Machine Learning Engineering Manager, Ads Conversion Modeling
Quick summary
- Work type
- Remote
- Location
- Remote
- Salary
- $230,000–$322,000 / yr
- Posted
- 151 days ago
- Freshness
- Confirmed live 2 days ago
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Salary context
How this pay compares to similar roles
This role pays more than 84% of similar roles. Most pay $194,125–$260,554 — the shaded band above. At the midpoint, this role pays about $276k versus about $227k for comparable roles.
Based on 240 similar postings.
Employer
About Reddit
Reddit is a social news aggregation and discussion platform where users share content, vote on posts, and engage in community conversations across thousands of interest-based forums called subreddits.
Reddit currently has 77 open roles on FindRole.
Listed pay typically runs $217,000–$303,400 across 77 roles with salary data.
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At a glance
TL;DR · Machine Learning Engineering Manager, Ads Conversion Modeling
Ads Conversion Modeling, Machine Learning Engineering Manager leads a critical team focused on developing and maintaining machine learning models that drive user conversions from Reddit Ads. The role involves building predictive models for actions like purchases, signups, and add-to-carts while managing the end-to-end model lifecycle from ideation to production deployment. This manager will define technical roadmaps, mentor a high-performing team of engineers, and collaborate with cross-functional partners in product and data science. Key responsibilities include architecting deep learning models for ranking and recommendation systems and orchestrating large-scale data processing pipelines. The ideal candidate possesses expertise in TensorFlow or PyTorch, experience with heavy ranker systems, and knowledge of how ranking models interact with bidding and auction systems. This role solves the technical challenge of advancing lower funnel conversion modeling within a complex advertising ecosystem.
Skills
What you'll do
- Define and execute a long-term technical roadmap for conversion modeling aligned with business objectives.
- Lead the end-to-end machine learning lifecycle from initial ideation through to production deployment.
- Architect and implement deep learning models for ranking, recommendation, and conversion prediction.
- Manage, mentor, and recruit high-performing engineering talent within the machine learning domain.
- Oversee large-scale data generation and processing pipelines to support model training and evaluation.
- Partner with cross-functional teams like Product Management and Data Science to align on engagement strategies.
- Optimize complex model architectures using frameworks like TensorFlow or PyTorch for the ads ecosystem.
What we're looking for
- Experience building and managing high-performing machine learning teams or as a technical lead.
- Deep hands-on experience training, evaluating, and deploying large-scale machine learning models in production systems.
- Expertise in ranking, recommendation, and conversion modeling architectures using deep learning.
- Proficiency with mainstream machine learning libraries such as TensorFlow and PyTorch.
- Experience orchestrating large-scale data generation and processing pipelines.
- Technical knowledge of how ranking models interact with ads systems like bidding, auction, and retrieval.
- Ability to develop and communicate a clear technical strategy aligned with business objectives.
- Strong interpersonal skills to collaborate with cross-functional partners including product managers and data scientists.
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