Data Science Manager, Consumer

Reddit Reddit · Consumer · Canada · Remote · Consumer Data Science

Reddit is seeking an experienced Data Science Manager to lead a team focused on driving user growth through insights and strategic initiatives. The role involves collaborating with cross-functional partners, driving product strategy, and overseeing data quality, ETLs, and reporting for ML model development. Requires advanced quantitative degree, significant industry experience, leadership experience in product analytics, and proficiency in SQL and Python/R.

What you'd actually do

  1. Drive the adoption of strategic and tactical recommendations that are based on (1) deep and hands-on experience with Reddit products, and (2) data skills and understanding, to maximize our value to Reddit consumers.
  2. Serve as a thought-partner for product managers, engineering managers and leadership from your respective product domain, communicating and shaping the roadmap and strategy for Reddit by identifying actionable and impactful insights through deep-dive analyses and analytics insights.
  3. Be proactively involved in all phases of product development, including but not limited to, ideation, exploratory analysis, opportunity sizing, metrics design, offline modeling, experimentation and decision-making, post-launch monitoring/measurements etc.
  4. You will have a keen interest in the collection and quality of underlying data (experiment design and analysis, data deep dive), along with working on ETLs, reporting dashboards and data aggregations needed for business tracking and/or ML model development.

Skills

Required

  • Advanced degree (masters or PhD) in a quantitative field such as: statistics, mathematics, physics, economics, or operations research
  • 10+ years of industry experience (for masters holders)
  • 6+ years of industry experience (for PhD holders)
  • Experience in driving product strategy and roadmaps through analytics, ideally for consumer technology products and marketplaces
  • Experience in building, leading and developing high performing product analytics teams (ideally 2+ years of leadership experience as a people manager, leading a team of 5+ data scientists)
  • Expertise in causal inference, A/B testing experimentation, metric definition and governance, and product strategy
  • Led initiatives to enable analytics self serve for cross-functional teams
  • Proficiency in SQL and Python/R for hands-on analysis
  • Collaborative attitude and natural curiosity

Nice to have

  • Ability to understand nuanced complex concepts and systems, and explain them simply.

What the JD emphasized

  • ML model development