Senior Staff Data Scientist - Consumer Relevance
Core
Senior technical leader defining metrics, evaluation frameworks, and experimental design for personalized content ranking, community discovery, and search on Reddit's interconnected network of user-generated communities.
Role type
Senior Staff Data Scientist (Relevance & Evaluation)
Builds
Measurement standards and analytical frameworks for Feeds and Search ML teams to improve content quality and user satisfaction.
Domain
Social media / Recommendation systems / Causal inference
Deliverable
production ML models
Required skills
Causal inference, experimental design, offline evaluation metrics, 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 feed, search, and recommendation quality; Develop metrics frameworks and offline evaluation approaches; Design and analyze experiments for relevance features; Identify opportunities to unlock unmeasurable product insights; Partner with ML engineers to translate metrics to user impact; Influence long-term product strategy for Feeds and Search; Mentor data scientists on evaluation best practices
Seniority
Senior Staff, hands-on IC with strategy & mentorship