Senior Director, Data Science
Reddit · Remote - United States
About this role
**About Reddit** Reddit is a community of communities—built on shared interests, passion, and trust. With 100,000+ active communities and approximately 130 million daily active unique visitors, Reddit is one of the internet’s largest sources of information. **Role: Senior Director, Consumer Data Science** Reddit is seeking a Senior Director of Consumer Data Science to lead a multi-team organization partnering across Consumer, Product, Engineering, and the broader business. You’ll set the strategy and operating model for consumer data science, strengthen systems and standards for reliable, actionable, scalable scientific outputs, and guide high-impact decisions through measurement, experimentation, causal inference, and ML. You’ll help define how Reddit measures and improves relevance across the consumer journey—from retrieval and ranking to feed, search, recommendations, and community discovery—while shaping the long-term organizational capabilities required to advance these systems. --- ## What you’ll do - Partner with senior leaders across Consumer, Product, Engineering, and business functions to define company-level bets, priorities, and tradeoffs. - Set the data science strategy for feed, recommendation, search, retrieval, and ranking systems (objective design, candidate generation, ranking quality, relevance evaluation, experimentation, and long-term optimization). - Establish the measurement and experimentation framework for relevance optimization, including offline evaluation, online experimentation, counterfactual analysis, guardrail metrics, metric integrity, and linking model improvements to consumer/community outcomes. - Translate complex user and community behavior into clear, impartial insights that improve product strategy and consumer outcomes. - Establish durable standards for measurement, experimentation, causal inference, reproducibility, privacy, responsible AI use, and self-serve measurement at scale. - Build multi-team roadmaps, operating cadences, and clear accountability to turn direction into durable delivery. - Apply strong technical judgment across architecture choices, analytical systems, hiring, and sponsorship of high-leverage programs. - Build or rebuild systems and practices so analytical work is reliable, adoptable, and scalable—not dependent on individual heroics. - Recruit, retain, and develop exceptional Directors, managers, and IC5+ leaders across multiple teams or pillars. - Set a high talent bar through succession planning, calibration, and clear expectations for coaching, performance, accountability, and growth. - Create durable cross-org forums and operating mechanisms that improve coordination, culture, and decision quality. - Align senior product, engineering, and business leaders on measurement strategy, difficult tradeoffs, and decisions with material multi-year impact. - Represent Reddit externally and internally as a thought leader and visible culture shaper for rigor. - Partner with teams advancing ML and analytical systems that deepen understanding of Reddit’s UGC and community ecosystem. --- ## Skills and Qualifications - Deep data science expertise in measurement, experimentation, causal inference, ML, data platforms, and analytical systems—with the technical judgment to set company-scale standards. - Experience in UGC or community ecosystems; strong perspective on improving consumer experiences while protecting analytical quality, privacy, and responsible AI practices. - Proven ab
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