SeniorDataScienceManager,Marketing
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“Senior Data Science Manager, Marketing at Reddit. Skills: leading data science teams, causal inference, experimentation, metric definition, product strategy, SQL, Python/R. 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”
What You'll Achieve.
scale Reddit’s marketing efforts; help product and marketing teams make data-driven, high-confidence decisions; maximize our value to consumers
Industry & Context.
technical problem-solving
What They're Looking For.
Must Have
5+ years of leadership experience as a people manager, leading a team of up to 10 data scientists, expertise in causal inference, A/B testing experimentation, metric definition and governance, product strategy, SQL proficiency, Python/R proficiency
Nice to Have
experience in driving product strategy and roadmaps through analytics, ideally for consumer technology products and marketplaces, led initiatives to enable analytics self-serve for cross-functional teams, 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
What You'll Do.
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
communicating and shaping the roadmap and strategy
identifying actionable and impactful insights
quantify the true incremental lift of marketing spend
prevent budget allocation on non-incremental channels
developing and deploying Incremental/Predictive LTV models
Oversee the establishment of measurement frameworks
evaluate Brand Initiatives
ensure consistent metrics are aligned across the organization for campaign quality and ROI
Drive the adoption of strategic and tactical recommendations
Take a keen interest in the collection and quality of underlying data
overseeing work on ETLs
and data aggregations needed for business tracking and/or ML model development
Lead initiatives to enable analytics self-serve capabilities for cross-functional teams
How You'll Work.
Team & Collaboration
Serve as a thought-partner to cross-functional leaders (Product, Engineering, Design, and Marketing); work side by side with your team when needed; collaborative attitude
Communication Scope
excel at communicating to both technical and non-technical people; ability to understand nuanced complex concepts and systems, and explain them simply
Full Job Description
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 126 million daily active unique visitors, Reddit is one of the internet’s largest sources of information. For more information, visit www.redditinc.com. At Reddit we continue to grow our teams with the best talent. We're completely remote friendly. Team Description: The Data Science Team at Reddit is expanding, and we are looking for an experienced leader to head a team of talented data scientists focused on the Marketing & Business Development domain. Our core mission is to evolve Marketing & BD Data Science from ad-hoc reporting to a strategic data science partnership that scales Reddit’s marketing efforts, and to help product and marketing teams make data-driven, high-confidence decisions. The team's work is centered around three strategic pillars: Data Foundations: Building and maintaining a canonical single source of truth for marketing performance and attribution, leveraging robust data foundations to power reliable campaign analyses, experimentation, and accurate Lifetime Value (LTV) modeling. Causal Measurement & Metrics: Ensuring consistent measurement of campaign quality and ROI by defining and deploying advanced causal decision frameworks and models. Decision-Making Insights: Functioning as a strategic partner to the Marketing organization, translating data into clear, actionable recommendations to guide budget allocation and identify high-value growth segments. Responsibilities: As a Data Science Senior Manager, you will lead a team that is crucial to Reddit's user growth strategy. You will: Lead and Develop: Build, lead, and mentor a high-performing team of data scientists focused on the Marketing & Business Development domain. Drive Strategy: Serve as a tho
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