Staff Data Scientist, Consumer

Job Description

Reddit is seeking a Staff Data Scientist to join their Consumer team. This role is crucial in shaping product strategy through data-driven insights and experimentation. The Staff Data Scientist will work closely with product, engineering, and design teams to enhance user engagement and retention.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 101M+ daily active unique visitors, Reddit is one of the internet’s largest sources of information.Responsibilities:

• Help build the long term product strategy
• Influence strategic roadmaps through data-driven insights
• Design metrics to evaluate business health and product success
• Drive experimentation from design through execution and analysis
• Build self-serve tools for product and engineering partners
• Work cross functionally with product, engineering, and design teams
• Scale your work to other parts of the data organization

Requirements:

• Ph.D., M.S. or Bachelors degree in Statistics, Machine Learning, Economics, Computer Science, or other quantitative fields
• Expert knowledge of SQL and relational databases
• Familiarity with statistical analysis and R / Python
• Demonstrated ability to influence and guide product strategy with data
• Demonstrated ability to solve ambiguous problems in a structured way
• Familiarity with causal inference techniques and causal models
• Excellent communication and experience working with senior leaders / stakeholders

Reddit offers:

• Comprehensive Healthcare Benefits
• 401k Match
• Family Planning Support
• Mental Health & Coaching Benefits
• Flexible Vacation & Reddit Global Days off
• Generous paid Parental Leave
• Paid Volunteer time off