Data Science Intern (2027)

About the Position

Figma is growing our team of passionate creatives and builders on a mission to make design accessible to all. Figma’s platform helps teams bring ideas to life-whether you're 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 you're excited to shape the future of design and collaboration, join us!

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.

Responsibilities

• 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 business.
• Design 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.

Requirements

• 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.

We Offer

• Hourly base pay rate: $46 - $46 USD
• Housing stipend and travel reimbursement
• Opportunity to grow and develop your skills

About the Company

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.

We will work to ensure individuals with disabilities are provided reasonable accommodation to apply for a role, participate in the interview process, perform essential job functions, and receive other benefits and privileges of employment. If you require accommodation, please reach out to [email protected].

Application Process

To help candidates focus on the opportunities most relevant to their skills and experience, Figma limits the number and frequency of applications. These limits apply to all roles:

• Candidates may submit up to 5 applications during any rolling 30-day period.
• Candidates may not reapply to the same role while an application is active or within 90 days of receiving a rejection.

Once the applicable days have passed, candidates are welcome to apply again.

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