Role Description & Responsibilities
Data Science
About Figma
Figma is a high-growth technology leader building scalable solutions for global users. Millions of companies and teams rely on their infrastructure and services to execute high-value workflows, analyze massive datasets, and scale modern operations.
CadetX Candidate Advantage: As an applicant for this Data Science role, you are evaluated on practical proficiency with real-world query execution, data pipelines, and clear stakeholder communication.
CadetX Role Brief & Company Specifications
Role Mission & Impact
Figma’s 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, you'll work on technical challenges that have real impact on our product and business, and we're 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.
Key Responsibilities & Day-to-Day Scope
- ✓ Own a scoped project end to end—from framing the question with Product, Engineering, Design, and Data Science partners through delivering the work—with 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 changes.Build 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
- ✓ 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 Figma’s Data Science team solves recurring problems.
Official Qualifications & Technical Requirements
- • 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
- • 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.
Preferred Skills & Technology Stack
- + Familiarity with distributed compute frameworks (Apache Spark, Databricks).
- + Experience with experiment tracking tools (MLflow, Weights & Biases) and containerization (Docker).
- + Personal GitHub repository or competition profile (Kaggle) demonstrating practical data science projects.
Tech Stack & Tools in this role
Expected technical competencies for Day 1 productivity:
★ Life & Culture at Figma
Verified EmployerFigma champions rigorous analytical discipline, continuous learning, and low-ego teamwork. Team members enjoy flexible hybrid allowances, learning stipends, and structured mentorship to fast-track career mobility.