Careers at Facebook

Design & User Experience

Quantitative UX Researcher, University Grad

LocationMenlo Park, CA
Facebook was built to help people connect and share, and over the last decade our tools have played a critical part in changing how people around the world communicate with one another. With over a billion people using the service and more than fifty offices around the globe, a career at Facebook offers countless ways to make an impact in a fast growing organization.
Come join a diverse and collaborative team of researchers who work directly with product design to make the best social platform for Facebook's billion users. Our work ranges from formative to evaluative, ethnography to live experiments and involves collaboration between qualitative and quantitative researchers. For this position, we are looking for people with strong skills in behavioral data analysis, experimental and survey research, and statistics. The right candidates will be excellent communicators, knowledgeable about UI design, passionate about social computing, comfortable in a flat, fast moving organization, excited to collaborate, and focused squarely impacting the design of Facebook.

Responsibilities

  • Work closely with product teams to identify research topics
  • Design studies that address both user behavior and attitudes
  • Generate insights that both fuel ideation and evaluate designs
  • Conduct research using a wide variety of quantitative methods, and interpret analysis through the lens of UX, HCI, and social science
  • Collaborate closely with qualitative researchers
  • Work cross-functionally with design, product management, content strategy, engineering and marketing
  • Partner with engineers, analysts, and other technical roles to create and share research
  • Communicate results and illustrate suggestions in compelling and creative ways

Requirements

  • MS or PhD in a human behavior related field preferred (HCI, Psychology, Social Science, Information Science, etc.)
  • Experience in applied product research
  • Experience working with large scale data in multi-method studies
  • Experience with applied statistics
  • Experience coding, PHP, SQL and Python preferred
  • Familiarity with survey design and response effects
  • Understanding and appreciation of qualitative and user-centered design methods
  • Ability to ask, as well as answer, meaningful and impactful questions
  • Ability to communicate complex analysis and results compellingly to a lay audience
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