on plan to achieve that vision.
- Conceptualize and own the data architecture for multiple large-scale projects, while evaluating design and operational cost-benefit tradeoffs within systems.
- Create and contribute to frameworks that improve the efficacy of logging data, while working with data infrastructure to triage issues and resolve.
- Build cross-functional relationships with Data Scientists, Product Managers and Software Engineers to understand data needs and deliver on those needs.
- Define and manage SLA for all data sets in allocated areas of ownership.
- Determine and implement the security model based on privacy requirements, confirm safeguards are followed, address data quality issues, and evolve governance processes within allocated areas of ownership.
- Design, build, and launch collections of sophisticated data models and visualizations that support use cases across different products or domains.
- Solve our most challenging data integrations problems, utilizing optimal ETL patterns, frameworks, query techniques, sourcing from structured and unstructured data sources.
- Assist in owning existing processes running in production, optimizing complex code through advanced algorithmic concepts.
- Optimize pipelines, dashboards, frameworks, and systems to facilitate easier development of data artifacts.
- Influence product and cross-functional teams to identify data opportunities to drive impact.
- Mentor team members by giving/receiving actionable feedback.
Minimum Qualifications
- Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science, Computer Engineering, relevant technical field, or equivalent practical experience.
- 10+ years experience in the data warehouse space.
- 10+ years experience in custom ETL design, implementation and maintenance.
- 10+ years experience with object-oriented programming languages.
- 10+ years experience with schema design and dimensional data modeling.
- 10+ years experience in writing SQL statements.
- Experience analyzing data to identify deliverables, gaps and inconsistencies.
- Experience managing and communicating data warehouse plans to internal clients.
Preferred Qualifications
- BS/BA in Technical Field, Computer Science or Mathematics.
- Experience working with either a MapReduce or an MPP system.
- Knowledge and practical application of Python.
- Experience working autonomously in global teams.
Experience influencing product decisions with data.