Matt Boys

Product Manager @ Meta

About

Building teams and products to drive user value through ranking, relevance, and recommender systems using machine learning and artificial intelligence.

Country

United States

City

San Francisco

Industry

Internet

Skill

Strategy, E-commerce, Analytics, Product Management, Mobile Devices, Databases, Mergers & Acquisitions, Product Marketing, Big Data, Marketing, Strategic Partnerships, Ska, Competitive Analysis, Twisted, Blender, Mobile Applications, Analysis, Start-ups, Pants, Show Jumping

Experience

Product Manager

Group Product Manager

Instagram

2023-10 - 2025-4 · 1 yr 7 mos

Stories ranking

Product Manager

Data Science Senior Manager

Facebook

2016-9 - 2022-9 · 6 yrs 1 mo

Menlo Park, California

Senior Manager - FB Reels pillar lead - I led data science (product, ranking, ecosystem) for the #1 strategic priority product within FB app, growing DS team from 1 to 19 ICs & managers - Collaborate with cross-functional "pillar lead" partners (functional leads for FB Reels in eng, PM, design, UXR, etc.) to develop & implement product strategy to grow Reels whilst considering tradeoffs and overall impact to the app - Develop processes to scale the team & product and build capacity in reporting, insights, experimentation, etc. News Feed Relevance (Tech Lead Manager) - Led DS for News Feed Ranking, Stories Ranking, and Notifications growing & supporting 9 DS ICs - Developed significant technical contributions, novel in nature, to improve relevance & quality of FB app across feed & notifications - Developed close relationships with XFN in product, eng, design, uxr, etc. Data Scientist - Led significantly impactful projects across Stories ranking, Stories integrity, News Feed Integrity, and News Feed Experience

Growth

Stripe

2015-6 - 2016-8 · 1 yr 3 mos

San Francisco, CA

I worked on customer acquisition, engagement and retention challenges.

Growth Manager

IFTTT

2013-7 - 2015-6 · 2 yrs

San Francisco, CA

Wore many hats: - Product management: responsible for growth and new user onboarding product experiences - Data science: developed machine learning algorithms to power recommendations - Engineering: built user flows, emails, custom A/B testing framework, search engine integration - Engineering manager: 1 eng direct report - Data engineering: built out and managed datawarehouse, ETL system, analytics tooling, and A/B testing framework - Devops: adept at SSHing into servers and restarting things

MBA Intern

IFTTT

2012-6 - 2012-8 · 3 mos

San Francisco

Worked on growth, monetisation, and analytics at IFTTT (seed-funded at the time)

Business Analyst

Skype

2008-5 - 2011-8 · 3 yrs 4 mos

London, United Kingdom

Two-time recipient of 'Thank You Award' for "outstanding individual contribution to the growth and success of Skype" Worked closely with teams across the company to provide actionable insight from data, including A/B testing, cohort analysis, and revenue cannibalisation impact analysis. Led analytics for various projects including Facebook Video Calling by Skype.