Manager, Data Science - Sales

We're looking for experienced leaders to join our data science org who are excited about the challenges that come with rapid growth, and passionate about connecting people together through a positive and inclusive culture. As the Data Science Manager on our team, you'll work closely with stakeholders as well as leaders, and the broader data science team to deliver strategic insights and build data products that will optimize our go-to-market activity. These positions function more like a tech lead role, where you'll oversee a small team while also remaining actively hands-on.

This is a full time role that can be held from one of our US hubs or remotely in the United States.

We are seeking an experienced Data Science Manager to join and lead the Sales Data Science Team. In this role, you will be responsible for delivering customer focused insights, building the infrastructure and tooling to scale data access across a rapidly growing sales team, and deploy advanced models to improve our targeting and efficiency. The ideal candidate will have a strong track record of executing analytical projects, creating compelling data stories and visualizations, and communicating across diverse technical and non-technical audiences.

What you'll do at Figma:

• Take a hands-on approach to tackle a subset of problems and provide detailed analysis.
• Manage, support and grow a diverse team of data scientists who own all aspects of data within the Sales organizations
• Partner with Sales leadership to set strategy, priorities, and mission for teams and projects
• Develop and refine more advanced statistical modelling around lead scoring, cross-sell modelling, and uplift modelling.
• Foster a data driven culture by elevating metrics reporting and understanding
• Establish trust within and across teams by creating accountability and a positive work environment in partnership with other leaders in the organization
• Establish a vision for the team.

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

• 5+ years of experience collaborating with sales teams, building models and conducting strategic analysis to fuel growth
• 2+ years of experience managing high output business oriented sales data science teams
• Proven track record of influencing functions and shipping high-quality data products that support organizational objectives
• Firm knowledge around statistical methods, including lead scoring, experimentation, and attribution modeling
• Proficiency in leveraging data and metrics to guide business decisions

While not required, it's an added plus if you also have:

• A desire to build an inclusive and diverse culture
• Experience scaling teams in high growth environment

Read more about our team:

• https://www.figma.com/blog/cross-functional-data-science-user-research-figma/
• https://www.figma.com/blog/how-we-use-data/
• https://www.figma.com/blog/from-experiment-to-launch-how-data-shaped-a-new-comments-experience/

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.