Senior Data Science Manager, Ads Marketplace
Job Summary
Reddit is seeking a data science leader to oversee a team focused on enhancing advertising products through data-driven strategies and advanced analytics. The role involves managing data science projects, analyzing large datasets, and developing experiments to improve user and advertiser experiences. Key qualifications include a relevant advanced degree, programming skills, and experience with experimentation and causal inference. The position offers opportunities for leadership, innovation, and impact within a fast-paced, community-centric platform.
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[Location: remote-friendly or any office location - SF, LA, CHI, NY]
Reddit has a flexible first workforce!
Advertising is Reddit’s primary revenue driver, and we have an ambitious goal to transform it into a substantial business. While several large digital ad platforms already exist, advertisers are increasingly drawn to Reddit due to our passionate communities. We believe our community-centric platform presents a unique opportunity for Reddit to cultivate a highly differentiated advertising enterprise.
We are seeking a highly experienced and strategic Senior Manager to lead a team of talented data scientists on Ads Marketplace. In this critical leadership role, you'll shape our data science strategy, uncover key insights through advanced statistical analysis, build foundational models, and spearhead experiments to optimize marketplace efficiency, elevate advertiser performance, and enrich the user experience. You'll conduct deep dives into intricate marketplace dynamics, pinpointing opportunities for algorithmic & product enhancements, transforming them into impactful product innovations. Collaborating closely with product, engineering, and business stakeholders, you'll translate sophisticated data insights into concrete marketplace improvements. Your leadership will be instrumental in defining our data science roadmap, cultivating a robust data-driven culture, and pushing the limits of innovation within a fast-paced ad tech landscape.
Responsibilities
- Inspire, mentor, and expand a data science team, striving to realize our long-range vision, with emphasis on Ads Marketplace Performance metrics and initiatives
- Orchestrate analytics and data science initiatives from inception to completion, partnering with Product, Engineering, and other stakeholders to shape product strategy and investment choices relevant to the Ads Marketplace
- Examine extensive data repositories to pinpoint trends, patterns, and insights that can boost advertiser adoption through insights that improve Ads marketplace efficiencies, and aid cross-functional units (e.g., product, engineering, marketing) in defining and executing data-driven approaches
- Actively influence strategic design and roadmap formulation. Leverage team insights to establish and prioritize long-term objectives, including support for Key Launch Reviews and PSR
- Devise and apply A/B testing, experimentation, causal inference and other advanced statistical frameworks to assess product efficacy, specifically focusing on Ads Foundations, Quality and Measurements Insights
- Continuously refine and implement a Data Science roadmap and strategic direction for your group, encompassing Data Foundations, Funnel Visibility & Metrics, and Long-Term Evaluations
- Remain current with industry best practices and emerging technologies in advertising and data science, especially those pertinent to marketplace optimization and ads delivery
- Cultivate a culture of innovation, cooperation, and technical distinction
- Serve as an integral part of the Data Science Organization, utilizing and contributing to the rich knowledge base shared across a community of world-class data specialists
Required Qualifications
- Ads experience and a deep understanding of the ads ecosystem
- PhD or Master's qualification in Economics, Statistics, Machine Learning, Operations Research, or other quantitative fields (For a Master's degree, a minimum of 8+ years of industry data science experience is required; for a PhD, a minimum of 6+ years is required)
- 4+ years of true people management experience (managing managers preferred)
- Robust proficiency in programming (Python or R) and SQL
- Experience or interest in establishing data foundations, and/or facilitating self-serve analytics via data science methodologies, particularly for marketplace insights
- Profound comprehension of online experimentation and causal inference, especially within advertising marketplaces
- Aptitude for conveying and discussing intricate technical subjects as well as broad strategies
- Comfortable in inventive, rapid-paced environments, possessing an inherent drive for immediate action
- Results-driven with a strong client and commercial orientation, demonstrating clear understanding of advertiser outcomes
- Proven success in advancing product roadmaps and execution through robust cross-organizational cooperation, particularly within an ads marketplace context
- Capability to provide structure and address ambiguous and ill-defined challenges, especially those related to complex marketplace dynamics
Benefits:
- Comprehensive Healthcare Benefits
- 401k Matching
- Workspace benefits for your home office
- Personal & Professional development funds
- Family Planning Support
- Flexible Vacation (please use them!) & Reddit Global Wellness Days
- 4+ months paid Parental Leave
- Paid Volunteer time off
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Pay Transparency:
This job posting may span more than one career level.
In addition to base salary, this job is eligible to receive equity in the form of restricted stock units, and depending on the position offered, it may also be eligible to receive a commission. Additionally, Reddit offers a wide range of benefits to U.S.-based employees, including medical, dental, and vision insurance, 401(k) program with employer match, generous time off for vacation, and parental leave. To learn more, please visit https://www.redditinc.com/careers/.
To provide greater transparency to candidates, we share base pay ranges for all US-based job postings regardless of state. We set standard base pay ranges for all roles based on function, level, and country location, benchmarked against similar stage growth companies. Final offer amounts are determined by multiple factors including, skills, depth of work experience and relevant licenses/credentials, and may vary from the amounts listed below.
Reddit is proud to be an equal opportunity employer, and is committed to building a workforce representative of the diverse communities we serve. Reddit is committed to providing reasonable accommodations for qualified individuals with disabilities and disabled veterans in our job application procedures. If, due to a disability, you need an accommodation during the interview process, please let your recruiter know.
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