Roxy Young

Roxy Young is a marketing executive who served as Reddit's chief marketing and consumer-experience officer for roughly eight years, joining before the company's rapid scale-up and remaining through its transition to a public company. She has been described in press coverage as the first Latina to join Reddit's executive C-suite, with prior marketing experience spanning consumer brands such as Sephora, Gap, and Netflix.

As Reddit's marketing leader, Young oversaw the company's first major consumer-marketing campaigns and its brand strategy as the platform sought to move from a niche community site toward a broader mainstream audience. She is frequently associated with Reddit's brief, attention-grabbing advertising experiments, including a five-second Super Bowl spot that the company conceived and executed on a compressed timeline, and with civic-engagement campaigns encouraging users to vote.

Young announced her departure from Reddit in July 2025, after about eight years that included guiding the brand through its March 2024 initial public offering. Coverage of her exit placed it within a wave of leadership changes at Reddit following the IPO, characterizing her as a long-tenured executive who had helped define the company's public-facing identity during a period of intense growth.

Within the broader story of Reddit's commercialization, Young's role illustrates the company's effort to build an advertising business and a recognizable brand while preserving the community-driven character that distinguishes the platform. That tension — between growing revenue and advertiser appeal on one hand and the expectations of long-time users and moderators on the other — has been a recurring theme in Reddit's history. Young's public profile centers on marketing leadership rather than on any controversy attributed to her personally.