Principal Data Scientist, Reddit
User Ecosystem
$313-365.1k
+ RSUs
Online platform for thoughts, experiences & discussions
Be an early applicant
Online platform for thoughts, experiences & discussions
1001+ employees
Be an early applicant
$313-365.1k
+ RSUs
1001+ employees
Company mission
To empower communities, and make their knowledge accessible to all.
Role
Who you are
- Deep expertise in at least one relevant area, with the breadth and curiosity to work across adjacent domains
- A deep understanding of how to model and optimize systems involving users, content, communities, and feedback loops
- Ability to frame and lead the most ambiguous questions, identify the most important uncertainties, and develop a rigorous path from evidence to action
- Exceptional technical judgment across model design, objective selection, validation, experimentation, and production tradeoffs
- Advanced knowledge of modern machine-learning methods for behavioral and content data, including representation learning and sequential or contextual models. Experience with deep-learning frameworks such as PyTorch or JAX
- Experience working across Product, Engineering, Research, and other partner teams
- Excellent written and verbal communication, with the ability to influence senior stakeholders and explain technical ideas clearly
- Significant experience applying data science, machine learning, statistics, experimentation, or causal inference to complex consumer products
What the job involves
- Set the scientific direction for high-impact Consumer problems spanning discovery, relevance, personalization, user growth, retention, content, and communities
- Build a durable understanding of users, their intent, their needs, and the behaviors that lead to lasting value
- Develop models and frameworks that represent users, content, communities, and their relationships over time for use in systems that operate at scale
- Determine how to measure consumer and ecosystem health when objectives compete and short-term engagement may differ from long-term value
- Set learning agendas and steer experimentation strategy to distinguish durable improvement from temporary metric movement
- Build state-of-the-art measurement systems to evaluate heterogeneous effects across user personas, acquisition cohorts, platforms, content types, and community stages, and guide their actionability in production environments
- Ensure coherence around ecosystem interactions including feedback loops, selection effects, interference, distribution shift, content supply, and other ecosystem risks
- Translate complex technical findings into clear product and business decisions
- Develop exceptional scientists through mentoring and influence data science org health and direction
Our take
Reddits is an online platform that hosts thousands of message board communities (known as subreddits) designed to foster authentic human connection. With more than 130,000 communities covering everything from food, entertainment and sports, to niche interests for highly specific audiences, there's virtually a space for everyone.
The platform attracts over 120 million daily users and billions of monthly page views. While these figures are smaller than those of social media giants like Facebook and X, Reddit stands out by offering easily discoverable communities where users can dive deep into virtually any topic imaginable.
Today, Reddit continues to grow its user base and expand its reach, remaining a unique hub for conversation, connection and shared interests. With its strong community-driven model and steady revenue streams, it's most definitely positioned to stay a central part of online culture for years to come.
Kirsty
Company Specialist at Welcome to the Jungle
Insights
57% employee growth in 12 months
Company
Funding (last 2 of 6 rounds)
Aug 2021
$410m
SERIES F
Feb 2021
$250m
SERIES E
Total funding: $1.2bn
Company benefits
- Comprehensive health benefits
- Flexible vacation & Reddit global days off
- Family planning funds & 4+ months paid parental leave
- Personal & professional development funds
- Paid volunteer time off
- Workspace & home office benefits
Company HQ
SoMa, San Francisco, CA
Leadership
Steve Huffman
(CEO & Founder)After co-founding Reddit in 2005, they stepped away from the company to co-found Hipmunk, where they were the CTO for 5 years. They returned to Reddit in 2015, and have been the CEO since.
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