Data Scientist Intern, Figma

Salary not provided

Hourly base pay rate is $44.71 USD

SQL

Python

Figma

New York

San Francisco Bay Area

1-3 days a week in office

Design platform for product teams

Job no longer available

Design platform for product teams

1001+ employees

B2BEnterpriseInternal toolsDesignSaaSProduct Management

Job no longer available

Salary not provided

Hourly base pay rate is $44.71 USD

SQL

Python

Figma

New York

San Francisco Bay Area

1-3 days a week in office

1001+ employees

B2BEnterpriseInternal toolsDesignSaaSProduct Management

Company mission

Figma's mission is to help teams create, share, test, and ship better designs from start to finish.

Job

Company

Role

Who you are

We seek data scientists with strong coding and statistics fundamentals and who are excellent communicators among technical and non-technical audiences
A strong baseline in statistics, Computer Science, Mathematics, Economics or other quantitative field
Proficiency with basic SQL
Experience with R, Python, or similar scripting language
Firm knowledge around statistical methods and models
A self-starting approach along with strong communication and collaboration skills
Research experience in the natural sciences, social sciences, or behavioral sciences
Experience working with creative tools

What the job involves

The Data Science team at Figma partners directly with our product and engineering teams to uncover insights, influence decision making, and apply a data lens to business problems critical to Figma’s growth
Our work is diverse and evolving
As an intern on our team, you will have an opportunity to apply your skills on technical challenges that will have a real impact on our business and product
Collaborate with cross-functional teams including Product, Engineering, Research, Design, Sales, and Marketing to turn business questions into data problems
Evaluate experiments to measure the impact of product changes
Define and surface metrics to guide decision making
Build models to understand user behavior and predict growth
Some projects you could work on:
Evaluation of different online experimentation methodologies and how they may improve velocity and accuracy of A/B tests at Figma
Investigating user behaviors and running experiments to drive improvements on a brand new product offering
Recommend opportunities for growth and optimization of our core product through researching KPIs and/or areas of the business funnel

Our take

Figma is a web-based design platform that helps cross-functional teams of designers, project managers, and developers easily collaborate on product design projects. Its standout feature, Multiplayer mode, is like Google Docs for design, letting team members collaborate in real-time on project files that are hosted in the cloud.

Founded in 2012, Figma quickly established itself among its competitors in the sector and, in 2024, achieved a valuation of $12.5 billion after a large funding round backed by the likes of General Catalyst and Andreessen Horowitz. However, its recent focus on AI tools has had mixed results; Figma's Make Design tool, which generates apps using AI, was taken off the market soon after launch.

Nevertheless, thousands of industry-leading companies such as Airbnb, Dropbox, GitHub and Microsoft use Figma to scale their design efforts easily across distributed teams. A 2025 IPO is on the cards too, and Figma has the customer base and market trust to pull it off.

Kirsty

Company Specialist at Welcome to the Jungle

Insights

Top investors

97% employee growth in 12 months

Glassdoor (4.4)

Trustpilot (2.6)

Company

Funding (last 2 of 8 rounds)

May 2024

$415.7m

SERIES F

Jan 2022

$0.5m

SERIES E

Total funding: $749.1m

Company benefits

Equity
Health, Dental, & Vision
Retirement with company contribution
Parental leave & fertility support
Mental health and wellness benefits
Generous PTO
Company recharge days
Learning & development stipend
Work from home stipend
Cell phone reimbursement

Company HQ

Union Square, San Francisco, CA

Leadership

Dylan Field

(CEO)

Previous Research Assistant at Microsoft for 1 year. Spent 2.5 years at Brown University pursuing a CS/Math degree, dropping out with the support of the Thiel Fellowship, when he earnt a grant of $100,000 to pursue entrepreneurial projects.

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