Senior Staff Data Scientist
Core
Define metrics and analytical frameworks to measure, evaluate, and improve the quality of recommendations and search results across Reddit's Consumer organization.
Role type
Senior Staff Data Scientist (Relevance & Evaluation)
Builds
Feeds, Search, and Recommendation systems for Reddit's consumer platform
Domain
Social Media / Recommendation Systems / Causal Inference
Deliverable
production ML models | dashboards & analysis
Required skills
Metrics design for ranking/recommendation, Causal inference, Experimental design, SQL, Python/R, Statistical computing, Product strategy influence, Mentoring
Preferred skills
Published research in recommendation systems, Experience with social network dynamics
Technologies
SQL, Python, R
Responsibilities
Set standards for measuring quality of feeds, search results, and recommendations; Design offline evaluation approaches and proxy metrics; Analyze experiments accounting for network effects and interference; Translate model metrics into user-facing impact; Mentor data scientists on evaluation best practices
Seniority
Senior Staff, hands-on IC with strategic influence
