Staff Data Scientist, Nextdoor
Content Growth & Creator Strategy
$190-283k
+ Equity grant
Private social network for neighbours
Be an early applicant
Private social network for neighbours
501-1000 employees
Be an early applicant
$190-283k
+ Equity grant
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
- Staff-level Data Scientist or Tech Lead experience, ideally within the social media or consumer technology space
- Master’s degree or Ph.D. in Statistics
- Demonstrated expertise in non-randomized A/B testing, network testing, and advanced causal inference methods
- Experience owning end-to-end product analytics, from identifying opportunities and shaping strategy through launching and measuring new features
- Strong cross-functional collaboration skills, with a track record of building effective working relationships with Product, Engineering, and other partners
- The ability to operate as an autonomous technical leader and influence product direction through rigorous analysis, experimentation, and clear communication
- Expert knowledge of SQL and 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
- Eagerness to explore and apply AI and emerging technologies to reimagine how work gets done
What the job involves
- We are looking for a Staff Data Scientist to accelerate execution on priority content investments and elevate the quality of product decision-making
- This person will provide end-to-end data science ownership for new and emerging surfaces such as Video, Groups, and Events—areas with limited historical data that require strong product sense, pattern recognition, rapid hypothesis generation, rigorous diagnosis, and fast iteration
- They will evaluate feature performance, including through non-standard A/B tests; identify opportunities to grow content supply, contributors, and engagement; partner with Distribution to improve discovery; and connect insights across surfaces to drive portfolio-level impact
- The role will also own the data architecture and quality requirements for content data assets spanning supply, creators, viewers, entities, content types, and surfaces
- This includes evolving legacy structures, identifying coverage and quality gaps, and partnering with Analytics Engineering to build and maintain source-of-truth tables and artifacts—an increasingly important foundation for reliable agentic analytics
- Finally, we need a working statistician with strong theoretical training and practical experience to restore expertise in quasi-experiments, network experimentation with bias controls, and other sophisticated methods, ensuring the team can distinguish true product impact from confounding factors while maintaining both rigor and velocity
- 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
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 popular due to their limited functionality. Nextdoor's laser focus on building out its app for neighborhoods has helped it to build a better product. Its advertising partnership with Oracle, launched in 2022, will help bring more transparency to Nextdoor's sponsorships.
Steph
Company Specialist at Welcome to the Jungle
Insights
8% employee growth in 12 months
Company
Funding (2 rounds)
May 2019
$132.9m
Dec 2017
$81m
Total funding: $213.9m
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 HQ
Tenderloin, San Francisco, CA
Leadership
Nirav Tolia
(Co-Founder & CEO)Is also an Advisor and Investor in Early Stage digital companies and is the Chairman of Hedosophia. Was also a Guest "Shark" on the television series Shark Tank.
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