The setting
runs a discussion platform where people post, comment and vote in topic communities. is its advertising software, which lets brands, retailers and agencies deliver, target and measure ads on the platform.
The SKAdNetwork mapping can stabilize reporting or permanently reshape active conversion histories.
Renewal reporting needs a single trusted total, while downstream measurement needs a cutover that preserves auditability.
Who you’d be doing this for
“My client asked why yesterday's install total changed overnight, and I had no clean answer.”
Sithu Htwe · Digital Advertising Manager · a character in this brief
Manages app-install budgets and must reconcile campaign performance with an agency and mobile measurement partner.
What is at stake
App advertisers see daily install totals change while MMP cohorts stay stable. You must decide whether the evidence supports an irreversible mapping cutover or requires protecting current reporting longer.
Why it isn’t already fixed
Every obvious fix costs something else. That’s the part you’d have to decide.
- renewal confidence vs. irreversible conversion history
- advertiser reconciliation vs. delivery-label stability
- fast cutover vs. auditable evidence
- shared measurement definitions vs. cohort continuity
Why Reddit
App-install campaigns depend on reliable SKAdNetwork and MMP signals to optimize delivery and defend advertiser spend.
Written with these in mind
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Where the organization context comes fromThe postings this brief was written from, and the reporting read before it.
The organization context comes from public information. The situation and characters are written for the brief.
Job postings it was written from
Public descriptions of the work at Reddit. They are listed as sources, not as openings. The lines under a posting are its own words, where it meets this brief.
- Senior Software Engineer - Messaging (opens in a new tab)
- As a senior engineer, you will partner closely with your team and our biggest users (ML/AI/Search) to build technical solutions that can scale to Reddit’s product growth.
- Senior Backend Engineer, Compliance Engineering (opens in a new tab)
- You must be able to collaborate effectively with teams in a fully-remote environment, and discuss complex topics with technical and non-technical audiences.
- Software Engineer, Ad Signals (opens in a new tab)
- Work with partner engineering and downstream consumers to evolve schemas and integrations without disrupting existing advertisers.
- You will work on MMP integrations, SKAN processing, and App CAPI to make app installs and in-app events more reliable, useful, and easier for advertisers to integrate.
- Engineering Manager, Knowledge Graph Platform (opens in a new tab)
- Stay close to architecture and technical design, helping the team navigate complex system tradeoffs and contribute hands-on when it is the highest-leverage path.
- Senior Software Engineer, Agentic Ads Experience (opens in a new tab)
- Reddit's Ads business is at an inflection point, and generative AI is reshaping how advertisers plan, build, launch, measure, and optimize campaigns.
- The Agentic Ads Experience team is building the next generation of advertiser-facing interfaces: campaign assistants, creative and ad copy generation, one-click campaign creation, audience discovery, conversational analytics, and optimization recommendations.
Reporting read before this brief was written
The pieces closest to the situation in this brief.
On September 3, 2026, Reddit made Max campaigns available to all advertisers, with API support, a Smartly integration and asset groups, citing early-test results of 17% lower CPA and over 27% more conversions.
Performance unlocked: Reddit Max campaigns are now available to all advertisers (opens in a new tab) · redditinc.com · Sep 3, 2026
This is the setup. The work is inside.
Running it puts you in the room: the full situation and its constraints, stakeholders who push back in their own words, and the decisions that are yours to make. What you produce becomes a Day One Plan — work you can show someone instead of describing.
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