Staff Data Scientist

Summary

Join Reddit's Consumer Data Science team as a Staff Data Scientist and play a key role in shaping product strategy. You will leverage data-driven insights to attract new users, boost engagement, and improve retention. Responsibilities include designing metrics, conducting experiments, building self-serve tools, and mentoring junior data scientists. This role requires a strong background in statistics, machine learning, and SQL, as well as excellent communication skills. Reddit offers a competitive salary and benefits package, including comprehensive healthcare, 401k matching, generous parental leave, and flexible vacation time. The position is remote-friendly or based in SF, LA, CHI, or NY. This is an opportunity to make a significant impact on one of the internet's most influential platforms.

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 PhD 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

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

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