Machine Learning Engineer, Advertiser Planning, Forecasting, and Recommendations

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.

As a company, Reddit primarily generates revenue through advertising, and we're working towards building a massive business to fund our mission. We distinguish ourselves from other digital ad platforms by attracting advertisers who want to connect with a specific target audience because of our passionate and engaged communities.

The Advertiser Planning, Forecasting and Recommendations team is responsible for building a suite of products that automate and enhance advertiser’s planning, buying experience as well as optimizing for advertiser value through traffic forecasting, bid recommendations, smart opportunities, creative automation, upsells and diagnostic tools. Some of the project highlights include:

• Driving automation and enhancement of advertiser experience at Reddit ads.
• Planning and forecasting based on real-time auction data, generating bid landscapes, reach, frequency, click and conversion volume estimates.
• Generate actionable insights and personalized recommendations throughout the lifecycle of a campaign that can be applied with the click of a button.
• Identify bid and budget upsell opportunities for daily active flights, and give advertisers actionable recommendations for boosting delivery results.
• Intelligent assistant to aid campaign creation including finding the right audiences to target, suggesting the right bid, budget, etc.

As a machine learning engineer in the Advertiser Planning, Forecasting and Recommendations team, you will work closely with technical leaders to build sophisticated machine learning based systems and applications to accurately predict the outcomes advertisers care about and guide them through actionable and insightful recommendations to elevate the performance of advertisers’ campaigns. 

You will play a key role in the entire development lifecycle, from initial design and implementation to data analysis, metric development, and ongoing monitoring. You will build intelligent applications and scalable systems to power advertiser automation and efficiency related efforts at Reddit. You will collaborate with cross-functional engineering, product, and marketing teams to ensure that our customers’ voices are represented in your work. 

We are seeking a highly skilled engineer to take a critical role in building state-of-the-art advertiser optimization systems. You will serve as a key contributor to some of the most impactful monetization systems at Reddit.

Your Responsibilities:

• Building Reddit-scale optimizations to improve advertiser outcomes using cutting-edge techniques in the industry.
• Leverage live auction data and novel machine learning techniques to generate insights and recommendations to boost revenue and advertiser value.
• Build scalable applications that automate and enhance advertiser buying experience. 
• Writing maintainable code, building robust data pipelines, machine learning models and conducting rigorous analyses.
• Contribute data-driven insight to projects in your space. We give everyone a seat at the table and encourage active participation in planning for the future.

Who You Might Be:

• 2+ years of contributing high-quality code to production systems that operate at scale.
• Experience working with streamed and real time data.
• Experienced partnering with both technical and non-technical stakeholders. 
• Experience working in online marketplaces or the ads domain is a plus.

Join us at Reddit, and help us build a community that is inclusive and empowering for everyone.

Benefits:

• Comprehensive Healthcare Benefits
• 401k Matching
• Workspace benefits for your home office
• Personal & Professional development funds
• Family Planning Support
• Flexible Vacation (please use them!) & Reddit Global Wellness Days
• 4+ months 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/.

To provide greater transparency to candidates, we share base pay ranges for all US-based job postings regardless of state. We set standard base pay ranges for all roles based on function, level, and country location, benchmarked against similar stage growth companies. Final offer amounts are determined by multiple factors including, skills, depth of work experience and relevant licenses/credentials, and may vary from the amounts listed below.

The base pay range for this position is:$147,500—$206,500 USD

Reddit is proud to be an equal opportunity employer, and is committed to building a workforce representative of the diverse communities we serve.  Reddit is committed to providing reasonable accommodations for qualified individuals with disabilities and disabled veterans in our job application procedures. If you need assistance or an accommodation due to a disability, please contact us at ApplicationAssistance@Reddit.com.