Senior Director of Data Science
United States Posted September 28, 2026
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Salary Range
$317,000 - $443,800
Job Description
Join Reddit as a Senior Director of Data Science, where you will partner with senior leaders across various functions to define company-level priorities and tradeoffs. You will set the data science strategy for Reddit's feed, recommendation, search, retrieval, and ranking systems, and establish a measurement and experimentation framework for relevance optimization. You will also translate complex user and community behavior into clear insights that improve product strategy and consumer outcomes. Additionally, you will build multi-team roadmaps, recruit and develop exceptional leaders, and represent Reddit as a thought leader in the industry.
- Collaborer avec les dirigeants seniors pour définir les priorités et les compromis au niveau de l'entreprise.
- Établir la stratégie de science des données pour les systèmes de fil, de recommandation, de recherche, de récupération et de classement.
- Mettre en place le cadre de mesure et d'expérimentation pour l'optimisation de la pertinence, y compris l'évaluation hors ligne et l'expérimentation en ligne.
- Senior leadership experience leading multi-team or multi-pillar organizations and delivering attributable business impact through durable roadmaps, operating mechanisms, and long-range bets
- Proven ability to connect model and system improvements to consumer value, content quality, trust, diversity, healthy participation, and long-term business outcomes—not only short-term engagement metrics
- Deep data science expertise in measurement, experimentation, causal inference, ML, data platforms, and analytical systems, with the technical judgment to set company-scale standards
- Proven organization builder with a track record of recruiting and retaining exceptional senior leaders, developing Directors and managers, and creating a healthy, high-trust leadership bench
- Experience in UGC or community ecosystems and a strong point of view on how data science can improve consumer experiences while protecting analytical quality, privacy, and responsible AI practices
- Exceptional communication and influence with experience aligning senior product, engineering, and business leaders; resolving conflict; and communicating uncertainty, risks, and tradeoffs with intellectual honesty
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