Job Description

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 101M+ daily active unique visitors, Reddit is one of the internet's largest sources of information. For more information, visit .
Reddit Ads is one of the fastest growing ads platforms on the web. The Manager of Ads Marketplace Quality will play a leading role in shaping Reddit's ads auctions to ensure a great user experience with relevant ads; to help the business grow; and to establish foundational economic principles for our org.
Candidates for this role should have management experience and experience executing on complex Ads projects involving both math (auctions/bidding/optimization) and serving infrastructure.
Who we are
Advertising is Reddit's primary business model and we have an ambitious goal to turn it into a massive business to fund Reddit's mission to bring community and belonging to everyone in the world. Although several large digital ad platforms already exist, advertisers are being increasingly drawn to Reddit because of our passionate communities that drive action. This large number of self-governed communities have highly-engaged users who are in an unduplicated mindset of consuming relevant information. This has created the opportunity for Reddit to build a massive and highly differentiated ads business.
Reddit is continuing to grow our teams with the best talent. We're .
As the Engineering Manager of the Ads Marketplace Quality team. You will work closely with Product owners, Data Scientists, and other Engineering stakeholders from our Ads team to * Set up the vision and product strategy of ads quality and relevance

• Optimize ads delivery and auction systems through utility function design
• Measure various marketplace tradeoffs.

This person is an industry leader in the online ads marketplace optimization domain with a solid technical background, strong business acumen, and excellent cross-functional stakeholders management skills.
What You'll Do
Ads Marketplace Quality Technical Vision
Your primary mission will be to build the auction/ranking platform for Ads Marketplace Quality that can scale with our ads business over the next several years. There is plenty of room for guiding and setting technical vision that will have a huge impact on our business.
Execution
You will own the execution of your team's roadmap and be accountable for consistent, predictable delivery. You will ruthlessly prioritize both planned projects and emergent asks. You will coach Tech Leads on project management and empower your team to execute autonomously. You will identify risks and proactively communicate them both internally and externally.
Recruiting
Ads Marketplace Quality will grow quickly during your tenure at Reddit, and our engineering managers are directly responsible for scaling up their teams. You will identify your team's needs, write job descriptions, source, interview, and help close candidates. You will have the support of our incredible recruiting team to bring diverse and talented engineers into Reddit.
Career Development
You will help your engineers identify career goals and create development plans to achieve them. You will constantly seek opportunities to push your engineers outside their comfort zone and turn followers into leaders.
Quality Control
You will work with your team to develop processes and tooling that constantly improve the quality of our products and systems, ensuring that they meet product requirements, customer needs, and SLAs.
Organizational Alignment
You will serve as a thought partner to product and upper management to ensure your team's plans align with company goals. You will become an expert in the digital ads business and our customer needs. You will participate in and challenge prioritization decisions. You will communicate your team's work and set expectations with external stakeholders.
Qualifications

• Experience managing a team including hiring, onboarding, and professional development
• You're technical, enough to solve almost any problem your team has yourself, but you prefer to guide your team into solving them
• Excellent written and verbal communication skills. You must be able to collaborate effectively with teams in a fully-remote environment and discuss complex topics with technical and non-technical audiences
• Experience with data driven/informed decision making
• Technical expertise in Ads auctions or closely related domains (eg online ads bidding and optimization)

Benefits:

• Comprehensive Health benefits
• Registered Retirement Savings plan with matching contributions
• Income Replacement Programs
• Family Planning Support
• Gender-Affirming Care
• Mental Health & Coaching Benefits
• Flexible Vacation & Reddit Global Days Off

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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, due to a disability, you need an accommodation during the interview process, please let your recruiter know.

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