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Posted May 20Staff Data Scientist, Safety Insights
at Redditinc
United StatesRemote
Responsibilities
- Lead the measurement strategy for user safety by defining metrics, frameworks, and dashboards that quantify and monitor safety experiences across Reddit.
- Design and execute experiments and quasi-experimental / inferential causal analyses (e.g., difference-in-differences, synthetic controls, matching) to estimate the impact and ROI of safety initiatives, and use these results for opportunity sizing and prioritization.
- Own the design, development, and maintenance of scalable models and prototypes leveraging statistical, machine learning, or GenAI methodologies to improve Reddit safety.
- Tactically support product development and go-to-market, from problem framing and exploratory analysis through to experimentation, launch evaluation, and post-launch monitoring.
- Mentor and up-level junior Data Scientists and Analysts in technical approaches for detecting and mitigating abuse, fostering a culture of rigor and curiosity. Required
Requirements
- With 100,000+ active communities and approximately 126 million daily active unique visitors, Reddit is one of the internet’s largest sources of information.
- In this role, you will partner closely with Safety Product, Engineering, and Machine Learning teams along with fellow Safety data scientists, to shape strategy, product development, define and evolve safety metrics, and drive analytics for some of the most important decisions in the Safety org.
- experience at scale. Your work will guide decision-making and shape the strategic direction of Reddit’s safety efforts, ensuring that user safety remains a cornerstone of Reddit’s growth.
- Reddit has a remote-friendly work environment.
- Don’t live near an office? You can apply to work remotely from anywhere in the United States. Responsibilities:
- Stay current on advances in ML, LLMs, and related methods, and evaluate where they can meaningfully improve abuse detection, risk identification, and enforcement workflows.
- Relevant experiences in Data Science, Applied Science, or Economist roles, preferably for safety, enforcement engineering, fraud etc.
- Ph.D. or M.S. degree in Statistics, Economics, Computer Science, Applied Mathematics or other quantitative fields (If M.S., a minimum of 8+ years of industry data science
- experience required; If PhD degree, a minimum of 4+ years of industry data science experience required)
- Fluent with statistical analysis, programming languages (e.g., Python) and SQL.
- Comfortable in innovative and fast-paced environments, and an innate ability to bias toward action
- Strong technical communication and demonstrated ability to discuss complex topics with technical and non-technical audiences alike
- Additionally, Reddit offers a wide range of
- In select roles and locations, the interviews will be recorded, transcribed and summarized by artificial intelligence (AI).
Benefits
- Benefits and Income Replacement Programs
- 401k with Employer Match
- Gender-Affirming Care
- Flexible Vacation & Paid Volunteer Time Off
- Generous Paid Parental Leave #LI-SP1 Pay Transparency:
- 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.
- 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 provide greater transparency to candidates, we share base salary ranges for all US-based job postings regardless of state.
- We set standard base pay ranges for all roles based on function, level, and country location, benchmarked against similar stage growth companies.
- The base salary range for this position is: $217,000 — $303,900 USD
Contact
- For more information, visit www.redditinc.com .
- To learn more, please visit https://www.redditinc.com/careers/ .
Additional details
- It’s built on shared interests, passion, and trust, and is home to the most open and authentic conversations on the internet.
- This role is completely remote friendly within the United States.
- If you happen to live close to one of our physical office locations (San Francisco, Los Angeles, New York City & Chicago) our doors are open for you to come into the office as often as you'd like.
- The Safety org is Reddit’s central Trust & Safety organization whose mission is to protect good users from bad experiences by stopping harmful content and behaviors across the site.
- You will identify and prioritize opportunities for innovation, using rigorous analyses to size the potential impact of new initiatives and help the organization focus on the highest ROI areas to improve the safety
- The Safety org is one of Reddit’s largest divisions.
- Safety Insights works horizontally across it to provide scientific insight for product development, scaled abuse detection and mitigation, threat intelligence, and safety operations.
- We think big to innovate, unravel hard problems that cut across safety domains, and guide product development to protect our users from bad experiences while supporting Reddit’s long-term health and growth.
- If you live near one of our physical offices, our doors are open for you to come in as often as you’d like.
- Use data and science-backed methods to inform the strategic direction of Safety product development and to rigorously assess the impact of product launches and policy or enforcement changes.