Data Science Intern (2027)

Figma is growing our team of passionate creatives and builders on a mission to make design accessible to all. Figmas platform helps teams bring ideas to lifewhether youre brainstorming creating a prototype translating designs into code or iterating with AI. From idea to product Figma empowers teams to streamline workflows move faster and work together in real time from anywhere in the world. If youre excited to shape the future of design and collaboration join us!

Figmas Data Science team partners across product engineering design marketing sales and operations to help Figma make better decisions with data. As an intern on our team youll work on technical challenges that have real impact on our product and business and were looking for interns with strong foundations in coding and statistics and who are clear communicators with both technical and non-technical audiences.

This internship will be based out of our San Francisco or New York Hub.

What youll do at Figma:

• Own a scoped project end to endfrom framing the question with Product Engineering Design and Data Science partners through delivering the workwith support from a manager and mentor.
• Analyze user behavior product performance or business data to uncover insights and translate them into recommendations for businessDesign and evaluate experiments and develop metrics that help teams understand the impact of product models to understand user behavior and predict growth
• Build and improve data pipelines and tools that make product data more scalable and accessible
• Focus areas may include analytics experimentation or infrastructure - based on your interests and business needs

Some projects you could work on:

• Analyze how people adopt and use a new or existing Figma product experience define meaningful success metrics and turn patterns in engagement and retention into product recommendations.
• Build and validate a new analytical method or tool that expands how Figmas Data Science team solves recurring problems.
• Study marketing or customer-journey data to identify drivers of acquisition conversion or retention.
• Develop and evaluate forecasts or models that help teams anticipate user or business trends and plan more effectively

Wed love to hear from you if you have:

• Experience using SQL and a scripting language such as Python or R to clean explore and analyze data through research projects or prior work.
• A solid foundation in statistics and quantitative reasoning with exposure to areas such as experimentation forecasting statistical modeling causal inference or data modeling.
• The ability to structure open-ended questions validate your analysis and connect findings to product or business decisions.
• Curiosity initiative and strong communication and collaboration skills with both technical and non-technical partners.

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 youre excited about this role but your past experience doesnt 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.

At Figma we celebrate and support our differences. We know employing a team rich in diverse thoughts experiences and opinions allows our employees our product and our community to flourish. Figma is an equal opportunity workplace - we are dedicated to equal employment opportunities regardless of race color ancestry religion sex national origin sexual orientation age citizenship marital status disability gender identity/expression veteran status or any other characteristic protected by law. We also consider qualified applicants regardless of criminal histories consistent with legal requirements.

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Examples of accommodations include but are not limited to:

• Holding interviews in an accessible location
• Enabling closed captioning on video conferencing
• Ensuring all written communication be compatible with screen readers
• Changing the mode or format of interviews

To ensure the integrity of our hiring process and facilitate a more personal connection we require all candidates keep their cameras on during video interviews. Additionally if hired you will be required to attend in person onboarding.

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