Christopher Smith

Data Science at Instagram

New York, New York, United States

About

Experience

  • Instagram (4 yrs 6 mos)
    • Senior Data Science Manager
      Feb 2026 - Present · 5 mos

      I lead the Growth Data science org on Threads, Meta's public conversations app. Our Growth team builds the UI and ranking systems for all of our major growth levers, including Notifications, Social Graph, New User Experience, Acquisition/Conversion, Organic Growth levers, Cross-App Growth integrations and Ecosystems.

    • Data Science Manager
      Jan 2025 - Feb 2026 · 1 yr 2 mos

      Threads Growth & Search Relevance

    • Data Scientist
      Jan 2022 - Jan 2025 · 3 yrs 1 mo

      Staff Data Scientist supporting ML products to help grow Threads. 2024-2025: Threads Growth Relevance/Ranking. 2022-2024: Instagram Private Sharing

  • Cornerstone Research (2 yrs 4 mos)
    • Senior Analyst
      Aug 2021 - Nov 2021 · 4 mos

    • Analyst
      Aug 2019 - Jul 2021 · 2 yrs

  • Research Analyst Intern at The Brattle Group
    Jun 2018 - Aug 2018 · 3 mos