# Staff Data Scientist, Consumer

**Company**: Reddit
**Location**: Remote - Ontario, Canada
**Work arrangement**: remote
**Experience**: staff
**Job type**: full-time
**Category**: Engineering
**Industry**: Technology

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## Description

We're looking for a Staff Data Scientist to join our Consumer Data Science team. As a Staff Data Scientist, you will play an influential role in guiding product strategy through proactively identifying opportunities, conducting exploratory analyses and sharing insights, and driving learning through experimentation.

Responsibilities:

- Help build the long-term product strategy by identifying opportunities to attract new users, increase engagement, and drive retention

- Influence strategic roadmaps through data-driven insights into user behaviours and needs

- Design metrics that help evaluate the health of the business and the success of our products, including any ETL development needed for consistent and robust analysis

- Drive experimentation from design through execution and analysis to maximise learnings and guide future investment decisions

- Build self-serve tools for product and engineering partners that answer common questions and/or increase data literacy in the organisation

- Work cross-functionally with product, engineering, and design teams to ensure insights make it to the product

- Scale your work to other parts of the data organisation through mentoring more junior data scientists, improving processes, and providing perspective on the most important problems

Required Qualifications:

- Advanced degree (Master's or Ph.D.) in Statistics, Mathematics, Physics, Economics, or Operations Research

- For M.S. holders: 10+ years of industry experience in applied science or data science roles

- For Ph.D. holders: 6+ years of industry experience in applied science or data science roles

- Expert knowledge of SQL and relational databases

- Familiarity with statistical analysis and the preferred programming languages of the team (R / Python)

- Demonstrated ability to influence and guide product strategy with data

- Demonstrated ability to take ambiguous problems and solve them in a structured, hypothesis-driven, data-supported way

- Familiarity with causal inference techniques and causal models

- Excellent communication and experience working with senior leaders / stakeholders

- Entrepreneurial, self-directed, and enthusiastic about solving problems

- Demonstrated ability to mentor other data scientists and share best practices to elevate the data science practice at Reddit

- Conform in innovative and fast-paced environments, and have a bias toward action.

Benefits:

- Global Benefit programs that fit your lifestyle, from workspace to professional development to caregiving support

- Family Planning Support

- Gender-Affirming Care

- Mental Health & Coaching Benefits

- Comprehensive Medical Benefits & Health Care Spending Account

- Registered Retirement Savings Plan with matching contributions

- Income Replacement Programs

- Flexible Vacation & Paid Volunteer Time Off

- Generous Paid Parental Leave

## Skills

### Required
- SQL
- relational databases
- statistical analysis
- R
- Python
- causal inference techniques
- causal models

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