Staff Data Scientist, Marketing

Reddit
Ontario, San Francisco
Workplace: RemoteFull timeFunction: Data Science & Machine LearningExperience: 10+ yearsEducation: mastersSkills: ["Leadership","Influencing","Communication","Problem-solving","Mentoring"]

Lead the strategy and technical execution of Reddit’s Marketing Intelligence to measure and optimize marketing spend. Build MMM/MTA systems, advance causal inference, and bridge B2B and B2C growth while mentoring a team of scientists in a high-autonomy, high-impact setting.

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Staff Data Scientist, Marketing

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Job Summary

Lead the strategy and technical execution of Reddit’s Marketing Intelligence to measure and optimize marketing spend. Build MMM/MTA systems, advance causal inference, and bridge B2B and B2C growth while mentoring a team of scientists in a high-autonomy, high-impact setting.
Location: Ontario, San Francisco
Workplace: Remote
Employment Type: Full time
Job Function: Data Science & Machine Learning

Key Responsibilities

  • •Set Long-Term Marketing Strategy: Define the 2–3 year technical roadmap for marketing measurement and establish the North Star metrics and frameworks for budget allocation.
  • •Optimize Marketing ROI: Build and refine Media Mix Models (MMM) and Multi-Touch Attribution (MTA) systems to quantify incremental impact of marketing spend.
  • •Bridge B2B & B2C Growth: Design unified frameworks to optimize marketing for advertisers and new users, identifying synergies between brand and growth.
  • •Advance Causal Inference & Experimentation: Lead always-on incrementality testing and geo-holdout experiments; measure halo effects on organic growth.
  • •Lead Through Influence: Collaborate with Marketing, Growth, and Finance to translate insights into actionable budget shifts and mentor junior scientists.

Pay and Benefits

Perks:Medical BenefitsRetirementParental LeaveHealth Insurance

Key Requirements

  • •Advanced degree (Master’s or Ph.D.) in Statistics, Economics, Mathematics, or a related quantitative field.
  • •10+ years of industry experience in marketing science, growth data science, or econometrics (MS holders).
  • •6+ years of industry experience (Ph.D. holders).
  • •Deep understanding of MMM, Incrementality Testing, and Customer Lifetime Value (LTV) prediction.
  • •Advanced proficiency in Python or R and SQL; experience building production-grade data pipelines and using ML for predictive modeling (e.g., churn prediction, lead scoring).
Experience:10+ yearsMarketingData scienceEconometricsAdvertising
Education:Master's
Skills:LeadershipInfluencingCommunicationProblem-solvingMentoring
Languages:English
Tech Stack:PythonSQLRMarketing Mix ModelingMTAMMMCausal inference

Company Brief

Reddit
Operates Reddit, a large online community and discussion platform where users submit content, comment, and vote across topic-based communities (subreddits); monetizes via advertising, premium subscriptions, and awards.
Industry: Digital Media
Company Size: Enterprise (1,001+ employees)
Growth: Public Company
Valuation: Public Company (Market Cap in USD)
Funding: IPO / Publicly Listed
Headquarters: San Francisco, United States
Founded: 2005
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