Analytics Engineer, Nextdoor

Growth

$112-180k

+ Equity

SQL
Python
Looker
R
Senior level
San Francisco Bay Area
Nextdoor

Private social network for neighbours

Open for applications

Nextdoor

Private social network for neighbours

501-1000 employees

B2CPrivacyNetworkingSocialSaaS

Open for applications

$112-180k

+ Equity

SQL
Python
Looker
R
Senior level
San Francisco Bay Area

501-1000 employees

B2CPrivacyNetworkingSocialSaaS

Company mission

Nextdoor’s mission is to cultivate a kinder world where everyone has a neighbourhood they can rely on.

Role

Who you are

  • 5+ years working in data engineering or analytics
  • Expert knowledge of SQL, including writing and optimizing queries in multiple dialects
  • Strong command of 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 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 (Finance, Engineering, etc.)
  • Demonstrated experience driving projects end-to-end and can speak to outcome and impact

Desirable

  • A background working for an ad-supported site with user-generated content
  • Experience in data related to one of our target areas (i.e. finance, product)
  • Experience with writing and reviewing version controlled code (github)
  • Experience writing in a scripting language such as Python or R
  • Experience in an agile or kanban workflow

What the job involves

  • 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 digestable and actionable 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
  • As a Senior Analytics Engineer at Nextdoor, you’ll work to democratize data and reporting to drive strategy and measure performance against KPIs across the business
  • This role focuses on Nextdoor’s Growth Initiatives. 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
  • 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 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, 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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Steph

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Insights

Top investors

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

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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