Staff Product Manager, Community Builders

Reddit
United States
Remote

Who this role is best for

Strong fit for product leaders with deep consumer experience who can shape ambiguous, zero-to-one initiatives and drive cross-functional alignment.

Best fit for

  • Candidates with a background in community-driven platforms and experience leading product evolution from strategy to scale.
    — “lead zero-to-one community experiences from problem definition through launch, learning, and scale”
  • Individuals who can balance user-centric design with ecosystem-wide tradeoffs and have a proven track record in cross-functional leadership.
    — “Partner closely with Engineering, Design, Data, Research, and cross-functional teams to make product tradeoffs”
  • Professionals who have shaped product strategies across multiple surfaces and user journeys, especially in social or UGC environments.
    — “Experience shaping product bets across multiple surfaces, user journeys, teams, or parts of a broader consumer ecosystem”

Things to consider

  • The role requires a high level of autonomy and strategic decision-making with minimal direct managerial oversight.
    — “able to resolve dependencies and divergent goals with little direct manager involvement”
  • Candidates should be prepared for high-visibility work and be comfortable with making product tradeoffs that impact community health and trust.
    — “Assess ecosystem tradeoffs as you evolve the user experience, including impacts to community health, contribution quality, and member trust”

How to stand out

  • Emphasize your ability to translate community insights into product experiences and your understanding of multi-sided ecosystems.
    — “Build a deep understanding of members, contributors, community builders, and healthy community dynamics, and translate those insights into high-quality product experiences”
  • Demonstrate your analytical approach to defining success metrics and adapting product direction based on data.
    — “Strong analytical judgment, including defining success metrics, interpreting evidence, and changing direction when needed”
Pace · Fast PacedCollaboration · HighAutonomy · MediumDecision Impact · Company

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What success looks like

  • evolving communities on Reddit
  • launching new community experiences
Typical background
product managementcommunity building

Skills & requirements

Required

Product StrategyZero-to-one Product WorkCross-functional LeadershipUser IntuitionUX JudgmentProduct TasteAnalytical JudgmentSuccess MetricsLearning Plans

Preferred

Community ManagementEmerging Community Formats

Stack & domain

Product ManagementConsumer Product ExperienceProduct JudgmentUser IntuitionUX JudgmentProduct TasteZero-to-one Product WorkCommunity DynamicsUser ExperienceCommunity HealthContribution QualityMember TrustProduct BetsCross-functional LeadershipSuccess MetricsEvidence InterpretationProduct TradeoffsStrategyProduct DetailEarly ExplorationLaunchLearningScaleSQLdbtUndocumented Data WarehousesInconsistent DataBusiness DefinitionsData ScienceDistributionsSeasonalityValidation DesignCalibrationCustom Agent SetupsAnalytical CasesCustomer OutcomesEvidence-driven Problem SolvingAmbiguityDiscoveryDeliveryLeadershipProblem FramingPrioritizationAnalytical Judgment

About the role

Original posting from Reddit via Greenhouse

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 www.redditinc.com.

Role Summary

Reddit is a community of communities, built around the conversations, interests, and experiences people share with one another. The Content Ecosystem organization works to grow the community-driven ecosystem that makes Reddit unique. Within it, the Community Builders team focuses on the products and systems that help communities form, grow, and thrive.

We are looking for a Staff Product Manager to help define the future of communities on Reddit. This is a rare opportunity to shape one of Reddit’s most important consumer experiences: how people find communities, understand where they belong, connect with others, and participate in ways that make those communities stronger. You will lead highly ambiguous, zero-to-one product work that cuts across discovery, contribution, community identity, recognition, and emerging community formats.

This is a high-stakes, high-visibility role for a PM with exceptional product judgment, strong user intuition, and sharp UX taste. You will partner closely with Design, Engineering, Data, Research, and cross-functional leaders to turn ambiguous user and ecosystem problems into compelling product direction, moving fluidly from strategy to product detail and from early exploration through launch, learning, and scale.

Responsibilities

Identify major opportunities to evolve communities on Reddit, and turn them into a clear product strategy and roadmap.

Lead zero-to-one community experiences from problem definition through launch, learning, and scale.

Build a deep understanding of members, contributors, community builders, and healthy community dynamics, and translate those insights into high-quality product experiences.

Assess ecosystem tradeoffs as you evolve the user experience, including impacts to community health, contribution quality, and member trust.

Define goals, success metrics, milestones, and learning plans that connect user value with Reddit’s broader strategy.

Partner closely with Engineering, Design, Data, Research, and cross-functional teams to make product tradeoffs and execute in a high-stakes, high-visibility space.

Create clarity where there is little precedent, and communicate strategy, decisions, tradeoffs, and learning clearly to senior stakeholders

Must-Haves

Staff-level consumer product experience owning meaningful product surfaces or systems with measurable user impact.

Exceptional product sense, including strong 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 shaping product bets across multiple surfaces, user journeys, teams, or parts of a broader consumer ecosystem.

Strong analytical judgment, including defining success metrics, interpreting evidence, and changing direction when needed.

Excellent cross-functional leadership with Design, Engineering, Data, Research, and partner teams; able to resolve dependencies and divergent goals with little direct manager involvement.

Nice-to-Haves

Experience with community, social, creator, UGC, or marketplace products.

Experience shaping user participation, identity, contribution, belonging, or reputation.

Experience evolving mature product systems or designing for multi-sided ecosystems with distinct user needs and incentives.

Benefits

Comprehensive Healthcare Benefits and Income Replacement Programs

401k with Employer Match

Global Benefit programs that fit your lifestyle, from workspace to professional development to caregiving support

Family Planning Support

Gender-Affirming Care

Mental Health & Coaching Benefits

Flexible Vacation & Paid Volunteer Time Off

Generous Paid Parental Leave 

Pay Transparency:

This job posting may span more than one career level.

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 https://www.redditinc.com/careers/.

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Reddit is proud to be an equal opportunity employer, and is committed to building a workforce representative of the diverse communities we serve.  Reddit is committed to providing reasonable accommodations for qualified individuals with disabilities and disabled veterans in our job application procedures. If, due to a disability, you need an accommodation during the interview process, please let your recruiter know.

Source: Reddit careers (Greenhouse)

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