Product Manager, Ecosystem Relevance

About the role

This role leads product strategy for Ecosystem Relevance at Reddit, covering cold start recommendations, content and community quality, and discovery across the platform. It suits product managers with consumer recommendation, discovery or personalization experience who can work closely with ML engineering and data science.

What you'll do

• Own the strategy for cold start recommendations, interest exploration, and early personalization so new users find value in their first sessions.
• Develop definitions, signals, and evaluation methods for content and community quality, including usefulness, originality, authenticity, and user feedback.
• Improve alignment between a community's focus, the content surfaced from it, and the interests and expectations of people discovering it.
• Identify opportunities for new, emerging, and niche content and communities to reach suitable audiences, and address exposure patterns that limit discovery.
• Partner with engineering on candidate selection, ranking, exploration, diversity, and repetition controls across relevant consumer experiences.
• Assess early retention, satisfaction, successful discovery, negative feedback, and downstream participation and community health.
• Combine behavioral analysis, research, and controlled experiments to prioritize a roadmap and deliver measurable improvements with partner teams.
• Lead, mentor, and develop other team members.

What you'll need

• Experience shipping consumer products in recommendations, discovery, search, personalization, growth, or community ecosystems.
• Strong product intuition for new users and an understanding of how early experiences influence retention and longer-term participation.
• Analytical depth to define metrics, interpret experiments, investigate heterogeneous effects, and distinguish short-term engagement gains from durable improvements.
• Fluency in recommendation systems and experience partnering with ML engineers and data scientists on signals, objectives, and evaluation.
• An understanding of ecosystem dynamics, including feedback loops, exposure allocation, content supply, and the relationship between audience growth and community health.
• The ability to turn concepts such as quality and community coherence into clear product requirements and measurable outcomes.
• Strong execution and cross-functional influence, with judgment to navigate tradeoffs among personalization, exploration, quality, and ecosystem health.

Benefits listed by Reddit

• Comprehensive healthcare benefits and income replacement programs
• 401(k) with employer match
• Global benefit programs covering workspace, professional development and caregiving support
• Family planning support
• Gender-affirming care
• Mental health and coaching benefits
• Flexible vacation and paid volunteer time off
• Paid parental leave
• Restricted stock units

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