Machine Learning Manager, Reddit
Notifications Relevance
$230-322k
+ RSUs
Online platform for thoughts, experiences & discussions
Job no longer available
Online platform for thoughts, experiences & discussions
1001+ employees
Job no longer available
$230-322k
+ RSUs
1001+ employees
Company mission
To empower communities, and make their knowledge accessible to all.
Role
Who you are
- 2+ years of experience building and managing engineering teams
- 5+ years of experience as a Machine Learning Engineer or Software Engineer working on large-scale machine learning systems
- Deep understanding of building and deploying large-scale recommender systems (retrieval + ranking) in production
- Hands-on experience working with deep learning models, sequential features and real-time systems
- Experience with distributed training and inference using tools like Ray, PyTorch Distributed, or similar
- Familiarity with reinforcement learning or multi-objective optimization in recommendation systems
- Entrepreneurial and self-directed, innovative, results-oriented, biased towards action in fast-paced environments
- Able to communicate and discuss complex topics with technical and non-technical audiences
- Able to tackle ambiguous and undefined problems
What the job involves
- The Notifications Relevance Team focuses on delivering the right content to the right user at the right time through push, email, and in-app notifications
- Our systems and algorithms operate on the world's largest corpus of human conversation, connecting Redditors with what matters - whether it’s recommending similar posts and subreddits, surfacing conversations they’ll care about, or introducing communities they didn’t know they needed
- We are looking for an Engineering Manager to lead our Notifications Relevance team, shaping the future of Notifications at Reddit
- In this role, you will lead a team of machine learning engineers dedicated to advancing our current Notifications Relevance systems
- This is a high-impact team driving DAU growth and long-term user retention by connecting users to what matters most to them
- If applying ML / AI in production to improve the relevance of Reddit Notifications excites you, then you’ve found the right place
- Lead the team that architects and designs notifications relevance at Reddit
- Guide team on holistic, adaptive systems covering budgeting optimization, candidate retrieval, and ranking
- Work with ML engineers to design, implement, and optimize machine-learning models that drive personalization and user re-engagement
- Participate in the full development cycle: design, develop, QA, experiment, analyze, and deploy
- Build and maintain a diverse team that can collaborate across disciplines to find technical solutions to complex challenges
- Serve as a thought partner to product and upper management to ensure your team’s plans align with company goals
- Communicate your team’s work and set expectations with cross-functional stakeholders
- Help your engineers identify career goals and create development plans to achieve them
- Constantly seek opportunities to push your engineers & managers outside their comfort zone and turn followers into leaders
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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