Reddit is hiring a
Staff Data Scientist

Summary

The job is for a Staff Data Scientist at Reddit's Ads Data Science Team. The role involves improving experimentation capabilities and decision-making within the ads organization. The position requires relevant experience, a Ph.D., M.S., or Bachelors degree in quantitative fields, deep understanding of online experimentation and causal inference, fluency with statistical analysis, programming languages, and querying relational databases, comfort in innovative environments, strong technical communication skills, ability to tackle ambiguous problems, and a desire to mentor other data scientists. Benefits include comprehensive health benefits, 401k matching, workspace benefits for home office, personal & professional development funds, family planning support, flexible vacation, paid parental leave, paid volunteer time off, and equity in the form of restricted stock units.

Requirements

• Relevant experiences in quantitative or data science roles, preferably for a consumer-facing service/app, ads monetization, safety etc
• Ph.D., M.S. or Bachelors degree in Statistics, Machine Learning, Economics, Econometrics, Computer Science, or other quantitative fields (If M.S. or Bachelors degree, a minimum of 10+ years of industry data science experience required; If PhD degree, a minimum of 6+ years of industry data science experience required)
• Deep understanding of online experimentation and causal inference. Able to demonstrate application of the statistical underpinnings of experimentation: hypothesis testing, p-values, causal inference, etc
• Fluent with statistical analysis, programming languages (e.g., Python/R) and querying relational databases (e.g., SQL)
• Comfortable in innovative and fast-paced environments, and an innate ability to bias toward action
• Strong technical communication and demonstrated ability to discuss complex topics with technical and non-technical audiences alike
• Able to tackle ambiguous and undefined problems

Responsibilities

• Elevate the experimentation practice for the Ads org by creating the right processes, templates and tools catered for ads use cases
• Lead the experimentation council that approves/guides experiment designs to ensure high-quality and trustworthy experimental results
• Explore new experiment designs/techniques and apply them successfully for complex experiments on the ads side of the business
• Liaise with the centralized experimentation team in building platform features to accelerate ads experimentation
• Develop and adopt metrics and statistical methods that help ads product teams better measure their feature areas
• Serve as a thought-partner for product managers, engineering managers and leadership from your respective product domain

Preferred Qualifications

• Experience with digital advertising and marketplace dynamics is preferred, but not required
• Desire to mentor other data scientists and share best practices to elevate the data science practice at Reddit

Benefits

• Comprehensive Health benefits
• 401k Matching
• Workspace benefits for your home office
• Personal & Professional development funds
• Family Planning Support
• Flexible Vacation (please use them!)
• Reddit Global Days Off
• 4+ months paid Parental Leave
• Paid Volunteer time off