
Meta's Messenger team has completed 10 weeks of mixed-methods research on teen and young adult communication behaviors across the US, Brazil, and India. The research covers message composition, privacy expectations, and reactions to AI-assisted features in Messenger, and leadership wants the findings translated into product decisions before Q4 planning closes.
You are the User Experience Researcher responsible for hosting a cross-functional synthesis workshop with a 12-person core team: 2 PMs, 1 content designer, 1 product designer, 4 engineers, 1 data scientist, 1 policy lead, 1 marketing lead, and 1 research manager. The workshop must align stakeholders on the most important insights, unresolved questions, and near-term product implications for Messenger.
The PM for Messaging Growth wants clear recommendations that can feed directly into the roadmap. The policy lead is concerned that some findings around teen privacy and AI suggestions may require additional review before any launch decisions. Engineering wants prioritized, actionable outputs rather than broad themes, while the research manager expects methodological rigor and traceability back to the original studies.
You have 15 calendar days before Q4 planning lock, a budget of $8,000 for workshop support and participant incentives, and no additional headcount. Stakeholders are split across Menlo Park, New York, and London, so the workshop must work in a hybrid format. Only one 3-hour live workshop block is available, and pre-reads historically have less than 60% completion.