Senior Staff Data Scientist, Consumer Relevance
Remote - United States · Staff+ · Contract
Sponsorship not specified$233k-$326kDetected 12 hours ago
PythonSQLMachine LearningData ScienceStatisticsA/B TestingProduct StrategyAccountingResearchExperimental DesignLeadershipCommunicationMentoring
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Lottery odds (Level IV)94
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About the role
- With 100,000+ active communities and approximately 130 million daily active unique visitors, Reddit is one of the internet's largest sources of information.
Responsibilities
- Design and analyze experiments for relevance features, accounting for challenges unique to networked platforms such as spillover effects between communities, interference between contributors and consumers, and long-run impacts of ranking changes on content supply
- Partner deeply with ML engineers and product teams to translate model performance metrics into user-facing impact
- Deep expertise in metrics design and evaluation for ranking and recommendation systems, including offline metrics and counterfactual evaluation
- Strong theoretical grounding in experimental design, including power analysis, variance reduction techniques, and sequential testing as applied to relevance experiments
- Experience mentoring data scientists and building organizational capability in relevance evaluation and experimentation
- Family Planning Support
Requirements
- or M.S. with equivalent depth of expertise
- For M.S. holders: 12+ years of industry experience in applied science, data science, or relevance/ranking-focused roles
- For Ph.D. holders: 8+ years of industry experience in applied science, data science, or relevance/ranking-focused roles
- Experience defining and validating quality metrics for content ranking, search, or recommendations at scale
- Expert knowledge of SQL and proficiency in R and/or Python for statistical computing
- Demonstrated ability to influence product and organizational strategy through data-driven insights about content quality and user experience
- Excellent communication skills with the ability to explain nuanced statistical and ML concepts and tradeoffs to both technical and non-technical senior stakeholders
Nice to have
- Published research or industry contributions in areas recommendation systems or causal inference for ranking
- Experience with social network or user-generated content platforms where community-level dynamics create non-trivial relevance and experimentation challenges
Skills
- 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.
- For more information, visit www.redditinc.com.
- Reddit is poised to rapidly innovate and grow like no other time in its history.
- This is a unique opportunity to leave your mark on one of the most influential and trafficked corners of the internet.
- Reddit's relevance challenges are uniquely complex.
Compensation
- In addition to base salary, this job is eligible to receive equity in the form of restricted stock units, and depending on the position offered, it may also be eligible to receive a commission.
- To provide greater transparency to candidates, we share base salary ranges for all US-based job postings regardless of state.
- We set standard base pay ranges for all roles based on function, level, and country location, benchmarked against similar stage growth companies.
Benefits
- Comprehensive Healthcare Benefits and Income Replacement Programs
- Global Benefit programs that fit your lifestyle, from workspace to professional development to caregiving support
- Mental Health & Coaching Benefits
- Flexible Vacation & Paid Volunteer Time Off
- Generous Paid Parental Leave
- In addition to base salary, this job is eligible to receive equity in the form of restricted stock units, and depending on the position offered, it may also be eligible to receive a commission.
- Additionally, Reddit offers a wide range of benefits to U.S.-based employees, including medical, dental, and vision insurance, 401(k) program with employer match, generous time off for vacation, and parental leave.
Equal opportunity
- Reddit is proud to be an equal opportunity employer, and is committed to building a workforce representative of the diverse communities we serve.
- If, due to a disability, you need an accommodation during the interview process, please let your recruiter know.
Visa & Work Authorization
- You will have the opportunity to opt out of recording, transcription and summarization prior to any scheduled interviews.
This listing is sourced directly from Reddit's careers page and normalized into a canonical job model.