
Senior Data Scientist
Remote · USFull-time$229–267K/yrPosted todayStill listed today
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Job overview
Reddit seeks a Senior Data Scientist to develop product-strategy insights, strengthen experimentation practices, and build data tools for data scientists and cross-functional partners. The role also measures team performance, aligns stakeholders on business goals, and mentors colleagues in data science methods. Full-time telecommuting is an option. Candidates need a qualifying quantitative degree and related experience through one of two education-and-experience paths.
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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 130 million daily active unique visitors, Reddit is one of the internet’s largest sources of information. For more information, visit www.redditinc.com.
Job Duties: Develop action-oriented insights to drive the product strategy through observational causal analysis and experiment meta analysis, and clearly communicate results to stakeholders up to the Csuite to take action based on the recommendations. Uplevel experimentation practices on the team through guiding design, execution, and deep dive analyses to maximize learnings from AB tests. Create new ETLs, tables, dashboards, and other self-serve tools to enable other data scientists and cross-functional partners to find and interact with data seamlessly. Design, evaluate, and/or measure team level KPIs to enable quarterly goal setting and demonstrate team impact. Regularly engage with stakeholders to gather feedback and share progress on work at all stages to ensure alignment between DS and other teams on business goals and outcomes. Mentor more junior data scientists and business partners in data science best practices and methods to increase data literacy and improve decision making. Full-time telecommuting is an option.
Requirements: Master’s degree, or its foreign degree equivalent, in Data Science, Statistics, Machine Learning, Operations Research, Economics, Computer Science, Engineering (any field), or a related quantitative discipline and two (2) years of experience in the job offered or in any occupation in related field OR Bachelor’s degree, or its foreign degree equivalent, in Data Science, Statistics, Machine Learning, Operations Research, Economics, Computer Science, Engineering (any field), or a related quantitative discipline and five (5) years of progressively responsible experience in the job offered or in any occupation in related field.
Special Skill Requirements: (1) A/B Testing & Experimentation Design; (2) Causal Inference & Incrementality Measurement; (3) Statistical Modeling & Data Analysis; (4) ETL Development and maintenance; (5) KPI Design and Goal Setting; (6) Cross – Functional collaboration; (7) Data Visualization and Reporting; (8) Python and SQL; (9) Machine Learning and predictive modeling. Any suitable combination of education, training and/or experience is acceptable. Full-time telecommuting is an option.
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Comprehensive Healthcare Benefits and Income Replacement Programs
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401k with Employer Match
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Global Benefit programs that fit your lifestyle, from workspace to professional development to caregiving support
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Family Planning Support
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Gender-Affirming Care
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Mental Health & Coaching Benefits
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Flexible Vacation & Paid Volunteer Time Off
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Generous Paid Parental Leave
Submit a resume with references using the apply button on this posting or by email at: [email protected] at Req.# 1016.244.3.
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: $229,000.00 - $267,100.00 USD
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How this job compares
Set against the 5,012 open Data Scientist jobs on Olive Jobs, counted November 6, 2026.
- Pay
- This posting$229–267K/yr
- California median$156–236K/yr692 salary ranges
- US median$135–212K/yr3,850 salary ranges
This range's midpoint, $248K, is 24% above the California median midpoint ($200K) — in the top quarter of Data Scientist salary ranges in California.
- Openings
- Olive Jobs lists 833 open Data Scientist jobs in California and 5,012 across the US. 6% of them nationwide are listed as remote or flexible.
- Experience
- This posting asks for at least 2 years of experience — less than three in four Data Scientist postings that state a minimum ask for (median 5 years, across 4,316 postings).
- Education
- 2,438 of the 5,012 open Data Scientist jobs (49%) ask for a bachelor's degree or higher.
Counted across the open, public US postings on Olive Jobs on November 6, 2026. Pay medians are the middle values of the low ends and of the high ends of postings that list both ends of a range in the same cadence (a yearly salary or an hourly rate); a range's midpoint is halfway between its ends. Pay and experience figures resting on fewer than 20 postings are left out.
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