Senior Data Science Manager, Safety & Mods

About the Role

Lead a team of talented data scientists dedicated to making Reddit the safest and best-moderated platform globally by driving strategic insights and initiatives within Trust & Safety.

Responsibilities

• Directly lead, mentor, and grow a team of data scientists supporting Safety & Moderation organizations.
• Serve as a thought leader, leveraging deep domain expertise to guide strategy in the evolving ML/LLM landscape.
• Drive adoption of strategic and tactical recommendations based on deep product understanding and data analysis to maximize value for Reddit consumers.
• Act as a thought partner to leadership, shaping the roadmap and strategy for Safety & Moderation through actionable insights.
• Be involved in all phases of enforcement strategy and product development, including ideation, exploratory analysis, metrics design, modeling, experimentation, and post-launch monitoring.
• Maintain a keen interest in data quality, ETL processes, reporting dashboards, and data aggregations necessary for business tracking and ML development.

Requirements

• Proven success building, leading, and developing high-performing product analytics and modeling teams (ideally 5+ years of leadership, managing 5+ data scientists).
• Track record of driving Trust & Safety product strategy and roadmaps through analytics, especially for consumer technology products.
• Demonstrated expertise in leading teams focused on causal inference, A/B testing experimentation, metric definition, and product strategy development.
• Experience overseeing ML/LLM development or evaluation processes.
• Proficiency in SQL and Python/R for hands-on data analysis, including working side-by-side with data teams.
• Skilled communicator, capable of effectively engaging both highly technical and non-technical audiences.

Nice-to-Haves

• Track record of leading initiatives that enable analytics self-serve capabilities for cross-functional teams.
• Ability to translate nuanced complex concepts and systems into simple, easily understandable terms.

Role Impact

This role is critical in collaborating with cross-functional partners (Product, Engineering, Design, Enforcement) to build and improve the core systems that ensure a safe and positive environment for Reddit's massive global community.