Staff Data Scientist, Consumer

Reddit Reddit · Consumer · San Francisco, CA · Consumer Data Science

Staff Data Scientist role at Reddit focused on consumer product strategy. Responsibilities include identifying opportunities for user growth, engagement, and retention, influencing roadmaps with data insights, designing business metrics, driving experimentation, building self-serve tools, and mentoring junior data scientists. Requires advanced degree and significant industry experience in applied science or data science, with expertise in SQL, statistical analysis, and causal inference techniques.

What you'd actually do

  1. Help build the long term product strategy by identifying opportunities to attract new users, increase engagement, and drive retention
  2. Influence strategic roadmaps through data-driven insights into user behaviors and needs
  3. Design metrics that help evaluate the health of the business and the success of our products, including any ETL development needed for consistent and robust analysis
  4. Drive experimentation from design through execution and analysis to maximize learnings and guide future investment decisions
  5. Build self-serve tools for product and engineering partners that answer common questions and/or increase data literacy in the organization

Skills

Required

  • Advanced degree (Master's or Ph.D.) in Statistics, Mathematics, Physics, Economics, or Operations Research
  • 10+ years of industry experience (for MS holders)
  • 6+ years of industry experience (for PhD holders)
  • SQL
  • Relational databases
  • Statistical analysis
  • R
  • Python
  • Causal inference techniques
  • Causal models
  • Communication skills
  • Stakeholder management
  • Mentoring junior data scientists

Nice to have

  • ETL development

What the JD emphasized

  • Advanced degree (Master's or Ph.D.) in Statistics, Mathematics, Physics, Economics, or Operations Research
  • 10+ years of industry experience in applied science or data science roles
  • 6+ years of industry experience in applied science or data science roles
  • Expert knowledge of SQL and relational databases
  • Familiarity 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
  • Demonstrated ability to mentor other data scientists and share best practices to elevate the data science practice at Reddit