Staff Product Manager, Ads Trust and Safety

<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 126 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 id="model-response-message-contentr_8cdc66b7526a52cb" class="markdown markdown-main-panel enable-luminous-fast-follows enable-updated-hr-color stronger tutor-markdown-rendering"></p> <h3 data-path-to-node="3">The Role &amp; Team:</h3> <p>Reddit is seeking a&nbsp;Staff Product Manager to spearhead the product strategy for Ads Trust &amp; Safety. In this role, you will architect and scale the next generation of systems across ad review, advertiser trust, fraud prevention, and platform safeguards. Your mission: protect our global community of users and brands while unlocking the safe, hyper-growth trajectory of Reddit’s ads business.You will collaborate with cross-functional partners to engineer products and processes that maximize advertiser success without ever compromising on safety, quality, or compliance. This is a definitive opportunity for a visionary product leader who thrives in ambiguity, commands thoughtful trade-offs, and excels at translating complex integrity challenges into a crystal-clear product direction.</p> <p data-path-to-node="6">The <strong data-path-to-node="6" data-index-in-node="4">Ads Trust &amp; Safety</strong> team is the frontline guardian of Reddit's advertising ecosystem, ensuring it remains resilient, trusted, and secure as our business scales. Operating at the high-impact intersection of advertising, safety, automation, and operational excellence, the team handles everything from ad review and fraud prevention to policy enforcement and platform integrity.</p> <p data-path-to-node="7">We partner closely with Engineering, Policy, Legal, Sales, Operations, Product Marketing, and the Reddit Consumer teams to build agile systems that adapt instantly to shifting advertiser needs, emerging abuse vectors, and evolving global regulations.</p> <h3 data-path-to-node="9"><strong data-path-to-node="9" data-index-in-node="0">Responsibilities:</strong></h3> <p data-path-to-node="10">The ideal candidate brings a proven track record of building and scaling products in ads trust and safety, fraud prevention, risk systems, or compliance workflows. You should possess exceptional product judgment, a systems-thinking mindset, and the leadership gravity to unite both technical and non-technical teams.</p> <ul data-path-to-node="11"> <li> <p data-path-to-node="11,0,0"><strong data-path-to-node="11,0,0" data-index-in-node="0">Drive the Vision:</strong> Define and execute the product strategy and roadmap for Ads Integrity, encompassing ad review, fraud prevention, advertiser trust, and platform quality.</p> </li> <li> <p data-path-to-node="11,1,0"><strong data-path-to-node="11,1,0" data-index-in-node="0">Balance the Ecosystem:</strong> Masterfully balance advertiser experience, user safety, operational efficiency, business impact, and complex regulatory landscapes in every product decision.</p> </li> <li> <p data-path-to-node="11,2,0"><strong data-path-to-node="11,2,0" data-index-in-node="0">Unite Cross-Functional Partners:</strong> Lead alignment and deliver durable, long-term solutions alongside Engineering, Policy, Legal, Operations, Sales, Product Marketing, and broader product organizations.</p> </li> <li> <p data-path-to-node="11,3,0"><strong data-path-to-node="11,3,0" data-index-in-node="0">Translate Insights into Action:</strong> Convert advertiser pain points, integrity risks, and operational bottlenecks into sharp product requirements, robust success metrics, and measurable business outcomes.</p> </li> <li> <p data-path-to-node="11,4,0"><strong data-path-to-node="11,4,0" data-index-in-node="0">Innovate &amp; Automate:</strong> Identify high-leverage opportunities to enhance automation, elevate decision quality, optimize feedback loops, and drive enforcement consistency across both ambiguous 0-to-1 initiatives and mature scaling systems.</p> </li> </ul> <h3 data-path-to-node="13"><strong data-path-to-node="13" data-index-in-node="0">Required Qualifications:</strong></h3> <ul data-path-to-node="14"> <li> <p data-path-to-node="14,0,0"><strong data-path-to-node="14,0,0" data-index-in-node="0">6+ years</strong> of product management experience, with a proven history of owning complex, highly cross-functional product domains.</p> </li> <li> <p data-path-to-node="14,1,0"><strong data-path-to-node="14,1,0" data-index-in-node="0">Domain Expertise:</strong> Deep experience building products in digital advertising, advertiser workflows, ad policy, trust and safety, fraud prevention, abuse detection, risk-based decisioning, or platform integrity.</p> </li> <li> <p data-path-to-node="14,2,0"><strong data-path-to-node="14,2,0" data-index-in-node="0">Advanced Systems Thinking:</strong> The ability to reason holistically across user experience, policy frameworks, operational workflows, data pipelines, and technical architecture.</p> </li> <li> <p data-path-to-node="14,3,0"><strong data-path-to-node="14,3,0" data-index-in-node="0">Intelligent Automation:</strong> Hands-on experience building products that seamlessly blend automation, human review, feedback loops, machine learning, or AI-assisted workflows.</p> </li> <li> <p data-path-to-node="14,4,0"><strong data-path-to-node="14,4,0" data-index-in-node="0">Ambiguity to Execution:</strong> A demonstrated ability to lead ambiguous product spaces from zero to strategy, through execution, utilizing data and metrics to ruthlessly prioritize and guide trade-offs.</p> </li> <li> <p data-path-to-node="14,5,0"><strong data-path-to-node="14,5,0" data-index-in-node="0">Influence &amp; Communication:</strong> Elite cross-functional leadership skills, with the ability to influence without authority and distill highly complex topics into clear, actionable narratives.<br><br></p> <p style="text-align: left;"><strong>Perks and Benefits:</strong></p> <ul> <li>100% remote opportunity (we have 4 office locations for hybrid/onsite work preference in NY, SF, LA and Chicago)</li> <li>Competitive salary and equity options</li> <li>Comprehensive health benefits (medical, dental, vision) &amp; workplace perks (home office set up stipend etc)</li> <li>Generous 401k matching</li> <li>Flexible vacation policy&nbsp;</li> <li>Paid parental leave (4+ months)</li> <li>Family planning support</li> <li>Paid volunteer time off</li> </ul> <p>#LI-AS1</p> </li> </ul> <p>&nbsp;</p> <p></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, pleas