Senior Staff Data Scientist, Consumer Relevance

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RedditRemote - United StatesRemotefull-timestaff

$232,500 USD

Tech Stack

Responsibilities

  • Serve as the technical authority on relevance metrics and evaluation methodology across Consumer, setting standards for how we measure the quality of feeds, search results, and recommendations.
  • Develop metrics frameworks and offline evaluation approaches for ranking and recommendation systems, including proxy metrics that reliably predict long-term outcomes.
  • Design and analyze experiments for relevance features, accounting for challenges unique to networked platforms such as spillover effects and long-run impacts.
  • Identify opportunities where improved measurement and analysis can unlock product insights, particularly around content quality, search intent, and personalization effectiveness.
  • Mentor and elevate other data scientists across the organization on relevance evaluation, experimentation best practices for ranking systems, causal reasoning, and statistical rigor.

Benefits

  • 401k
  • Equity
  • Health Insurance
  • Learning Budget
  • Parental Leave
  • Remote Work

Culture

Mission-DrivenFast-PacedCustomer-ObsessedWork-Life BalanceInclusive Hiring

Requirements

Required: Ph.D. in Statistics, Computer Science, Information Retrieval, Economics, or a related quantitative field with a strong focus on recommendation systems, ranking, causal inference, or evaluation methodology; or M.S. with equivalent depth of expertise
Regions: Us

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Reddit is a community of communities built on shared interests, passion, and trust, featuring over 100,000 active communities and approximately 130 million daily active unique visitors.

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Compensation
Base salary: $232,500 USD
Equity: equity in the form of restricted stock units