At Instagram Research, our purpose is to advocate for people through high-quality, empathy-driven research to shape product experiences and business decisions. UX researchers here tackle some of the most complex business questions in order to assess current strategy and inform future app strategy and product roadmaps, working closely with engineers, product managers, designers and data scientists. The decisions made based on their research impact the daily experiences of billions of people on a global scale. To achieve this, we must employ the full range of qualitative and quantitative methods delivered at scale and with the highest level of rigor. We value a diverse range of perspectives and stem from many different backgrounds— geographically, culturally, educationally, philosophically. At Instagram Research, our principles are:1. Deeply understand people: We lead with empathy, equity, and inclusion to elevate people and uncover their latent needs, attitudes, and desires.2. Ask the “why” behind the “what”: We look ahead and around corners to challenge assumptions and proactively identify the unknown unknowns.3. Uphold quality and rigor: We use optimal, varied research methods to answer the highest priority questions. 4. Drive impact from insights: We don’t just deliver high-quality insights; we care deeply about improving everyone’s experiences.We are looking for an experienced research leader with seasoned research, communication and people management skills. The successful candidate has a proven track record of translating research into design and product decisions. It’s not enough to answer interesting questions about user behavior; our team focuses on impact. You will oversee a team of world-class researchers across multiple research disciplines.The successful candidate must be an expert research leader who can generate and socialize insights that impact the strategy and product roadmaps of complex and diverse products. The role also requires a proven track record of building and managing high-performing teams, preferably with researchers of different disciplines. Candidates must be able to articulate the vision of the team to cross-functional partners and be a strong advocate for the role of research in product development.This particular role will have an emphasis on defining the future of entertainment for consumers through ecosystems that provide incentives, insights, and capabilities for Creators to craft it through the future of creative expression.

Director of Research @ Instagram: Public Sharing Responsibilities:

• Develops and provides strategy, vision, and direction to team managers and individual contributors
• Influences goals and strategies across the company focused on productivity and value delivery
• Contributes to community through sponsoring and championing organizational efforts to build and sustain diversity, culture, recruitment, onboarding, mentoring, and/or development programs
• Forms internal partnerships, influences, resolves conflict, builds alignment, negotiates critical matters, and works effectively across teams to execute the strategy
• Recognized as an influential leader and provides leadership and direction for the organization
• Considers factors beyond their immediate team to innovate, take appropriate risks, and balance short, medium, and long-term needs
• Influences and drives strategies that enable scale and alignment across multiple teams
• Designs and cascades strategic communications to inform and influence across and outside of the company
• Operate as a product, organizational, and research leader who manages the UXR function within this organization, identifying ways to elevate and up level Research throughout in strengthening the business.
• Identify gaps and solutions for future growth and scale within the org, including system, product, function, partnership, culture and/or organization opportunities
• Proactively addresses the largest problems impacting their team’s execution and makes decisions to resolve issues and enhance efficiency including risk mitigation and contingency plans
• Builds the org and bench with the diversity, skills mix, and capability required to deliver the priorities of the business
• Responsible for the quality of the team, including coaching, growing ICs and managers and addressing under-performance
• Developing a cohesive and strong leadership team of managers
• Be a role model for inclusive behaviors and build a diverse organization that values, respects and taps into different backgrounds and perspectives
• Makes the company better through engaging in cross-company efforts like recruiting, cross-functional partnerships, diversity & inclusion, or site initiatives
• Actively recruit and close top tier talent to fill strategic open positions for both IC and management roles beyond your immediate organization
• Identify relevant metrics and track trends to report progress relative to goals. (E.g., team health, research impact, product goals)

Minimum Qualifications:

• Bachelor’s degree or significant experience conducting UX research with meaningful business impact
• 18+ years of experience conducting research post-Bachelor’s degree
• 8+ years directly managing, coaching and developing full-time researchers
• 5+ years experience managing managers
• Experience directly conducting primary research (either qualitative or quantitative) end-to-end (i.e., designing, fielding, analyzing and reporting out data)
• Experience building teams over time through hiring, growing, and retaining high-performing researchers
• Experience building and setting research strategy that connects with business strategy
• Track record of translating research into business impact
• Experience working with a variety of cross-functional peers and stakeholders (e.g., product managers, data scientists, designers, engineers, policy, communications, marketing)

Preferred Qualifications:

• Experience with consumer products, consumer insights, or product development
• 5+ years of UX research experience
• Experience with startup environments or new app development

About Meta:

Meta builds technologies that help people connect, find communities, and grow businesses. When Facebook launched in 2004, it changed the way people connect. Apps like Messenger, Instagram and WhatsApp further empowered billions around the world. Now, Meta is moving beyond 2D screens toward immersive experiences like augmented and virtual reality to help build the next evolution in social technology. People who choose to build their careers by building with us at Meta help shape a future that will take us beyond what digital connection makes possible today—beyond the constraints of screens, the limits of distance, and even the rules of physics.

