Staff Data Scientist Ad Formats Optimization Analytics at Reddit

Location: US remote friendly
Reddit is continuing to grow our teams with the best talent. This role is completely remote friendly and will continue to be after the pandemic. 
Advertising is Reddit’s primary revenue driver and we have an ambitious goal to turn it into a massive business. Although several large digital ad platforms already exist, advertisers are being increasingly drawn to Reddit because of our passionate communities. We believe our community-centric platform has created the opportunity for Reddit to build a highly differentiated ads business.
We are looking for a results-oriented and strategically minded Product Data Scientist to work with our Ads Formats & Optimization product team on launching new products to improve the Ads user experience and launch new innovative formats to draw more advertisers to the Reddit ads platform. You will partner closely with cross functional team members such as Product Managers, Engineers, Designers, etc. in utilizing data to drive product strategy and unlock novel ways to improve the advertiser experience.  
If helping Reddit’s advertising business reach the next level excites you, then you’ve found the right place.  We’re a company with one of the highest employee : user ratios in the industry, giving you a tremendous opportunity for both scope & impact.
How You'll Have Impact:

Partner with the product engineering team working on Reddit’s Ads Formats & Optimization team. Providing thought partnership on projects ranging from… 

Identifying and opportunity sizing new, innovative ad formats 
Improving existing ad formats through rapid experimentation
Researching new product surfaces ready for ads monetization

Collaborate with product teams on all aspects of development - everything from product ideation to experiment analysis to KPI reporting
Drive product-oriented research projects to identify new opportunities for the Ads Platform team to pursue
Organize data by designing table schemas, data pipelines, aggregations, alerts and general data infrastructure for the ads organization.
Be an integral part of the Data Org (consisting of Data Science, Data Engineering, Experimentation, and Core ML), leveraging and contributing to the vibrant knowledge base, shared across a community of world-class data experts.

Responsibilities:

Act as an owner by partnering with the Ads Formats & Optimization team on product development
Become an expert on users’ ads experiences on Reddit - designing & analyzing experiments to test improvements to our platform
Build KPI reporting & ETLs to track the performance of Reddit’s Ads Formats & Optimizations team 
Learn how Advertisers interact with the Reddit platform and research how their experience could be improved 
Collaborate with Product Marketing Managers to develop go to market strategies and drive product adoption
Partner with the Ads Engineering team to understand new data & schemas and ensure the data we log in new products is accurate

Required Qualifications:

5+ years of experience in data analytics or related quantitative role
Influence and guide product strategy with data
Able to take ambiguous problems and solve them in a structured, hypothesis-driven, data-supported way
Desire to mentor other data scientists and share best practices to elevate the data science practice at Reddit
Strong ability to communicate and discuss complex topics with technical & non-technical audiences
Proficiency with relational database (e.g., SQL) and statistical analysis/programming languages (e.g., R / Python)
Proficiency with dashboarding tools (e.g. Mode Analytics, Tableau, Looker)
Experience in online advertising & ads marketplaces or in UX experimentation

Benefits:

Comprehensive Health benefits
401k Matching 
Workspace benefits for your home office
Personal & Professional development funds
Family Planning Support
Flexible Vacation & Reddit Global Days Off
4+ months paid Parental Leave  
Paid Volunteer time off

Pay Transparency:
This job posting may span more than one career level.
In addition to base salary, this job is eligible to receive equity in the form of restricted stock units, and depending on the position offered, it may also be eligible to receive a commission. Additionally, Reddit offers a wide range of benefits to U.S.-based employees, including medical, dental, and vision insurance, 401(k) program with employer match, generous time off for vacation, and parental leave. To learn more, please visit https://www.redditinc.com/careers/.
To provide greater transparency to candidates, we share base pay ranges for all US-based job postings regardless of state. We set standard base pay ranges for all roles based on function, level, and country location, benchmarked against similar stage growth companies. Final offer amounts are determined by multiple factors including, skills, depth of work experience and relevant licenses/credentials, and may vary from the amounts listed below.
The base pay range for this position is: $183,500 - $275,300.
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