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Creative Technologist, KarmaLab

Reddit

New York City, USonsite$116k-$162k/yrPosted May 20, 2026

At a glance

Highlights

  • Hybrid (NY or Chicago)
  • AI-powered creative workflows
  • Equity and commission
  • Flexible vacation

Heads up

  • 5+ years minimum
  • fast-moving ambiguous environment

Why this role might suit you

A senior technologist with AI, data, and creative workflow experience can shape Reddit's AI‑driven ad creation, collaborating across product, engineering, and sales while leveraging large‑scale data tools.

Skills

sqlbigquerylookerhexlarge-language-modelsgenerative-aiagentic-aidata-pipelinesapi-integrationdashboardsdata-visualization

About the role

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 www.redditinc.com.

Reddit’s KarmaLab is the creative engine behind the Global Sales Organization, helping brands show up on Reddit in ways that feel authentic to the platform while driving real business impact. As Reddit’s in-house creative strategy team, KarmaLab partners closely with Sales, Marketing, Product, and advertisers to develop campaigns, creative strategies, and storytelling that connect brands with Reddit communities.

Reddit is seeking a Creative Technologist to join KarmaLab and sit at the center of our AI-powered creative production, turning Reddit’s community insights and tools into scalable workflows that help teams go from a brief to client-ready ideas, assets, and reports.

As advertisers increasingly adopt generative tools, you’ll help ensure Reddit’s AI-generated creative assets are high-quality, brand-safe, and grounded in real community behavior. You’ll partner closely with Product, Engineering, and Reddit’s AI Strategy function to improve agentic workflows in Ads Manager, guide model outputs, and reduce the manual “glue work” required from strategists today.

Location: Hybrid - New York or Chicago

What You’ll Do:

Build and scale AI-powered creative workflows that connect Reddit’s data infrastructure, creative systems, and advertising ecosystem

Improve and optimize LLM outputs across use cases, including creative tagging, asset generation, reporting, and end-to-end creative system design

Develop frameworks for evaluating prompts, model outputs, and agentic AI workflows to support scalable production use cases

Test and operationalize agentic AI frameworks and multi-agent systems that automate creative analysis, reporting, and asset generation

Partner with Product and Engineering to build stakeholder-facing applications, dashboards, and tools that surface actionable creative insights and Reddit-native recommendations

Automate and streamline creative reporting, workflows, and other manual processes across KarmaLab and the broader business

Qualifications:

5–8+ years of professional experience across AI, data, creative strategy, or creative technology

Experience using AI to transform workflows, build tooling, or scale creative systems

Strong understanding of cultural insights, brand strategy, consumer behavior, or agency planning

Advanced SQL skills and experience working with databases such as BigQuery

Experience building or maintaining data pipelines and API integrations

Experience developing frameworks for optimizing and evaluating LLM outputs

Familiarity with agentic AI systems, multi-agent orchestration, or AI workflow automation

Experience building dashboards or data visualization tools using platforms like Looker or Hex

Comfortable operating in fast-moving, ambiguous, experimental environments

Collaborative, builder-oriented mindset with a strong bias toward execution

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 will 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/.

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.

The base salary range for this position is:

$115,500—$161,700 USD

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.

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Compensation

This Creative Designer role pays $116k-$162k/yr. Within typical range for creative designer roles in United States.

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