Senior Technical Product Manager, Ads ML Platform

Reddit Reddit · Consumer · United States · Remote · Ads Product

Senior Technical Product Manager for Reddit's Ads ML Platform, focusing on building and defining the vision for infrastructure and tools that enable ML engineers and data scientists to train, deploy, and iterate on models faster. The role bridges ML systems and business outcomes, integrating generative AI, model-serving, and optimizing GPU utilization to accelerate ad product development.

What you'd actually do

  1. Define the Vision: Shape the long-term strategy and roadmap for Reddit’s Ads ML platform, ensuring we are adopting cutting-edge technologies (including Generative AI and LLM workflows) to stay ahead of the curve.
  2. Accelerate Velocity: Build products and tooling that dramatically reduce friction for Machine Learning Engineers (MLEs) and Data Scientists, enabling them to train, deploy, and iterate on models faster than ever.
  3. Cross-Functional Leadership: Partner deeply with Engineering, Data Science, and Ads Product teams to understand their constraints, prioritize platform initiatives, and deliver scalable infrastructure.
  4. Drive Execution and Adoption: Own key performance indicators (KPIs) around platform reliability, latency, cost-efficiency, usage metrics, and developer productivity.
  5. Stay Cutting-Edge: Keep your finger on the pulse of the broader ML ecosystem. Read the latest research papers, understand emerging architectures, and determine how they can be practically applied to Reddit’s Ads ML platform.
  6. Distill pain points, translate to requirements: Conduct regular user research with MLEs in Ranking, Creative Effectiveness and Content Understanding to convert pain points (e.g., slow backfills, limited training speed, no way to quickly share features across models) into precise product requirements. Validate the needs and ensure they are tied into a broader vision for the org.

Skills

Required

  • Experienced product manager with prior focus internal technical products, developer tools, data/ML platforms, and/or ads and content ranking.
  • Deeply analytical and highly technical background; you are comfortable working in complex data systems and understanding the entire machine learning lifecycle (training, inference, deployment, monitoring).
  • Genuine passion for machine learning and AI; you stay at the forefront of ML, enjoy reading ML research papers, stay informed on the latest industry trends, architectures, and capabilities.
  • Exceptional problem-solving skills and the ability to translate highly technical constraints (e.g., GPU scheduling, latency budgets) into actionable product roadmaps.
  • Strong communication skills; you can seamlessly translate technical requirements to business stakeholders and articulate business goals to engineering teams.

Nice to have

  • Prior professional experience as a Machine Learning Engineer, Data Scientist, or Backend Software Engineer before transitioning into Product Management.
  • Understanding of the Ad Tech ecosystem (bidding, ranking, targeting).
  • Experience implementing or managing systems that support Generative AI/LLM workflows (Agentic automation, Prompt iteration, Fine-tuning, RAG).

What the JD emphasized

  • internal technical products
  • developer tools
  • data/ML platforms
  • ads and content ranking
  • complex data systems
  • entire machine learning lifecycle
  • GPU scheduling
  • latency budgets
  • Generative AI/LLM workflows
  • Agentic automation
  • Prompt iteration
  • Fine-tuning
  • RAG

Other signals

  • ML infrastructure
  • developer velocity
  • generative AI
  • LLM workflows
  • model serving
  • GPU utilization