Sr. Staff Data Scientist - Ads Measurement, Signals, Privacy

EngineersOfAI; Toronto; On-site; CAD 170,000 - 260,000; Full time

Job summary

Reddit is seeking a Senior Staff Data Scientist to lead the scientific strategy behind ads measurement and signal systems, positioning privacy-aware measurement at the core of advertiser value.

You will guide experimentation, causal inference at scale, and cross-functional collaboration to redefine how Reddit proves ad impact and optimizes signal quality in a fast-moving ad-tech landscape.

Responsibilities

• Define the long-term data science vision & strategy across ads measurement, signal quality, identity, attribution, and privacy.
• Establish how Reddit should evaluate advertiser value, measurement quality, and signal utility across first-party and third-party products.
• Create rigorous frameworks for validating lift, attribution, identity quality, modeled conversions, signal loss recovery, and privacy-aware measurement.
• Lead the evolution of Reddit’s experimentation and lift methodologies across Brand Lift, Conversion Lift, Split Testing, and emerging measurement products.
• Improve study quality, reduce bias and contamination, and develop scalable diagnostics for experiment health, feasibility, and interpretability.
• Partner with Ads Engineering to operationalize complex causal models, ensuring methodologies are accurate, performant, scalable, and resilient in high-throughput production.
• Quantify how signal quality, match rates, identity resolution, modeled conversions, and privacy changes affect bidding efficiency, CPA, ROAS, and advertiser outcomes.
• Lead a privacy-first measurement paradigm, positioning Reddit as a market leader in trusted advertising.
• Create durable data pipelines and measurement assets that scale across teams.

Job description

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

Reddit’s Ads Data Science team is looking for a Senior Staff Data Scientist to lead the scientific strategy behind Reddit’s ads measurement and signal systems. This role sits at the center of how Reddit proves advertiser value, improves signal quality, builds privacy-aware measurement systems, and connects ads exposure to real advertiser outcomes.

As a Senior Staff Data Scientist for Ads Measurement, you will be the principal architect of our technical vision and the driving force behind the next generation of our measurement ecosystem. In a landscape rapidly shifting due to privacy regulations, browser changes, and evolving platform dynamics, you will spearhead innovation across experimental design (incrementality/lift), identity, signals, and privacy-safe 1P/3P measurement.

This is a high-visibility, high-impact role requiring a rare blend of deep experimentation & causal inference expertise, strategic foresight, and the ability to influence cross-functional executives and industry standards. You will not just adapt to the changing ad-tech environment, you will redefine how we measure value.

Responsibilities

• Technical Vision & Strategy: Define the long-term data science vision & strategy across ads measurement, signal quality, identity, attribution, and privacy. Establish how Reddit should evaluate advertiser value, measurement quality, and signal utility across first-party and third-party products.
• Set the Cross-Pillar Measurement Science Strategy:Define the long-term data science strategy across ads measurement, signal quality, identity, attribution, and privacy. Establish how Reddit should evaluate advertiser value, measurement quality, and signal utility across first-party and third-party products.
• Build Trusted Measurement and Evaluation Frameworks:Create rigorous frameworks for validating lift, attribution, identity quality, modeled conversions, signal loss recovery, and privacy-aware measurement. Define ground truth, objective functions, quality metrics, guardrails, and decision frameworks that guide product and engineering investments.
• Advance Experimentation and Causal Inference at Scale:Lead the evolution of Reddit’s experimentation and lift methodologies across Brand Lift, Conversion Lift, Split Testing, and emerging measurement products. Improve study quality, reduce bias and contamination, and develop scalable diagnostics for experiment health, feasibility, and interpretability. Partner with Ads Engineering to operationalize complex causal models, ensuring that scientific methodologies are not only accurate but also performant, scalable, and resilient in high-throughput production environments.
• Connect Signals, Identity, and Ranking Outcomes:Quantify how signal quality, match rates, identity resolution, modeled conversions, and privacy changes affect bidding efficiency, CPA, ROAS, and advertiser outcomes. Partner with modeling and ranking teams to translate measurement improvements into performance gains.
• Guide Privacy-Aware Ads Measurement:Lead a privacy-first measurement paradigm, positioning Reddit as a market leader in trusted advertising by recovering signal utility through compliant modeling.
• Create Durable Data