Staff Data Scientist, Growth

Location: US remote-friendly

Reddit has a flexible first workforce. 

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. 

The Growth team 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 the team’s Data Scientist, you will play an influential role in guiding product strategy through proactively surfacing insights, conducting exploratory analyses and executing advanced experimentation.

Responsibilities:

• Help build the long term product vision and strategy for Top of Funnel to driver new user acquisition 

• Design and measure metrics that help evaluate the health of the business and the success of our products, including ETL development needed for consistent and robust analysis

• Build self-serve tools for product and engineering partners that help scale data science impact and increase data literacy in the organization

• Generate data-driven insights that propose next steps in strategic roadmaps

• Design and evaluate experiments for product features to understand the effectiveness of product strategy

• 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:

• Have proven experience in data science and/or product analytics roles (6 or more years)

• Proficiency with relational databases (e.g., SQL)

• Are familiar 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

• Are comfortable in innovative and fast-paced environments, and have a bias toward action.

• Can discuss complex topics with technical and non-technical audiences

• Enjoy solving ambiguous and undefined problems

• Interest in SEO

Benefits:

• Comprehensive Health benefits

• 401k Matching

• Workspace benefits for your home office

• Personal & Professional development funds

• Family Planning Support

• Flexible Vacation (please use them!) & Reddit Global Days Off

• 4+ months paid Parental Leave

• Paid Volunteer time off

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