Data Science Manager

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 116 million daily active unique visitors, Reddit is one of the internet’s largest sources of information. For more information, visit www.redditinc.com.

Location: US remote-friendly or any office location - SF, LA, CHI, NY

At Reddit we continue to grow our teams with the best talent. We're completely US remote friendly.

The Data Science Team at Reddit is growing and we are looking for an experienced Data Science Manager to lead a team of talented data scientists to drive and optimize user growth by uncovering insights and driving strategic initiatives. This role will collaborate closely with cross-functional partners (Product, Engineering, Design, Marketing) to help us build and improve the systems that continuously drive our user growth.

Responsibilities:

• Drive the adoption of strategic and tactical recommendations that are based on (1) deep and hands-on experience with Reddit products, and (2) data skills and understanding, to maximize our value to Reddit consumers.

• Serve as a thought-partner for product managers, engineering managers and leadership from your respective product domain, communicating and shaping the roadmap and strategy for Reddit by identifying actionable and impactful insights through deep-dive analyses and analytics insights.

• Be proactively involved in all phases of product development, including but not limited to, ideation, exploratory analysis, opportunity sizing, metrics design, offline modeling, experimentation and decision-making, post-launch monitoring/measurements etc.

• You will have a keen interest in the collection and quality of underlying data (experiment design and analysis, data deep dive), along with working on ETLs, reporting dashboards and data aggregations needed for business tracking and/or ML model development.

Required Qualifications:

• Advanced degree (masters or PhD) in a quantitative field such as: statistics, mathematics, physics, economics, or operations research

• For masters holders, 10+ years of industry experience

• For PhD holders, 6+ years of industry experience

• You have experience in driving product strategy and roadmaps through analytics, ideally for consumer technology products and marketplaces

• You have built, led and developed high performing product analytics teams before: ideally 2+ years of leadership experience as a people manager, leading a team of 5+ data scientists.

• Teams you have led had expertise in causal inference, A/B testing experimentation, metric definition and governance, and product strategy

• You have led initiatives to enable analytics self serve for cross-functional teams

• You excel at communicating to both technical and non-technical people

• You have an ability to understand nuanced complex concepts and systems, and explain them simply.

• You are proficient in SQL and Python/R for hands-on analysis. You can roll up your sleeves and work side by side with your team when needed

• You have a collaborative attitude and natural curiosity and strong evidence-backed product opinions

Benefits:

• Comprehensive Healthcare Benefits and Income Replacement Programs

• 401k with Employer Match

• Global Benefit programs that fit your lifestyle, from workspace to professional development to caregiving support

• Family Planning Support

• Gender-Affirming Care

• Mental Health & Coaching Benefits

• Flexible Vacation & Paid Volunteer Time Off

• Generous Paid Parental Leave

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Pay Transparency:

This job posting may span more than one career level.

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. To learn more, please visit https://www.redditinc.com/careers/.

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. Final offer amounts are determined by multiple factors including, skills, depth of work experience and relevant licenses/credentials, and may vary from the amounts listed below.

The base salary range for this position is:
$217,000—$303,900 USD

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Reddit is proud to be an equal opportunity employer, and is committed to building a workforce representative of the diverse communities we serve. Reddit is committed to providing reasonable accommodations for qualified individuals with disabilities and disabled veterans in our job application procedures. If, due to a disability, you need an accommodation during the interview process, please let your recruiter know.