Machine Learning Manager, Feed Relevance (Retrieval)

Reddit is looking for an experienced Engineering Manager to lead our Feed Retrieval team. In this role, you’ll lead a high-impact team of Machine Learning Engineers building the systems that identify, retrieve, and shape the candidate inventory powering Reddit’s personalized feeds. Your team will work at the foundation of Feed Relevance: expanding the set of high-quality content Reddit can recommend, improving personalization and discovery for users across different levels of signal, and building scalable ML systems that directly shape the experiences of over 120M+ daily users.

If applying ML / AI in production to improve Reddit Relevance excites you, then you’ve found the right place.

Responsibilities:

• Define Technical Vision & Strategy: Define the technical vision and long-term roadmap for Feed Retrieval, aligning large-scale recommender-system investments with Reddit’s product, ecosystem, and business objectives.
• Roadmap & Prioritization: Translate broad Feed Relevance goals into a focused team roadmap, making clear prioritization tradeoffs across model quality, inventory expansion, experimentation velocity, infrastructure cost, and operational reliability.
• Team Leadership & Development: Coach and support the development of your team, constantly seeking opportunities to grow their skills and impact. 
• Technical Execution & Delivery: Oversee the design, development, and optimization of retrieval systems that source relevant, diverse, fresh, and high-quality candidates for personalized feed experiences.
• Measurement & Learning: Establish strong measurement, experimentation, and debugging practices so the team can understand retrieval quality, candidate coverage, source incrementality, and downstream impact.
• Platform & Infrastructure Collaboration: Collaborate with ML platform, infrastructure, ranking, safety, and product teams to build scalable, low-latency retrieval systems that can support the next generation of AI-powered recommendations.
• Operational Excellence: Maintain high standards for system performance, reliability, latency, cost efficiency, and responsible recommendation practices.
• Cross-Functional Partnership: Work with cross-functional partners from across the company to identify key areas of opportunity, set expectations, and communicate your team’s work.
• Recruiting & Growth: Partner with our incredible recruiting team to attract, interview, and hire diverse and talented machine learning engineers, growing a world-class team.

Qualifications:

• Experience Leading ML Teams: 2+ years of experience building and managing high-