Senior Data Scientist, Consumer

<div class="content-intro"><div class="c-message_kit__blocks c-message_kit__blocks--rich_text"> <div class="c-message__message_blocks c-message__message_blocks--rich_text" data-qa="message-text"> <div class="p-block_kit_renderer" data-qa="block-kit-renderer"> <div class="p-block_kit_renderer__block_wrapper p-block_kit_renderer__block_wrapper--first"> <div class="p-rich_text_block"> <div class="p-rich_text_section">Reddit is a community of communities. It’s built on shared interests, passion, and trust, and is home to the most open and authentic conversations on the internet. Every day, Reddit users submit, vote, and comment on the topics they care most about. With 100,000+ active communities and approximately 116 million daily active unique visitors, Reddit is one of the internet’s largest sources of information. For more information, visit <a class="c-link" href="http://www.redditinc.com/" target="_blank" data-stringify-link="http://redditinc.com" data-sk="tooltip_parent">www.redditinc.com</a>.</div> </div> </div> </div> </div> </div></div><p><strong>Location: US remote-friendly or any office location - SF, LA, CHI, NY</strong></p> <p>The Data Science Team at Reddit is growing and we are looking for experienced Data Scientists to partner with our cross-functional partners (Product, Engineering, Designer, Marketing, Business Development etc.) to help us build and improve the systems that continuously drive our user and revenue growth.&nbsp;</p> <p>As a Senior Data Scientist on the team, you will have the opportunity to play a significant role in driving the success of key product areas at Reddit (Consumer, Ads, Safety etc.). You will lead and contribute to defining the product strategy through measurement and metrics design, experimentation and causal analyses, supporting product decisions via deep data analyses, and research.&nbsp;</p> <p>This person will be an industry technical leader with a solid technical background, strong business acumen, and excellent cross-functional stakeholders management skills. You will go through a general Data Scientists hiring process and get matched to the product area that best fits your background and interest.&nbsp;</p> <p><strong>Responsibilities:</strong></p> <ul> <li>Develop action-oriented insights to drive the product strategy through observational causal analysis and experiment meta-analysis, and clearly communicate results to stakeholders up to the C-suite to take action based on the recommendations</li> <li>Uplevel experimentation practices on the team through guiding design, execution, and deep dive analyses to maximize learnings from A/B tests</li> <li>Create new ETLs, tables, dashboards, and other self-serve tools to enable other data scientists and cross-functional partners to find and interact with data seamlessly</li> <li>Design, evaluate, and/or measure team-level KPIs to enable quarterly goal setting and demonstrate team impact</li> <li>Regularly engage with stakeholders to gather feedback and share progress on work at all stages to ensure alignment between DS and other teams on business goals and outcomes</li> <li>Mentor more junior data scientists and business partners in data science best practices and methods to increase data literacy and improve decision making</li> </ul> <p><strong>Required Qualifications:&nbsp;</strong></p> <ul> <li>Advanced degree (Masters or Ph.D.) in a quantitative field such as: Statistics, Mathematics, Physics, Economics, or Operations Research</li> <li>For M.S. holders: 5+ years of industry experience in applied science or data science roles</li> <li>For Ph.D. holders: 4+ years of industry experience in applied science or data science roles</li> <li>Expertise in querying relational databases (SQL) and programming languages (e.g., R / Python)</li> <li>Deep understanding of online experimentation (A/B testing), causal inference, and statistical techniques</li> <li>Comfortable in innovative and fast-paced environments, and a bias toward action</li> ... (truncated, view full listing at source)