Staff Data Scientist, Consumer

Reddit, Inc.; New York (NY); Hybrid; USD 217,000 - 303,900; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Comprehensive Healthcare Benefits and

401k with Employer Match

Global Benefit programs

Family Planning Support

Gender-Affirming Care

Mental Health & Coaching Benefits

Flexible Vacation & Paid VolunteerTime

Generous Paid Parental Leave

Job summary

Reddit, Inc. is seeking a Staff Data Scientist to guide product strategy through exploratory analyses and proactive opportunities. You will design metrics, oversee experiments, and build self-serve analytics tools for product and engineering partners.

The role emphasizes mentoring, data literacy, and influencing senior stakeholders. You will collaborate with product, engineering, and design teams across the US to translate insights into actionable product improvements and scalable analytics

Qualifications

• Advanced degree required in a quantitative field.
• 10+ years of industry experience for MS holders; 6+ years for PhD holders.
• Expert SQL and relational databases; strong R/Python skills.

Responsibilities

• Identify opportunities to attract users and drive engagement.
• Influence roadmaps with data-driven insights into user behavior.
• Design metrics and ETL processes for robust analysis.
• Lead experiments from design to interpretation and decision making.
• Build self-serve analytics tools for product and engineering partners.
• Collaborate cross-functionally with product, engineering, and design teams.
• Mentor junior data scientists and elevate best practices.

Skills

Data storytelling

Strong communication

Mentoring

Problem solving

Executive collaboration

Education

Advanced degree in Statistics/Math/Physics/Economics/OR

Tools

SQL

R

Python

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

Location: US remote-friendly or any office location - SF, LA, CHI, NY

Reddit is poised to rapidly innovate and grow like no other time in its history. This is a unique opportunity to leave your mark on one of the most influential and trafficked corners of the internet.

Consumer data science plays a key role in fulfilling Reddit's mission of bringing community & belonging to the world through deep understanding of how we can better connect people to the best information and communities for them - the heart of Reddit's product - from crypto to support groups, gaming to AMAs, travel tips to memes.

As a Staff Data Scientist on the team, you will play an influential role in guiding product strategy through proactively identifying opportunities, conducting exploratory analyses and sharing insights, and driving learning through experimentation.

Responsibilities:

• Help build the long term product strategy by identifying opportunities to attract new users, increase engagement, and drive retention
• Influence strategic roadmaps through data-driven insights into user behaviors and needs
• Design metrics that help evaluate the health of the business and the success of our products, including any ETL development needed for consistent and robust analysis
• Drive experimentation from design through execution and analysis to maximize learnings and guide future investment decisions
• Build self-serve tools for product and engineering partners that answer common questions and/or increase data literacy in the organization
• Work cross functionally with product, engineering, and design teams to ensure insights make it to the product
• Scale your work to other parts of the data organization through mentoring more junior data scientists, improving processes, and providing perspective on the most important problems

Required Qualifications:

• Advanced degree (Master's or Ph.D.) in Statistics, Mathematics, Physics, Economics, or Operations Research
• For M.S. holders: 10+ years of industry experience in applied science or data science roles
• For Ph.D. holders: 6+ years of industry experience in applied science or data science roles
• Expert knowledge of SQL and relational databases
• Familiarity with statistical analysis and the preferred programming languages of the team (R / Python)
• Demonstrated ability to influence and guide product strategy with data
• Demonstrated ability to take ambiguous problems and solve them in a structured, hypothesis-driven, data-supported way
• Familiarity with causal inference techniques and causal models
• Excellent communication and experience working with senior leaders / stakeholders
• Entrepreneurial, self-directed, and enthusiastic about solving problems
• Demonstrated ability to mentor other data scientists and share best practices to elevate the data science practice at Reddit
• Conform in innovative and fast-paced environments, and have a bias toward action.
• Can discuss complex topics with technical and non-technical audiences

Benefits:

• Comprehensive Healthcare Benefits and Income Replacement Programs
• 401k with Employer Match
• Global Benefit programs that fit your lifestyle, from workspace to professional development to caregiving support
• Family Planning Support
• Gender-Affirming Care
• Mental Health & Coaching Benefits
• Flexible Vacation & Paid Volunteer Time Off
• Generous Paid Parental Leave

Pay Transparency:

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 https://www.redditinc.com/careers/.

To provide greater transparency to candidates, we share base salary ranges for all US-based job postings regardless of state. We set standard base pay ranges for all roles based on function, level, and country location, benchmarked against similar stage growth companies. Final offer amounts are determined by multiple factors including, skills, depth of work experience and relevant licenses/credentials, and may vary from the amounts listed below.

The base salary range for this position is:

$217,000—$303,900 USD

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