Data Scientist

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Nextdoor (NYSE: NXDR) is the essential neighborhood network. Neighbors, public agencies, and businesses use Nextdoor to connect around local information that matters in more than 340,000 neighborhoods across 11 countries. Nextdoor builds innovative technology to foster local community, share important news, and create neighborhood connections at scale. Download the app and join the neighborhood at nextdoor.com.

Meet Your Future Neighbors

As a Data Scientist at Nextdoor, you’ll Collect, organize, interpret, and analyze statistical and behavioral data to support the design, improvement and scaling of Company’s core products. In this role, you’ll Develop and execute A/B tests and other experimentation frameworks to evaluate the impact of product changes on key metrics such as engagement and retention.

At Nextdoor, we offer a warm and inclusive work environment that embraces a hybrid employment model, blending an in office presence and work from home experience for our valued employees. 

The Impact You’ll Make

If you want the challenge of fast-paced growth, the satisfaction of seeing your design work come to life, and the pride in helping grow a world-class design team, this is the place for you.

Your responsibilities will include:

• Communicate insights through advanced data visualization to influence strategic decision-making and product roadmaps
• Conduct causal inference studies to deeply understand Company’s user behavior, engagement patterns, dynamics of local communities, and acquisition pattern
• Partner with cross-functional teams (including Product, Engineering and User Experience Research teams) to identify opportunities, solve complex problems, and inform the development of features that foster meaningful neighbor-to-neighbor connections
• Apply statistical methods, machine learning, and quantitative analysis to conduct exploratory analysis, develop predictive models, and inform operational strategies
• Apply data mining and data modeling to extract and analyze information from large structured and unstructured datasets
• Build scalable data solutions, including Extract, Transform, Load (ETL) pipeline and distributed data systems, to process and analyze large and complex datasets efficiently

What You’ll Bring To The Team

• Master’s degree or foreign equivalent in Computer Science, Information Systems, Business Analytics, Engineering, or closely related quantitative discipline
• 3 years of experience in the position offered, as a Data Scientist, or closely related position in data sciences
• In the alternative, will accept a Bachelor’s degree in the fields above followed by five (5) years of progressive, post-bachelor’s experience in positions specified above
• Must have experience in the following: Designing and assessing A/B experiments accurately to evaluate the impact of product and feature updates, providing data-driven insights to guide strategic decision-making; Conducting deep analysis utilizing scripting languages, such as Python into user behavior, product features and content ecosystem, generating actionable business insights for strategic improvement initiatives; Developing a metrics framework to assess product health, monitored core metrics, and analyzed the underlying causes of metric fluctuations; Designing, building, and deploying scalable, reliable ETL pipelines and dashboards, along with processing frameworks to efficiently analyze large and complex datasets using SQL; Leveraging statistical methods, quantitative analysis, and machine learning to conduct in-depth analyses and deliver key strategic insights; and Partnering with engineers and product stakeholders to solve ambiguous business problems with structured analytics framework and deliver product insights and strategy

Rewards

Compensation, benefits, perks, and recognition programs at Nextdoor come together to create our total rewards package. Compensation will vary depending on your relevant skills, experience, and qualifications. Compensation may also vary by geography.                                      

The starting salary for this role is expected to range from $194,834 - $236,000/year on an annualized basis, or potentially greater in the event that your 'level' of proficiency exceeds the level expected for the role.              

We expect to award a meaningful equity grant for this role. With quarterly vesting, your first vest date will take place within 3 months of your start date.                  

When it comes to benefits, we have you covered! Nextdoor employees can choose between a variety of health plans, including a 100% covered employee only plan option, and we also provide a OneMedical membership for concierge care.            

At Nextdoor, we empower our employees to build stronger local communities. To create a platform where all feel welcome, we want our workforce to reflect the diversity of the neighbors we serve. We encourage everyone interested in our mission to apply. We do not discriminate on the basis of race, gender, religion, sexual orientation, age, or any other trait that unfairly targets a group of people. In accordance with the San Francisco Fair Chance Ordinance, we always consider qualified applicants with arrest and conviction records.

For information about our collection and use of applicants’ personal information, please see Nextdoor's Personnel Privacy Notice, found here.

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