Senior Staff Data Scientist - Consumer Experimentation
Core
Senior technical leader defining experimentation methodology and causal inference standards for Reddit's Consumer organization, solving complex network effects and interference problems.
Role type
Senior Staff Data Scientist (Experimentation & Causal Inference)
Builds
Self-serve experimentation tools, platforms, and methodological frameworks for product teams
Domain
Social media / Consumer internet / Causal inference
Deliverable
production ML models | product features | research
Required skills
Causal inference, experimental design, network interference analysis, cluster-randomized designs, switchback experiments, synthetic control methods, power analysis, variance reduction, sequential testing, SQL, R, Python
Preferred skills
Bayesian experimental methods, bandit algorithms, adaptive experimental designs, published research in interference/network experimentation
Technologies
R, Python, SQL
Responsibilities
Serve as technical authority on experimentation methodology, tackle hardest experimentation problems (spillover, network effects), develop causal inference methods for non-randomized settings, design experimentation frameworks and guardrail metrics, build and scale self-serve experimentation tools, influence product strategy through experiments, mentor data scientists on causal reasoning
Seniority
Senior Staff, hands-on IC with significant mentorship
