Data Scientist - Intern (2025)
New York, NY
Internship
Hybrid
$44.71/hr - $44.71/hr
New Grad Level
Figma is a design platform that develops web applications for interface design with offline features. The Data Science team at Figma partners with product and engineering teams to uncover insights and influence decision-making, providing interns with opportunities to tackle technical challenges that impact the business and product.
Responsibilities
- 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
- 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
Qualification
Required
- 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
Preferred
- Research experience in the natural sciences, social sciences, or behavioral sciences
- Experience working with creative tools
Benefits
- Housing stipend
- Travel reimbursement