Product Manager, AI Foundations

Details

Reddit is looking for a senior individual contributor to lead product strategy across ML Platform and ML Understanding. The role focuses on building shared ML and AI capabilities that support consumer products, including model development, evaluation, deployment, content understanding, user representations, discovery, personalization, and other consumer experiences.

Responsibilities

• Define a multiyear vision and prioritized roadmap spanning ML platform capabilities, content understanding, and user understanding.
• Translate needs across recommendations, search, discovery, and emerging AI experiences into clear requirements and investment priorities.
• Guide investments in classification, taxonomies, embeddings, multimodal understanding, and representations of user interests and intent.
• Partner with engineering on data and feature access, training, inference, evaluation, deployment, and monitoring capabilities.
• Establish clear interfaces, onboarding paths, and feedback mechanisms that help application teams use shared AI foundations.
• Align senior partners on sequencing, dependencies, and tradeoffs involving model quality, flexibility, reliability, latency, and cost.
• Measure platform adoption, development velocity, model and representation quality, operational efficiency, and downstream improvements in consumer experiences.

Requirements

• Track record of leading complex ML or AI products, with experience in shared platforms, recommendation systems, search, or related technical domains.
• Strong technical fluency across the ML lifecycle and the ability to engage deeply with engineering and applied science partners on architecture and investment decisions.
• Experience with content understanding, classification, embeddings, or user representations, including an understanding of how their quality affects consumer products.
• Product judgment connecting foundational capabilities to user needs, adoption, and measurable business impact.
• Demonstrated ability to establish direction across multiple teams, resolve competing priorities, and influence senior leaders without direct authority.
• Ability to define strategy in ambiguous spaces while maintaining clear priorities, credible execution plans, and accountability for outcomes.
• Sound judgment regarding evaluation, data quality, privacy, and the responsible use of content and user signals.

Benefits

• Comprehensive healthcare benefits and income replacement programs.
• 401(k) with employer match.
• Global benefit programs covering workspace, professional development, caregiving support, and other needs.
• Family planning support.
• Gender-affirming care.
• Mental health and coaching benefits.
• Flexible vacation and paid volunteer time off.
• Generous paid parental leave.
• Eligibility for equity in the form of restricted stock units and, depending on the position offered, potentially commission.

Compensation

The base salary range is $260,800–$365,100 USD. The role may span more than one career level. Final offer amounts depend on factors including skills, depth of work experience, and relevant licenses or credentials.

Interviews for select roles and locations may be recorded, transcribed, and summarized by AI, with an option to opt out before scheduled interviews. Reddit is an equal opportunity employer and provides reasonable accommodations for qualified individuals with disabilities and disabled veterans.