Machine Learning Manager - Ads Marketplace Quality

About the Role

Lead the vision and execution for Reddit's Ads Marketplace Quality, ensuring a balanced, high-quality user experience while driving massive business growth through sophisticated auction and delivery systems.

Responsibilities

• Set the vision and product strategy for ads quality and relevance within the marketplace.
• Optimize ads delivery and auction systems through utility function design and mathematical modeling.
• Own the execution of the team’s roadmap, ensuring consistent and predictable delivery of technical projects.
• Actively recruit, hire, and scale the Ads Marketplace Quality engineering team.
• Coach Tech Leads on project management and empower engineers for autonomous execution.
• Develop processes and tooling to continuously improve product and system quality, meeting SLAs.

Requirements

• Proven experience managing and developing engineering teams, including hiring and career planning.
• Deep technical expertise in online ads auctions, bidding, or closely related optimization domains.
• Strong business acumen and the ability to serve as a thought partner to product and upper management.
• Excellent written and verbal communication skills, capable of collaborating effectively in a fully-remote environment.
• Experience with data-driven decision-making processes.
• Technical depth sufficient to guide complex problem-solving within the team.

Role Impact

This role is critical to Reddit's primary business model, establishing the foundational economic principles for our rapidly growing Ads platform and ensuring relevance for our highly engaged user base.