Machine Learning Manager, Feed Relevance

Reddit Reddit · Consumer · United States · Remote · Machine Learning

Reddit is seeking experienced Engineering Managers to lead their Feed Recommendations and Feed Ranking teams. This role involves leading a team of Machine Learning Engineers focused on enhancing relevance, personalization, and content discovery within the core product. The work will directly influence the personalized experiences of over 120 million daily users by focusing on content retrieval, selection, and sophisticated modeling for final ordering. The ideal candidate will have experience leading ML teams, deep expertise in large-scale production ML systems (including transformer-based architectures, sequence models, or LLMs), and a strong understanding of recommender systems.

What you'd actually do

  1. Define the technical vision and long-term roadmap for Feed Relevance, aligning cutting-edge ML solutions with Reddit’s product and business objectives.
  2. Coach and support the development of your team, constantly seeking opportunities to grow their skills and impact.
  3. Work with cross-functional partners from across the company to identify key areas of opportunity, set expectations, and communicate your team’s work.
  4. Oversee the design, development, and optimization of sophisticated relevance, discovery, and content distribution systems.
  5. Collaborate with platform and infrastructure teams to chart a path to the next generation of AI-powered solutions for Reddit.

Skills

Required

  • 2+ years of experience building and managing high-performing ML teams
  • Hands-on experience with large-scale production ML systems
  • transformer-based architectures
  • sequence models
  • Large Language Models (LLMs)
  • Strong understanding of recommender systems, including candidate retrieval, ranking, value modeling, ecosystem dynamics, and measurement strategies
  • Strategic Thinking
  • Impact-Driven Mindset
  • Exceptional Communication & Collaboration

What the JD emphasized

  • Experience Leading ML Teams
  • Deep ML Expertise
  • Hands-on experience with large-scale production ML systems
  • Strong understanding of recommender systems
  • responsible AI principles

Other signals

  • improving relevance, personalization, and discovery of the core product
  • sophisticated modeling that determines its final order
  • applying ML / AI in production to improve Reddit Relevance