Senior Analytics Engineer

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.

The Impact You’ll Make

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 reporting and working with stakeholders on metric definition and tracking. 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 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

What You’ll Bring To The Team

5+ to 10+ 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
It’s ok if you don’t have all of these requirements; if you think you’d be a good fit for the role, please get in touch with us!

Bonus Points

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

The starting salary for this role is expected to range from $112,000 - $190,000 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.

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