Staff Data Scientist, Consumer

Details

Reddit is a community of communities. It’s built on shared interests, passion, and trust, and is home to the most open and authentic conversations on the internet. Every day, Reddit users submit, vote, and comment on the topics they care most about. With 100,000+ active communities and approximately 101M+ daily active unique visitors, Reddit is one of the internet’s largest sources of information.

Consumer data science plays a key role in fulfilling Reddit’s mission of bringing community & belonging to the world through deep understanding of how we can better connect people to the best information and communities for them - the heart of Reddit’s product - from crypto to support groups, gaming to AMAs, travel tips to memes.

As a Staff Data Scientist on the team, you will play an influential role in guiding product strategy through proactively identifying opportunities, conducting exploratory analyses and sharing insights, and driving learning through experimentation.

Responsibilities

• Help build the long term product strategy by identifying opportunities to attract new users, increase engagement, and drive retention.
• Influence strategic roadmaps through data-driven insights into user behaviors and needs.
• Design metrics that help evaluate the health of the business and the success of our products, including any ETL development needed for consistent and robust analysis.
• Drive experimentation from design through execution and analysis to maximize learnings and guide future investment decisions.
• Build self-serve tools for product and engineering partners that answer common questions and/or increase data literacy in the organization.
• Work cross-functionally with product, engineering, and design teams to ensure insights make it to the product.
• Scale your work to other parts of the data organization through mentoring more junior data scientists, improving processes, and providing perspective on the most important problems.

Requirements

• Ph.D., M.S. or Bachelors degree in Statistics, Machine Learning, Economics, Computer Science, or other quantitative fields (If M.S. or Bachelors degree, a minimum of 6+ years of industry data science experience required; If Ph.D. degree, a minimum of 4+ years of industry data science experience required).
• Expert knowledge of SQL and relational databases.
• Familiarity with statistical analysis and the preferred programming languages of the team (R / Python).
• Demonstrated ability to influence and guide product strategy with data.
• Demonstrated ability to take ambiguous problems and solve them in a structured, hypothesis-driven, data-supported way.
• Familiarity with causal inference techniques and causal models.
• Excellent communication and experience working with senior leaders / stakeholders.
• Entrepreneurial, self-directed, and enthusiastic about solving problems.
• Demonstrated ability to mentor other data scientists and share best practices to elevate the data science practice at Reddit.
• Conform in innovative and fast-paced environments, and have a bias toward action.
• Can discuss complex topics with technical and non-technical audiences.

Benefits

• Comprehensive Healthcare Benefits and Income Replacement Programs.
• 401k Match.
• Family Planning Support.
• Gender-Affirming Care.
• Mental Health & Coaching Benefits.
• Flexible Vacation & Reddit Global Days off.
• Generous paid Parental Leave.
• Paid Volunteer time off.