Staff Data Scientist, Consumer

Details

Reddit is a community of communities. It’s built on shared interests, passion, and trust and is home to open and authentic conversations on the internet. Consumer data science at Reddit focuses on understanding how to better connect people to the best information and communities for them. This role supports product strategy by identifying opportunities, conducting exploratory analyses, driving experimentation, and mentoring other data scientists.

Location: US remote-friendly or any office location - San Francisco, Los Angeles, Chicago, New York

Responsibilities

• Help build 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 to evaluate product and business health and implement any ETL development needed for consistent and robust analysis.
• Drive experimentation from design through execution and analysis to maximize learnings and guide investment decisions.
• Build self-serve tools for product and engineering partners to answer common questions and increase data literacy.
• Work cross-functionally with product, engineering, and design teams to ensure insights are incorporated into product work.
• Scale impact across the data organization through mentoring, improving processes, and prioritizing 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, minimum 6+ years industry data science experience; if Ph.D., minimum 4+ years industry data science experience.)
• Expert knowledge of SQL and relational databases.
• Familiarity with statistical analysis and preferred programming languages of the team (R and/or Python).
• Familiarity with causal inference techniques and causal models.
• Demonstrated ability to influence product strategy with data and to take ambiguous problems and solve them in a structured, hypothesis-driven, data-supported way.
• Experience designing and analyzing experiments (A/B testing) and driving experimentation end-to-end.
• Ability to design metrics and implement or coordinate ETL needed for analysis.
• Strong communication skills and experience working with senior leaders and stakeholders; ability to communicate complex topics to technical and non-technical audiences.
• Demonstrated ability to mentor other data scientists and share best practices.
• Entrepreneurial, self-directed, comfortable in fast-paced/innovative environments, and bias toward action.

Benefits

• Comprehensive healthcare benefits and income replacement programs.
• 401(k) match.
• Family planning support and gender-affirming care.
• Mental health and coaching benefits.
• Flexible vacation & Reddit Global Days off.
• Generous paid parental leave.
• Paid volunteer time off.

Pay Transparency

• Base pay range for this position (U.S.): $217,000 - $303,900 USD.
• Role may be eligible for equity (restricted stock units) and other compensation depending on position.

Additional Notes

• #LI-Remote
• Interviews for select roles may be recorded and transcribed; candidates may opt out prior to scheduling.
• Reddit is an equal opportunity employer and provides accommodations for qualified individuals with disabilities.