Machine Learning Manager - Ads Targeting Modeling

Reddit, Inc.; United States; Remote; USD 230,000 - 322,000; Full time

Job summary

An innovative firm is seeking a Machine Learning Manager to lead Ads Targeting Modeling. In this pivotal role, you will drive the engineering strategy for critical targeting products, ensuring they meet the needs of advertisers while scaling effectively. Your leadership will empower a talented team, fostering their growth and guiding them through complex challenges. This position offers the chance to make a significant impact in a dynamic environment, where your expertise in machine learning and team management will be crucial. If you are passionate about technology and want to shape the future of advertising, this opportunity is for you.

Benefits

Medical Insurance

Dental Insurance

Vision Insurance

401(k) Program with Employer Match

Generous Time Off

Parental Leave

Equity in the form of Restricted Stock Units

Qualifications

• 2+ years of experience in managing ML engineering teams.
• Proven track record of building large-scale ML products.

Responsibilities

• Own the Ads engineering strategy for Ads Targeting products.
• Grow the Ads Targeting Modeling team through hiring and development.

Skills

Machine Learning

Technical Leadership

Project Management

Data-Driven Decision Making

Communication Skills

Job description

Machine Learning Manager - Ads Targeting Modeling

Remote - United States

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 97M+ daily active unique visitors, Reddit is one of the internet’s largest sources of information. For more information, visit redditinc.com.

Reddit has a flexible first workforce! If you happen to live close to one of our physical office locations, our doors are open for you to come into the office as often as you'd like. Don't live near one of our offices? No worries: You can apply to work remotely from the United States or Canada.

Role Description:

In this role, you will own the Ads engineering strategy for Ads Targeting products that are critical to scaling our business and meeting the needs of tens of thousands of advertisers – Reddit's targeting products. You will charter ML backed features that will infer and target highly qualified users and content to maximize outcomes for a varied group of advertisers.

The ideal candidate understands the value that Ads can bring to our users, advertisers, and Reddit. As the Engineering Manager of the Ads Targeting Modeling team, you will work closely with EMs, Product owners, and Data Scientists from our Ads team to: 1) set up the vision and product strategy of Ads Targeting Modeling, 2) optimize existing targeting products, and 3) provide new targeting products to reach relevant audiences. Targeting products require rich user, content, and advertiser models to match a relevant user with a campaign/advertiser. This person is an industry leader in the ML recommendation, optimization domain & marketplace dynamics with a solid technical background, strong business acumen, and excellent cross-functional stakeholder management skills.

Your Responsibilities:

• Ads Targeting Modeling Technical Vision: Build new and optimize 1P and Automation targeting products for Ads Targeting that can scale with our ads business over the next several years.
• Execution & Quality: Own the execution of your team’s roadmap and be accountable for consistent, predictable delivery with quality. Coach ICs and Tech Leads on project management and empower your team to execute autonomously. Identify risks and proactively communicate them both internally and externally.
• Grow the Ads Targeting Modeling team by identifying needs, writing job descriptions, sourcing, interviewing, and helping close candidates.
• Help your engineers identify career goals and create development plans to achieve them.
• 2+ years of supporting and growing ML engineering teams - ideally hiring and scaling a team over 100% growth.
• Proven track record of building and shipping large scale E2E ML based products.
• Experience managing a team including hiring, onboarding, and professional development.
• Experience building 0->1 products and scaling existing product lines.
• Technical enough to solve almost any problem your team has yourself, but prefer to guide your team into solving them.
• Excellent written and verbal communication skills. Ability to collaborate effectively with teams in a fully-remote environment and discuss complex topics with technical and non-technical audiences.
• Experience with data driven/informed decision making.

Preferred Qualifications:

• Experience working with and growing senior engineers IC4+.
• Previous exposure to developing and executing multi-year technical strategies.
• Passionate about building healthy and highly productive teams and collaborating with XFN stakeholders (PM, PMM, DS, Sales, etc).
• Management experience in the Advertising domain is a plus.

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 redditinc.com/careers.

The base pay range for this position is: $230,000 - $322,000 USD.

Reddit is proud to be an equal opportunity employer, and is committed to building a workforce representative of the diverse communities we serve.