Data Scientist Internship, Figma

2025

Salary not provided

$44.71 - $44.71 USD per hour

SQL
Python
R
New York
San Francisco Bay Area

1-3 days a week in office

Figma

Design platform for product teams

Open for applications

Figma

Design platform for product teams

1001+ employees

B2BEnterpriseInternal toolsDesignSaaSProduct Management

Open for applications

Salary not provided

$44.71 - $44.71 USD per hour

SQL
Python
R
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.

Role

Who you are

  • 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
  • We seek data scientists with strong coding and statistics fundamentals and who are excellent communicators among technical and non-technical audiences
  • 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 achieved a valuation exceeding $10 billion in 2021, boosted by a trend towards remote work. Its acquistion by Adobe for twice that amount just a year later raised eyebrows, but is a testament to the huge potential of this company and its product.

Thousands of industry-leading companies such as AirBnB, Dropbox, GitHub and Microsoft use Figma to scale their design efforts easily across distributed teams. Adobe has committed to leaving Figma autonomous going forward, and Figma will benefit from Adobe's digital imaging and AI tech in its product development.

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Insights

Top investors

Few candidates hear
back within 2 weeks

97% employee growth in 12 months

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 values

  • Build community
  • Run with it
  • Love your craft
  • Grow as you go

Company HQ

Union Square, San Francisco, CA

Leadership

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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