Senior Data Science Manager, Marketing

Reddit is a community of communities, known for its open and authentic conversations on the internet. They are seeking a Senior Data Science Manager to lead a team focused on evolving Marketing & Business Development Data Science, driving data-driven decisions and insights to enhance marketing efforts.

Responsibilities:

• Build, lead, and mentor a high-performing team of data scientists focused on the Marketing & Business Development domain
• Serve as a thought-partner to cross-functional leaders (Product, Engineering, Design, and Marketing), communicating and shaping the roadmap and strategy for Reddit by identifying actionable and impactful insights
• Lead initiatives to quantify the true incremental lift of marketing spend and prevent budget allocation on non-incremental channels, including developing and deploying Incremental/Predictive LTV models
• Oversee the establishment of measurement frameworks (incl. effective experimental designs and/or Causal inference methods) to evaluate Brand Initiatives and ensure consistent metrics are aligned across the organization for campaign quality and ROI
• Drive the adoption of strategic and tactical recommendations based on deep product experience and data understanding to maximize our value to consumers
• Take a keen interest in the collection and quality of underlying data, including overseeing work on ETLs, reporting dashboards, and data aggregations needed for business tracking and/or ML model development
• Lead initiatives to enable analytics self-serve capabilities for cross-functional teams

Requirements:

• You have experience in driving product strategy and roadmaps through analytics, ideally for consumer technology products and marketplaces
• You built, led and developed high performing product analytics teams before: ideally 5+ years of leadership experience as a people manager, leading a team of up to 10 data scientists
• Teams you have led had expertise in causal inference, A/B testing experimentation, metric definition and governance, and product strategy
• You have led initiatives to enable analytics self serve for cross-functional teams
• You excel at communicating to both technical and non-technical people
• You have an ability to understand nuanced complex concepts and systems, and explain them simply
• You are proficient in SQL and Python/R for hands-on analysis. You can roll up your sleeves and work side by side with your team when needed
• You have experience in leveraging AI-assisted development tools (e.g., Cursor, Claude, or similar LLMs) to improve personal and team productivity, code quality, and technical problem-solving
• You have a collaborative attitude and natural curiosity and strong evidence-backed product opinions