Senior Analytics Engineer

Nextdoor • San Francisco, CA

2d • $163,000 - $229,000 • Hybrid

About The Position

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 offer a warm and inclusive work environment that embraces a hybrid employment experience, providing a flexible experience for our valued employees. As an Analytics Engineer 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 Consumer product stakeholders, building data pipelines, owning and defining metrics in collaboration with the data scientists, and be a trusted resource for all the 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.

Requirements

• 6+ years working in data engineering or analytics
• Advanced knowledge of SQL, including writing and optimizing queries in multiple dialects
• 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 (Finance, Engineering, etc.)
• Demonstrated experience driving projects end-to-end and can speak to outcome and impact
• Eagerness to explore and apply AI and emerging technologies to reimagine how work gets done

Responsibilities

• 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

Benefits

• Nextdoor employees can choose between a variety of health plans, including a 100% covered employee only plan option, and we also provide a OneMedical membership for concierge care.

What This Job Offers

• Job Type: Full-time
• Career Level: Senior
• Education Level: No Education Listed
• Number of Employees: 501-1,000 employees