Staff Product Manager, Moderation

Reddit

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Remote

Quick summary

Work type
Remote
Location
San Francisco, CA
Salary
$217,000–$303,900 / yr
Posted
4 days ago
Freshness
Confirmed live yesterday

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Salary context

Above market

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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 82 open roles on FindRole.

Listed pay typically runs $194,600–$272,400 across 82 roles with salary data.

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TL;DR · Staff Product Manager, Moderation

The Staff Product Manager, Moderation joins the team to lead zero-to-one product work focused on evolving community enforcement from reactive manual tasks into proactive, intelligent systems. This role involves defining a clear product strategy and roadmap to support moderators and maintain healthy community dynamics globally. Key responsibilities include building LLM-powered moderation experiences, defining success metrics, and reasoning about AI/ML quality factors like precision, recall, latency, and failure modes. The successful candidate will partner with Engineering, Data Science, Design, and Safety teams to navigate high-stakes ecosystem tradeoffs involving user trust and safety. Required skills include staff-level product experience, fluency in model evaluation, and strong analytical judgment. The work addresses the technical and business challenge of scaling community governance through advanced machine learning and automated moderation paradigms.

What does a Product Manager earn in California?

Median $221750 from 318 postings across 58 companies.

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What you'll do

  • Identify high-impact opportunities to evolve community enforcement and moderator workflows into a clear product strategy.
  • Lead zero-to-one development of LLM-powered moderation experiences to scale healthy communities globally.
  • Translate insights about moderator behavior and community dynamics into high-quality product experiences.
  • Define success metrics and model evaluation criteria connecting user value to community health.
  • Reason about AI/ML quality metrics including precision, recall, latency, and human feedback loops.
  • Assess ecosystem tradeoffs across community health, moderator trust, safety, and product quality.
  • Communicate strategy, decisions, and technical tradeoffs clearly to executive stakeholders.

What we're looking for

  • Staff-level product experience owning meaningful consumer surfaces or systems with measurable user impact.
  • Exceptional product sense across user intuition, problem framing, prioritization, UX judgment, and product taste.
  • Track record leading ambiguous zero-to-one or major product-evolution work from strategy through launch and learning.
  • Experience building AI/ML-powered products with fluency in model evaluation and product/model tradeoffs.
  • Strong analytical judgment, including defining metrics, interpreting evidence, and changing direction when needed.
  • Excellent cross-functional leadership with Engineering, Data Science/ML, Design, and Safety teams in technically complex spaces.
  • Experience with community, social, creator, UGC, trust/safety, or moderation products (preferred).
  • Experience with ML-heavy consumer surfaces or policy-sensitive AI experiences (preferred).

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