Reddit is looking to attract new users, increase engagement, and drive retention through data-driven insights and product strategy.
Requirements
- Expert knowledge of SQL and relational databases
- Familiarity with statistical analysis and the preferred programming languages of the team (R / Python)
- Familiarity with causal inference techniques and causal models
Responsibilities
- Help build the long term product strategy by identifying opportunities to attract new users, increase engagement, and drive retention
- 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
- Drive experimentation from design through execution and analysis to maximize learnings and guide future investment decisions
- Build self-serve tools for product and engineering partners that answer common questions and/or increase data literacy in the organization
- Work cross functionally with product, engineering, and design teams to ensure insights make it to the product
- Scale your work to other parts of the data organization through mentoring more junior data scientists, improving processes, and providing perspective on the most important problems
Other
- Ph.D., M.S. or Bachelors degree in Statistics, Machine Learning, Economics, Computer Science, or other quantitative fields
- 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
- Excellent communication and experience working with senior leaders / stakeholders
- Entrepreneurial, self-directed, and enthusiastic about solving problems
- Demonstrated ability to mentor other data scientists and share best practices to elevate the data science practice at Reddit
- Conform in innovative and fast-paced environments, and have a bias toward action
- Can discuss complex topics with technical and non-technical audiences
