Staff Data Scientist, Reddit
Ads Experimentation
$206.7-289.4k
+ Equity (RSU's)
Online platform for thoughts, experiences and discussions
Open for applications
Online platform for thoughts, experiences and discussions
1001+ employees
Open for applications
$206.7-289.4k
+ Equity (RSU's)
1001+ employees
Company mission
Reddit's mission is to bring community and belonging to everyone.
Role
Who you are
- 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
- 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
What the job involves
- The Ads Data Science Team at Reddit is growing and we are looking for an experienced Staff Data Scientist to partner with product managers, engineers, and data scientists to up-level the experimentation capabilities of the ads organization
- You will work with your cross-functional partners to enable more successful decision-making, product creation and adoption of a variety of new techniques in modeling, experimentation, statistical frameworks, and causal inference
- 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 that lead to action
- Explore new experiment designs/techniques such as budget split experiments, variance reduction techniques, Bayesian approaches, causal inference methodologies, dosage response studies, staggered experiments etc 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, as well as the toolset to help experimenters understand the “why” behind what they are seeing in their experiments
- 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 experimentation
Our take
Reddit is a website that facilitates thousands of message board communities, known as subreddits, with an aim to promote authentic human connection. There are more than 100,000 communities on Reddit, covering everything, from food, entertainment, sports, and books, to more niche topics that cater for very specific audiences.
The simple platform is used by more than 52 million people a day and attracts over 50 billion monthly views. While these are impressive numbers, they do pale in comparison with social media giants Facebook and Twitter, however, Reddit distinguishes itself by providing easy-to-find communities for a truly endless range of topics.
Reddit makes money through advertising as well as offering a premium ad-free membership plan. The company has enjoyed continuous user & revenue growth, acquisitions by Conde Nast in 2006 and Advance in 2011, and plans to launch an IPO bid in 2024.
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Company
Funding (last 2 of 6 rounds)
Aug 2021
$410m
SERIES F
Feb 2021
$250m
SERIES E
Total funding: $1.2bn
Company benefits
- Paid volunteer time off
- 4+ months paid parental leave
- Personal and professional development stipend
- Work from home opportunities
- Health insurance
Company values
- Make something people love
- Evolve
- Work hard
- Default open
Company HQ
SoMa, San Francisco, CA
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Founders
Steve Huffman
(CEO)After co-founding Reddit in 2005, they stepped away from the company to co-found Hipmunk, where they were the CTO. They returned to Reddit in 2015, and have been the CEO since.
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