# Staff Data Scientist, Consumer

**Company:** [Reddit](https://hotfix.jobs/companies/reddit)
**Location:** Remote
**Role:** Data Science
**Salary:** $217k – $304k/yr
**Experience:** 6+ years
**Skills:** SQL, Python, R, Statistics, Causal Inference, ETL, Experimentation, Data Analysis
**Posted:** 2026-02-09

> Staff Data Scientist guides Reddit's consumer product strategy using data insights, experimentation, and metrics to boost user engagement and retention. Requires advanced degree, 6-10+ years experience, SQL/Python expertise, and causal inference skills.

## Job Description

## Responsibilities
- Help build long-term product strategy by identifying opportunities to attract users, increase engagement, and drive retention
- Influence strategic roadmaps through data-driven insights into user behaviors and needs
- Design metrics to evaluate business health and product success, including ETL development
- Drive experimentation from design through execution and analysis
- Build self-serve tools for product and engineering partners
- Work cross-functionally with product, engineering, and design teams
- Scale work through mentoring junior data scientists and improving processes

## Required Qualifications
- Advanced degree (Master's or Ph.D.) in Statistics, Mathematics, Physics, Economics, or Operations Research
- For M.S.: 10+ years industry experience; for Ph.D.: 6+ years in applied/data science
- Expert SQL and relational databases
- Statistical analysis with R/Python
- Influence product strategy with data
- Solve ambiguous problems hypothesis-driven
- Causal inference techniques
- Excellent communication with leaders/stakeholders
- Mentoring and best practices

## Benefits
- Comprehensive healthcare and income replacement
- 401k with employer match
- Global benefits including professional development and caregiving
- Family planning and gender-affirming care
- Mental health support
- Flexible vacation and paid volunteer time
- Generous paid parental leave

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