Staff Data Scientist, Nextdoor
Growth
$167-250k
Plus equity
Private social network for neighbours
Open for applications
Private social network for neighbours
501-1000 employees
Open for applications
$167-250k
Plus equity
501-1000 employees
Company mission
Nextdoor’s mission is to cultivate a kinder world where everyone has a neighbourhood they can rely on.
Role
Who you are
- We are looking for an entrepreneurial and driven data scientist to accelerate our efforts and be a major part of our data-centric culture
- Successful candidates will exhibit technical acumen, product sense and business savvy, which are enthusiastic about making an impact through timely execution
- You are passionate about leveraging the power of data to drive product changes with quality and agility
- 7+ years of data science and product analytics experience with at least 2+ of those years leading teams technically. MS or PhD in a quantitative discipline: statistics, operations research, computer science, engineering, applied mathematics, physics, economics, etc
- Experience in applied statistics and statistical modeling in at least one statistical software package, preferably Python
- Experience in designing trustworthy experimentation and analyzing complex product a/b testing results
- 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 audience, including executives and compile compelling narratives
- Ability to solve ambiguous business problems with structured analytics framework
- Innate curiosity around finding meaningful insights that inform the way we think about and develop both our product and our business strategies
What the job involves
- As a Data Scientist at Nextdoor, you will be responsible for design and oversight of product experiments, and own complex analysis 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 is made up of people from a diverse set of backgrounds and perspectives, trained in fields as wide-ranging as economics, psychology, geology, physics, statistics, and operations research
- We are the mathematical decision scientists for 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
- As a Data Scientist on the Growth Product team, you will focus on product-driven user retention by using data insights in close collaboration with our cross-functional teams, developing models to understand user engagement, causal effects, and new user ecosystems
- You will define and own the ways we measure success for the team
- This person will work closely with various cross-functional teams such as product, engineering, design to develop and deliver metrics, analyses, solutions, and insights
- Experiment design: Make sure we run experiments efficiently and accurately, including monitoring early feature development through tracking post-release follow-ups
- Develop and share key strategic insights through data analysis, evaluating the performance and impact of the product team
- Conduct causal inference studies to deeply understand Nextdoor’s user behavior and acquisition pattern
- Build scalable metrics and dashboards to inform product strategy
- Partner with cross-functional teams to support product development efforts (including product, design, engineering, marketing, and operations)
- Care deeply about data quality and empowering employees to leverage data to help them succeed in their careers and help Nextdoor grow
- Participate in in-person Nextdoor events, trainings, off-sites, volunteer days, and other team building exercises
- Build in-person relationships with team members and contribute to the KIND culture that Nextdoor values
Our take
Nextdoor is a private social network that aims to encourage social interaction between neighbours and make people aware of crime in their area.
The social network has had huge success in the United States and has expanded internationally, with Nextdoor now present in more than 242,000 neighbourhoods around the world.
The company's main competition comes from local Facebook groups, which have become less and less popular due to their comparative lack of functionality. Nextdoor's laser focus on building for neighborhoods has helped them to build a better product, and their advertising partnership with Oracle, launched in 2022, will help bring more transparency to Nextdoor's sponsorships.
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Insights
Few candidates hear
back within 2 weeks
8% employee growth in 12 months
Company
Funding (2 rounds)
May 2019
$129.1m
Dec 2017
$78.8m
Total funding: $207.9m
Company benefits
- Monthly wellness stipend
- 12 weeks of parental, family or medical leave
- Global end of year shutdown
- Learning and development stipend
- Work from home opportunities
- Health insurance
Company values
- Earn trust every day
- Invest in community
- Customer obsessed
- Think big
- Experiment and learn quickly
- Act like an owner
Company HQ
SoMa, San Francisco, CA
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Leadership
Prakash Janakiraman
(Advisor & Co-founder)Graduated from the University of California, Berkeley before working in engineering roles at Google and as the co-founder of Fanbase.com
David Weisen
(Engineer & Co-founder)Worked as a software engineer at Google, Fanbase.com and Open Harbour after graduating from Stanford with a degree in Computer Science
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