Staff Technical Product Manager, Ads ML Platform

Staff Technical Product Manager, Ads ML Platform

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About the Team

The Ads Marketplace team is a strategic growth engine for Reddit Ads. Our mission is to democratize high-performance advertising by enabling brands to achieve world-class results with minimal friction. This requires an incredibly robust, scalable, and state-of-the-art Machine Learning infrastructure. The Ads ML Platform team is at the core of this mission, building the foundation that powers all of our content understanding, ad targeting, and ad ranking models, empowering our ML engineers and data scientists to move faster and build smarter.

About the Role

As the Staff Product Manager for the Ads ML Platform, you will own the infrastructure and tools that make our ads marketplace intelligent. You will define the vision and build the roadmap for a platform that enables unparalleled engineering velocity and supports modern ML architectures. You will serve as the bridge between complex ML systems and business outcomes, directly accelerating the development and delivery of high-performance ad products. This role is ideal for individuals passionate about the intersection of platform engineering and state-of-the-art ML research.

Key Responsibilities

• Define the Vision: Shape the long-term strategy and roadmap for Reddit’s Ads ML platform, incorporating cutting-edge technologies like Generative AI and LLM workflows.
• Accelerate Velocity: Develop products and tooling to significantly reduce friction for Machine Learning Engineers (MLEs) and Data Scientists, enabling faster model training, deployment, and iteration.
• Cross-Functional Leadership: Collaborate closely with Engineering, Data Science, and Ads Product teams to understand needs, prioritize platform initiatives, and deliver scalable infrastructure.
• Drive Execution and Adoption: Own key performance indicators (KPIs) related to platform reliability, latency, cost-efficiency, usage metrics, and developer productivity.
• Stay Cutting-Edge: Monitor the broader ML ecosystem, research emerging architectures, and identify practical applications for Reddit’s Ads ML platform.
• Distill Pain Points: Conduct user research with MLEs to identify pain points and translate them into precise product requirements, ensuring alignment with the broader organizational vision.

Minimum Qualifications

• 7+ years of product management experience, with a focus on internal technical products, developer tools, data/ML platforms, and/or ads and content ranking.
• Deeply analytical and technical background, comfortable with complex data systems and the entire machine learning lifecycle (training, inference, deployment, monitoring).
• Genuine passion for machine learning and AI, with a commitment to staying informed on the latest research, industry trends, and architectures.
• Exceptional problem-solving skills, with the ability to translate technical constraints into actionable product roadmaps.
• Strong communication skills, capable of articulating technical requirements to business stakeholders and business goals to engineering teams.

Preferred Qualifications

• Prior experience as a Machine Learning Engineer, Data Scientist, or Backend Software Engineer.
• Understanding of the Ad Tech ecosystem (bidding, ranking, targeting).
• Experience implementing or managing systems supporting Generative AI/LLM workflows (e.g., Agentic automation, Prompt iteration, Fine-tuning, RAG).

What We Offer

• 100% remote opportunity (with office locations available in NY, SF, LA, and Chicago for hybrid/onsite preferences).
• Competitive salary and equity options.
• Comprehensive health benefits (medical, dental, vision) and workplace perks (e.g., home office setup stipend).
• Generous 401k matching.
• Flexible vacation policy.
• Paid parental leave (4+ months).
• Family planning support.
• Paid volunteer time off.

Base Salary Range: $217,000—$303,900 USD

Reddit is proud to be an equal opportunity employer and is committed to building a workforce representative of the diverse communities we serve. We are committed to providing reasonable accommodations for qualified individuals with disabilities.