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 accommodations-ext@fb.com.

$239,000/year to $308,000/year + bonus + equity + benefits

Individual compensation is determined by skills, qualifications, experience, and location. Compensation details listed in this posting reflect the base hourly rate, monthly rate, or annual salary only, and do not include bonus, equity or sales incentives, if applicable. In addition to base compensation, Meta offers benefits. Learn more about benefits at Meta.

HR Business Partner, Instagram

About the job

Instagram is seeking an HR Business Partner to support our VP of Analytics organization across Instagram. The ideal candidate will contribute at both hands-on and strategic levels to cultivate an amazing and innovative culture. The ideal candidate will bring creative and effective ideas and solutions to a growing organization.

HR Business Partner, Instagram Responsibilities:

• Design and deliver targeted solutions with a high degree of focus on scale and growth, including strategic planning, visioning, talent assessment, change management and team building
• Provide strategic business partnership, thought partnership, and coaching to all levels of the organization
• Proactively assess team, manager, organizational development needs, make recommendations, and implement appropriate solutions
• Provide rigorous data analysis and reporting solutions based on business needs
• Drive talent management strategies to support a team’s growth and individual development plans
• Manage and facilitate the overall Performance Summary Cycle and employee engagement survey throughout the year
• Integrate and partner with HR colleagues in the Recruiting, Learning & Development, Compensation, Legal, and HR Programs teams to implement solutions and help scale the business
• Partner closely with regional HR partners on global strategy and execution
• Work closely with our Employee Relations Partners, supporting employee relations issues as needed

Minimum Qualifications:

• 8+ years experience in an HR Business Partner or equivalent role
• Demonstrates solid judgment and experience assessing risk relative to the business
• Effective communication and critical thinking skills
• Demonstrates project management and change management experience
• Demonstrated experience learning and thriving in a constantly changing environment and to cultivate relationships across teams
• Experience using data to identify insights that drive action
• Experience helping global and/or matrixed organizations scale
• Demonstrated experience in influencing and strategically solve problems
• Consulting, coaching and facilitation skills
• Experience supporting Technical teams

Preferred Qualifications:

• BA/BS degree

Data Science Director, Instagram Sharing

We’re looking for Instagram’s Data Science lead for the Sharing Product Group, which is responsible for Instagram Stories, Direct messaging, Notes, broadcast sharing products like Feed and Reels creation, and overseeing the app’s rich creator ecosystem. The Director of Data Science is directly responsible for managing the data science team to ensure proper goaling, experimentation, and forecasting and to develop insights that identify the biggest opportunities for the Instagram community and drive overall group strategy. Additionally, this leader is responsible for leadership development with Sharing analytics to ensure the org has capacity to further scale. This leader will serve on Instagram’s core analytics leadership circle to help improve cross-Instagram Analytics team processes such as recruiting, training, and performance management, and will work closely with leadership across the app. You will enjoy working with one of the richest data sets in the world, cutting edge technology, and the ability to see your insights turned into real products on a regular basis. The perfect candidate will have strong consumer product intuition, experience building and managing analytics teams, will have worked with large data stores, and experience building software. You are scrappy, focused on results, a self-starter, and have demonstrated success in using analytics to drive the understanding, progression, and user engagement of a product.

Data Science Director, Instagram Sharing Responsibilities

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

• Inspire, lead and grow a team of data scientists.

• Apply your expertise in quantitative analysis, data mining, and the presentation of data in developing data-informed strategies for growing and improving our product offerings.

• Partner with, and influence through data, other teams across the Facebook Family of Apps (Facebook, Instagram, WhatsApp, Messenger).

Minimum Qualifications

• 10+ years of work experience managing analytics teams, working collaboratively with Product, Engineering and cross-functional partners, and guiding data-influenced product planning, prioritization and strategy development.

• Demonstrated experience in hiring, retaining and scaling diverse, geographically dispersed, high-performing teams.

• Proven experience influencing product strategy and drive change across org boundaries through clear and compelling communication of data-driven insights and analyses.

Intellectual curiosity and drive experience, decisiveness, ambiguity and complexity, bias towards action.

Data Engineer, Analytics (Technical Leadership)

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.