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Reddit
Principal Data Scientist, User Ecosystem
Remote · United States$26,083–30,425 gross/mofull-timeReddit Careers
Reddit is a complex consumer ecosystem where users, content, communities, and conversations interact over time. We are looking for a very senior data science thought leader to shape how Reddit understands and improves that ecosystem for the user / consumer flywheel.
Responsibilities
- Set the scientific direction for high-impact Consumer problems spanning discovery, relevance, personalization, user growth, retention, content, and communities.
- Build a durable understanding of users, their intent, their needs, and the behaviors that lead to lasting value
- Develop models and frameworks that represent users, content, communities, and their relationships over time for use in systems that operate at scale
- Determine how to measure consumer and ecosystem health when objectives compete and short-term engagement may differ from long-term value.
- Set learning agendas and steer experimentation strategy to distinguish durable improvement from temporary metric movement.
- Build state-of-the-art measurement systems to evaluate heterogeneous effects across user personas, acquisition cohorts, platforms, content types, and community stages, and guide their actionability in production environments
- Ensure coherence around ecosystem interactions including feedback loops, selection effects, interference, distribution shift, content supply, and other ecosystem risks.
- Translate complex technical findings into clear product and business decisions.
- Develop exceptional scientists through mentoring and influence data science org health and direction
Languages
- Work format
- Remote
- Seniority
- Lead
- Posted
- 21 Oct 2026
- Last verified
- In the last 5 days
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