Senior Data Scientist, Safety Insights New Remote - United States - Tbwa Chiat/Day Inc

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 82M+ daily active unique visitors, Reddit is one of the internet’s largest sources of information. For more information, visit redditinc.com.

[Location: remote-friendly or any office location - SF, LA, CHI, NY]

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Reddit is poised to rapidly innovate and grow like no other time in its history, and user safety is a critical accelerant of that growth. We are looking for a Senior Data Scientist to join our Safety Insights Data Science team, and lead strategic and product analytics for Reddit users’ on-platform safety experiences, as well as our safety signals foundation. You will partner with Consumer Safety and Safety Signals product and engineering teams, as well as user researchers and fellow Safety data scientists. Your impact will be in the forms of strategic influence, execution support, and org contributions to the data science function and the Safety Org.

The Safety Org is one of Reddit’s biggest divisions, and Safety Insights works across the entire org to provide qualitative (user research) and quantitative (data science) insights for product development, scaled abuse detection/mitigation, threat intelligence, and safety operations. We unravel hard problems that cut across safety domains, and guide product development to protect our users from bad experiences. In the Safety Insights team, we value asking who’s missing, surfacing the deeper questions, up-leveling our peers, and facilitating good conversations. Our job is tough, but the impact is huge.

Responsibilities:

• Use data to inform strategic directions of consumer safety and safety signals product development, and understand the impact of product launches;
• Tactically support product development, product launch and go-to-market;
• Derive user insights and problem insights from data, and partner with User Research to combine qualitative and quantitative evidence for better decision-making;
• Improve Safety Org’s logging/eventing, data warehouse, self-service analytics, and data practices.

Required Qualifications:

• 4+ years of data science and product analytics industry experience
• 2+ years of experience in product development focused on user experience; trust & safety experience is a bonus
• Proficiency with relational database (SQL), programming (Python), statistics, experimentation, and causal inference analyses
• Motivated and self-directed, demonstrated ability to innovate and bias toward action in fast-paced environments
• Ability to communicate and discuss complex topics with technical and non-technical audiences
• Ability to tackle ambiguous and undefined problems

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/.

The base pay range for this position is:

$190,800 - $267,100 USD

Reddit is proud to be an equal opportunity employer, and is committed to building a workforce representative of the diverse communities we serve.

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