Staff Product Manager, Moderation

<div class="content-intro"><div class="c-message_kit__blocks c-message_kit__blocks--rich_text"> <div class="c-message__message_blocks c-message__message_blocks--rich_text" data-qa="message-text"> <div class="p-block_kit_renderer" data-qa="block-kit-renderer"> <div class="p-block_kit_renderer__block_wrapper p-block_kit_renderer__block_wrapper--first"> <div class="p-rich_text_block"> <div class="p-rich_text_section">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 130 million daily active unique visitors, Reddit is one of the internet’s largest sources of information. For more information, visit <a class="c-link" href="http://www.redditinc.com/" target="_blank" data-stringify-link="http://redditinc.com" data-sk="tooltip_parent">www.redditinc.com</a>.</div> </div> </div> </div> </div> </div></div><p><span style="font-size: 12pt;"><strong>What You'll Do:</strong></span></p> <p>Reddit is a community of communities, built around the conversations, interests, and experiences people share with one another. Moderators are the heart of that ecosystem: they shape community norms, keep spaces healthy, and help communities grow.</p> <p>As Reddit continues to scale globally, this role will help define how we support moderators, reduce the burden of running healthy communities, and evolve moderation from reactive manual work into proactive, intelligent systems.</p> <p>We are looking for a Staff Product Manager to help define the future of moderation on Reddit. This is a rare opportunity to lead zero-to-one product work at the intersection of user-facing experience, community governance, and cutting-edge LLM systems. You will help Reddit move beyond legacy moderation approaches toward proactive, intelligent, and scalable community enforcement.</p> <p>This role is for a PM with exceptional product judgment, strong user intuition, and enough AI/ML depth to partner closely with Engineering, Data Science, Design, and Safety. The right person can shape compelling user experiences, reason about model quality and tradeoffs, and create clarity in a high-stakes, high-visibility space where the product, technical, and ecosystem decisions all matter.</p> <h3><strong>Responsibilities</strong></h3> <ul> <li>Identify Reddit’s highest-impact opportunities to evolve evolve community enforcement and moderator workflows, and turn them into a clear product strategy and roadmap.</li> <li>Lead zero-to-one development of LLM-powered moderation experiences that are critical to how Reddit scales healthy communities globally.</li> <li>Build a deep understanding of moderators, community members, and healthy community dynamics, and translate those insights into high-quality product experiences.</li> <li>Define success metrics and model/product evaluation criteria that connect user value, community health, and Reddit’s broader strategy.</li> <li>Reason about AI/ML quality, including precision, recall, error costs, coverage, latency, failure modes, human review, and feedback loops.</li> <li>Assess high-stakes ecosystem tradeoffs across community health, moderator trust, user trust, safety, and product quality.</li> <li>Partner with Engineering, Data Science/ML, Design, Safety, Consumer, and senior leaders to drive execution in a highly visible company priority.</li> <li>Communicate strategy, decisions, tradeoffs, and learning clearly to executive stakeholders.</li> </ul> <h3><strong>Must Haves:</strong></h3> <ul> <li>Staff-level product experience owning meaningful consumer surfaces or systems with measurable user impact.</li> <li>Exceptional product sense across user intuition, problem framing, prioritization, UX judgment, and product taste.</li> <li>Track record leading ambiguous zero-to-one or major product-evolution work from strategy through launch and learning.</li> <li>Experience building AI/ML-powered products, with fluency in model evaluation and product/model tradeoffs.</li> <li>Strong analytical judgment, including defining metrics, interpreting evidence, and changing direction when needed.</li> <li>Excellent cross-functional leadership with Engineering, Data Science/ML, Design, Safety, and partner teams in ambiguous, technically complex spaces.</li> </ul> <p><span style="font-size: 12pt;"><strong>Nice-to-Haves:</strong></span></p> <ul> <li>Experience with community, social, creator, UGC, trust/safety, or moderation products.</li> <li>Experience with ML-heavy consumer surfaces or policy-sensitive AI experiences.</li> <li>Experience replacing mature systems with a new product paradigm in complex, matrixed organizations.</li> </ul> <p><span style="font-size: 12pt;"><strong>Benefits:</strong></span></p> <ul> <li>Comprehensive Healthcare Benefits and Income Replacement Programs</li> <li>401k with Employer Match</li> <li>Global Benefit programs that fit your lifestyle, from workspace to professional development to caregiving support</li> <li>Family Planning Support</li> <li>Gender-Affirming Care</li> <li>Mental Health &amp; Coaching Benefits</li> <li>Flexible Vacation &amp; Paid Volunteer Time Off</li> <li>Generous Paid Parental Leave&nbsp;</li> </ul> <p>&nbsp;</p> <p>&nbsp;</p><div class="content-pay-transparency"><div class="pay-input"><div class="description"><p><strong>Pay Transparency:</strong></p> <p>This job posting may span more than one career level.</p> <p>In addition to base salary, this job is eligible to receive equity in the form of restricted stock units, and depending on the position offered, it may also be eligible to receive a commission. Additionally, Reddit offers a wide range of benefits to U.S.-based employees, including medical, dental, and vision insurance, 401(k) program with employer match, generous time off for vacation, and parental leave. To learn more, please visit <a href="https://www.redditinc.com/careers/" target="_blank">https://www.redditinc.com/careers/</a>.</p> <p>To provide greater transparency to candidates, we share base salary ranges for all US-based job postings regardless of state. We set standard base pay ranges for all roles based on function, level, and country location, benchmarked against similar stage growth companies. Final offer amounts are determined by multiple factors including, skills, depth of work experience and relevant licenses/credentials, and may vary from the amounts listed below.</p></div><div class="title">The base salary range for this position is:</div><div class="pay-range"><span>$217,000</span><span class="divider">&mdash;</span><span>$303,900 USD</span></div></div></div><div class="content-conclusion"><p>In select roles and locations, the interviews will be recorded, transcribed and summarized by artificial intelligence (AI). You will have the opportunity to opt out of recording, transcription and summarization prior to any scheduled interviews.</p> <p><span style="font-weight: 400;">During the interview, we will collect the following categories of personal information: Identifiers, Professional and Employment-Related Information, Sensory Information (audio/video recording), and any other categories of personal information you choose to share with us. We will use this information to evaluate your application for employment or an independent contractor role, as applicable.&nbsp; We will not sell your personal information or disclose it to any third party for their marketing purposes.&nbsp; We will delete any recording of your interview promptly after making a hiring decision.&nbsp; For more information about how we will handle your personal information, including our retention of it, please refer to our <a href="https://redditinc.com/policies/candidate-privacy-policy">Candidate Privacy Policy for Potential Employees and Contractors</a>.</span></p> <p><em><span style="font-