Staff Product Manager, Ranking, Core Experience

Reddit is a community of communities. It’s built on shared interests, passion, and trust and is home to the most open and authentic conversations on the internet. Every day, Reddit users submit, vote, and comment on the topics they care most about. With 100,000+ active communities and approximately 97M+ daily active unique visitors, Reddit is one of the internet’s largest sources of information. For more information, visit redditinc.com.

Team Description: 

The Core Experience team is responsible for the holistic experience across Reddit platforms. Our mission is to create simple and modern experiences that appeal to everyone in the world. The Core Experience team owns on all of the major surfaces of Reddit such as: the feed, the video player, and the comments page and works on building end to end experiences that connect users to the value of Reddit. 

Role Description:

This PM will be responsible for the strategy and end-to-end execution of projects that integrate ranking and ML with the key parts of the Reddit core experience. This role is specifically critical to shaping the future of Reddit. Example projects include recommending related post posts for Reddit’s largest cohorts, understanding of video and media content, and ranking comments. There’s never been a better time to join Reddit and to impact the core surfaces that millions of users use daily. 

The Ranking Foundation team within Reddit’s Core Experience org was recently created to improve the relevance of ranking and recommendations in previously underserved surfaces on Reddit. We are looking for a Staff-level Product Manager who can uplevel the ranking and recommendations by creating clear strategy and impact-driving roadmaps. This person will have the opportunity to shape the team and build the right culture of experimentation, ML best practices, and execution – working with Machine Learning Engineers and Backend Engineers to create engaging and relevant surfaces.

Responsibilities:

• Define the strategy for the Ranking Foundation team and collaborate with ML engineering & consumer design to improve ranking models that will delight users and drive business outcomes
• Design and analyze ranking experiments with an emphasis on ML best practices
• Focus on upleveling our media recommendations via better content understanding and better ranking
• Seek to understand the competitive environment and maintain global awareness of unique user experiences specifically in regards to conversational experiences and how ML is enabling those experiences

Qualifications:

• You have at least 8+ years of product management experience with at least 2+ years in ranking/ML roles
• You have proven experience building product roadmaps, defining experiments and working collaboratively with design and engineering counterparts
• You have shipped ML-enabled consumer products end to end that have delivered meaningful business results
• You have strong analytical and problem solving skills, including a willingness to roll up your sleeves and dive into the minutia, and the ability to use SQL is a strong asset
• You have direct experience with ML models and deploying those models into product, measuring their success, and refining them with engineering teams 
• You know how to define team goals and success metrics and ensure that we are tracking towards improvements that align with Reddit's wider business objectives
• You are a compelling influencer with great communication and interpersonal skills with the ability to align a diverse group of stakeholders towards a common goal

Benefits:

• 100% remote (offices based in NY, SF & Chicago if you prefer hybrid/in office)
• Comprehensive Healthcare Benefits
• 401k Matching
• Workspace benefits for your home office
• Personal & Professional development funds
• Family Planning Support
• Flexible Vacation & Reddit Global Wellness Days
• 4+ months of paid Parental Leave 
• Paid Volunteer time off

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Pay Transparency:

This job posting may span more than one career level.

In addition to base salary, this job is eligible to receive equity in the form of restricted stock units, and depending on the position offered, it may also be eligible to receive a commission. Additionally, Reddit offers a wide range of benefits to U.S.-based employees, including medical, dental, and vision insurance, 401(k) program with employer match, generous time off for vacation, and parental leave. To learn more, please visit https://www.redditinc.com/careers/.

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The base pay range for this position is:$206,700—$289,400 USD

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