Data Scientist - Feed

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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 will help design and oversee product experiments and own complex analyses to drive company and product strategy. We use a semi-embedded team structure, in which a group of data team members works on a specific product or pillar, interfacing directly with product and engineering stakeholders. The Data Science group consists of people from a diverse set of backgrounds and perspectives, trained in fields as wide-ranging as economics, physics, statistics, and operations research. We are an integral part of the product development organization and play an active and collaborative role in building and improving the product.

At Nextdoor, we offer a warm and inclusive work environment that embraces a hybrid employment experience, providing a flexible experience for our valued employees.

The Impact You'll Make

Feed is a mission-critical surface within our platform – helping neighbors discover meaningful content through an intuitive interface and surfacing the right content through intelligent ranking. As a Data Scientist on the Feed team, you will partner with Analytics Engineers to advance our data foundation, collaborate with our cross-functional teams to develop and execute product roadmaps, and define/own the ways we measure success and elevate experimentation capabilities of the team.

We are seeking an entrepreneurial and driven data scientist to accelerate our efforts and play a significant role in our data-centric culture. This person will work closely with various cross-functional teams, such as product, engineering, and design, to develop and deliver metrics, analyses, solutions, and insights.

Successful candidates will demonstrate technical acumen, product expertise, and business acumen, and be enthusiastic about making a positive impact through timely execution. You are passionate about leveraging the power of data to drive product changes with quality and agility.

Your responsibilities will include:

• Partner with cross-functional teams - including product management, design, engineering, research -  to support product development efforts
• Experiments: design and measure experiments to inform feature decisions
• Develop key strategic insights through exploratory data analysis, to inform future investments or pivot in strategy
• Build scalable metrics and dashboards to empower efficient decision-making at Nextdoor 
• Participate in in-person Nextdoor events such as trainings, off-sites, volunteer days, and team-building exercises
• Build in-person relationships with team members and contribute to Nextdoor's company culture

What You'll Bring To The Team

• 3-5 years of data science and product analytics experience
• BS and/or MS in a quantitative discipline: statistics, operations research, computer science, engineering, applied mathematics, physics, economics, etc.
• Experience in designing trustworthy experimentation and analyzing complex product a/b testing results
• Experience identifying, designing, and delivering ergonomic tables to amplify speed + accuracy of key analysis and self-serve reports
• Expert knowledge of SQL, Python programming, including common scientific computing packages and data science tools such as numpy, pandas, and scikit-learn
• Excellent communication skills, with the ability to synthesize, simplify, and explain complex problems to different types of audiences, including executives, and compile compelling narratives
• Innate curiosity around finding meaningful insights that inform the way we think about and develop both our product and our business strategies
• Eagerness to explore and apply AI and emerging technologies to reimagine how work gets done

Rewards

Compensation, benefits, perks, and recognition programs at Nextdoor come together to create one overall rewards package.

The starting base salary for this role for the San Francisco, CA area is expected to range from $175,000 to $203,000 on an annualized basis, or potentially greater in the event that your 'level' of proficiency exceeds the level expected for the role. Compensation may also vary by geography. We also expect to award a meaningful equity grant for this role. With quarterly vesting, your first vest date would be within the first 3 months of your start date.

Overall, total compensation will vary depending on your relevant skills, experience, and qualifications. We have you covered! Nextdoor employees can choose between a variety of great health plans. 

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.