Senior Data Scientist - SMB Growth

Location: US remote-friendly

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 Senior Data Scientist to work with our Growth Marketing team to help us accelerate our advertiser growth and understand our paid marketing efforts. This role will partner closely with several cross-functional partners such as the business marketing team and the ads product team to analyze the effectiveness of marketing & advertiser growth programs.

Reddit is continuing to grow our teams with the best talent. We're completely remote friendly and will continue to be after the pandemic.

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.

Responsibilities

• Work closely with cross-functional teams such as product marketing and business development to model analyze and influence the impact of multiple marketing tactics

• Develop dashboards to analyze marketing spend performance and return on investment

• Drive research investigations to understand the behavior of advertisers acquired through different paid marketing channels

• Develop an advertiser segmentation to help us understand how to better quantify customer needs and workflows

• Stand up lifetime value models to estimate the value of advertisers acquired through paid marketing

• Conduct in-depth post-campaign analysis or set up experiments to help the team understand performance and opportunities for improved targeting.

• 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.

Required Qualifications

• 5+ years of experience in quantitative analytical roles preferably for an ads marketing team

• Proficiency with relational database (e.g. SQL)

• Familiarity with statistical analysis and programming languages (e.g. R / Python)

• Results-oriented with a strong customer and business focus

• Entrepreneurial 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

Our Commitment to DEI At Reddit we evaluate all candidates on the basis of their ability to meet stated job requirements. We do not discriminate against candidates on the basis of sex gender marital status religion nationality or other personal characteristics. In keeping with our commitment to supporting a safe and inclusive workplace we strongly encourage candidates from traditionally underrepresented backgrounds to apply.

Benefits:

• Comprehensive Health benefits

• 401k Matching

• Workspace benefits for your home office

• Personal & Professional development funds

• Family Planning Support

• Flexible Vacation (please use them!) & Reddit Global Days Off

• 4+ months paid Parental Leave

• Paid Volunteer time off

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