About the role
What will you do at Nextdoor?
#TEAMNEXTDOOR
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 350,000 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 [http://nextdoor.com/].
MEET YOUR FUTURE NEIGHBORS
In the Analytics Engineering team at Nextdoor, we believe in the transformative
power of information, bringing together data from a wide variety of sources and
making it digestible and attainable by everyone in the company. We are a lean
but powerful team with diverse backgrounds and perspectives, because that’s what
we seek out and respect in others. We collaborate cross-functionally to make the
numbers available and clear, playing a key role in the company’s overall effort
to foster stronger and healthier communities.
At Nextdoor, we operate in an AI-first environment and expect every team member
to actively use AI tools as part of their workflow. We aren't looking for prompt
engineers; we’re looking for people who use tools like Claude, Gemini, ChatGPT,
and Glean to challenge their own thinking and take full ownership of AI-assisted
outputs.
We also 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 hiring team will go over these expectations with
you if you are being considered for a role near one of our offices in San
Francisco, Los Angeles, Chicago, Dallas, New York, and London.
THE IMPACT YOU’LL MAKE
As an Analytics Engineer on the Monetization team here at Nextdoor, you’ll work
to democratize data and reporting to drive strategy and measure performance
against KPIs across the business.
In this role, you will
- work with various Ads
- product stakeholders, build data pipelines, own and define metrics in
- collaboration with data scientists, and serve as a trusted resource for all data
- needs. You'll be responsible for understanding where our data comes from,
- transforming it, and making it available to stakeholders across the company via
- queries, tools, and dashboards. The ideal candidate is a tech-savvy, strong
- communicator who understands how to make data understandable by everyone.
- You should be excited to bring your experience and expertise every day in order
- to:
- * Own reporting tools, pipelines, and dashboards to ensure consistent
- availability and accuracy of mission-critical data
- * Partner with key stakeholders on KPI development and tracking across the
- Consumer organization
- * Build datasets and reports that represent the source of truth for our key
- metrics
- * Keep data sources fresh even while requirements and definitions change.
- Address data quality issues and build in alerting
- * Partner with data science, finance & strategy, marketing, sales, product, and
- engineering on analytics engineering strategy to enable data-driven decision
- making across the company
- * Set expectations and SLAs on data availability, and own communications around
- SLA performance to the business
- * Drive self-service and data literacy for business users on our data platform
- by creating and documenting data structures and sets, SQL and data tools
- training, and dashboard development
- * Care deeply about data quality and empowering employees to leverage data to
- help them succeed in their careers, and help Nextdoor grow and succeed
- * 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
- * 6+ years working in data engineering or analytics
- * Advanced knowledge of SQL, including writing and optimizing queries in
- multiple dialects
- * Experience working in the ads or monetization space
- * Experience with Looker (preferred) or another BI/visualization tool
- * Experience working with ETL/ELT pipelines
- * Strong communication skills, both written and verbal
- * Ability to understand, tackle, and solve problems from both technical and
- business perspectives
- * Experience in effectively presenting insights and summarizing complex data to
- diverse audiences through visualizations and other means
- * Demonstrated experience working with and delivering to cross-functional
- stakeholders from multiple parts of the company (Sales, Engineering, Data
- Science, etc.)
- * Demonstrated experience driving projects end-to-end and can speak to outcome
- and impact
- 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 $167,000 to $249,000
on an annualized basis, or potentially higher if your 'level' of proficiency
exceeds the level expected for the role. The salary range will be determined by
the candidate's geographic location.
We expect to award a meaningful equity grant for this role. With quarterly
vesting, your first vesting date will occur within 3 months of your start date.
When it comes to benefits, we have you covered! Nextdoor employees can choose
from a variety of health plans, including a 100% covered employee-only plan, 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
[https://help.nextdoor.com/s/article/Personnel-Privacy-Policy? language=en_US].
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