--- title: 'Staff Data Scientist - Content Growth & Creator Strategy at Nextdoor' canonical: 'https://feeny.ai/job/staff-data-scientist-content-growth-creator-strategy-nextdoor-united-states-7nbt47tgwcg6' type: 'job' last_seen: '2026-09-04' --- # Staff Data Scientist - Content Growth & Creator Strategy at Nextdoor - **Company:** Nextdoor - **Location:** United States - **Work type:** remote - **Posted:** 2026-09-03 - **Last confirmed live:** 2026-09-04 - **Apply:** https://about.nextdoor.com/careers-list/?gh_jid=8178578 ## Job description #TeamNextdoor Nextdoor (NYSE: NXDR) is the essential neighborhood network. Neighbors, public agencies, and businesses use Nextdoor to connect around local information that matters in more than 350,000 neighborhoods across 11 countries. Nextdoor builds innovative technology to foster local community, share important news, and create neighborhood connections at scale. Download the app and join the neighborhood at [nextdoor.com](http://nextdoor.com/). Meet Your Future Neighbors As a Data Scientist at Nextdoor, you will help design and oversee product experiments and own complex analyses 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 consists of people from a diverse set of backgrounds and perspectives, trained in fields as wide-ranging as economics, physics, statistics, and operations research. We are an integral part of the product development organization and play an active and collaborative role in building and improving the product. At Nextdoor, we operate in an AI-first environment and expect every team member to actively use AI tools as part of their workflow. We aren't looking for prompt engineers; we’re looking for people who use tools like Claude, Gemini, ChatGPT, and Glean to challenge their own thinking and take full ownership of AI-assisted outputs. We also offer a warm and inclusive work environment that embraces a hybrid employment model, blending an in office presence and work from home experience for our valued employees. The hiring team will go over these expectations with you if you are being considered for a role near one of our offices in San Francisco, Los Angeles, Chicago, Dallas, New York, and London. The Impact You'll Make 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. Your responsibilities will include: - 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 ## What You'll Bring To The Team - 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 Rewards Compensation, benefits, perks, and recognition programs at Nextdoor come together to create our total rewards package. Compensation will vary depending on your relevant skills, experience, and qualifications. The starting base salary for this role is expected to range from $190,000 to $283,000 on an annualized basis, or potentially greater in the event that your 'level' of proficiency exceeds the level expected for the role. The salary range will be determined by the candidate’s geographic location. We expect to award a meaningful equity grant for this role. With quarterly vesting, your first vest date will take place within 3 months of your start date. When it comes to benefits, we have you covered! 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. At Nextdoor, we empower our employees to build stronger local communities. To create a platform where all feel welcome, we want our workforce to reflect the diversity of the neighbors we serve. We encourage everyone interested in our mission to apply. We do not discriminate on the basis of race, gender, religion, sexual orientation, age, or any other trait that unfairly targets a group of people. In accordance with the San Francisco Fair Chance Ordinance, we always consider qualified applicants with arrest and conviction records. For information about our collection and use of applicants’ personal information, please see Nextdoor's Personnel Privacy Notice, found [here](https://help.nextdoor.com/s/article/Personnel-Privacy-Policy?language=en_US). ## About Nextdoor ## Company Overview - **One-liner**: Nextdoor is the essential neighborhood network that connects neighbors, local businesses, and public agencies to build stronger local communities. - **Entity Type**: Public (NYSE: KIND) - **Headquarters**: San Francisco, United States - **Founded**: 2011 - **Founders**: Nirav Tolia (CEO, President, Chairperson) — co-founders also include others such as Prakash Janakiraman and David Sze ## Core Business - Primary industry/industries: Social networking, local community platform - Target customers: B2C (neighbors/residents), B2B (local businesses), B2G (public agencies, fire departments, news publishers) - Mission or purpose statement: "To make every neighborhood feel like home." ## Products & Services - **Nextdoor Platform (The New Nextdoor)**: Mobile app and website that offers: - **News**: Trusted local stories from vetted publishers (3,500+ partners in US, UK, Canada) - **Alerts**: Real-time safety, traffic, and weather alerts powered by Weather.com, Samdesk, and local public agencies - **Ask**: AI-powered recommendations distilled from years of neighborhood conversations - **For Sale & Free**: Hyperlocal marketplace for buying, selling, or giving away items - **Events and Groups**: Organize and discover local gatherings and interest-based groups - **Business Pages**: 5M+ claimed business pages where locals can engage with enterprises - **Public Agency Pages**: 6,000+ public agencies use the platform to share critical updates ## Market Standing - **Valuation/Market Cap**: Not publicly available from search results (publicly traded, but specific market cap not cited) - **Key Metric**: Annual Revenue of $257.6M (as of latest available data) - **Notable Investors/Partners**: Partners include Weather.com, Samdesk, and thousands of local news publishers and public agencies. (Specific venture investors not listed in search results) - **Growth Signals**: - 110M+ verified neighbors across 345,000 neighborhoods globally - 1 in 3 U.S. households rely on Nextdoor - Present in 11 countries - Launched "The New Nextdoor" in July 2025, introducing AI-powered Ask feature - Employee headcount: 555 (+0.9% YoY, +9 employees) - Active job postings: 18 (but decreasing trend -35.7% monthly) ## Competitive Advantages - Hyperlocal, verified network: users must submit real names and addresses, building inherent trust - Large existing user base and network effects across neighborhoods - Deep integration with local public agencies, fire departments, and news publishers - AI-powered "Ask" feature leverages years of community data to provide unique local insights - Diverse revenue streams: advertising, business pages, and marketplace ## Strategic Focus - Monetization through advertising (multiple machine learning roles in Ads, Product Manager for Ads Optimization) - Expanding AI capabilities in feed and notifications (Senior ML Engineer - Notifications/Feed) - Growing marketplace and local commerce (For Sale & Free) - Strengthening partnerships with public agencies and local news - Increasing engagement through events, groups, and the new feature suite ## Why Work Here - Culture & Values: "Act Like An Owner", "Build For Community", "Raise The Bar" - Extensive benefits: health care (including LGBTQ+ affirming care), flexible vacation, 401k match, ESPP, 16 weeks paid parental leave, mental health & wellness stipend, caregiving support - Perks: Meals and snacks in office, volunteer programs, career development resources - Employee Resource Groups: 10 active ERGs including MIND (mental health), Rainbowhood (LGBTQ+), B@ND (Black employees), WIN (women & gender minorities), Halal, and more - Work environment: Hybrid/remote flexibility implied (Slack usage, office perks), small-ish team (~555 employees) with engineering roles open (iOS, backend, ML, data science) - Opportunity to work on a product that impacts 110M neighbors and fosters real-world community connections ## Sources 1. [about.nextdoor.com/careers](https://about.nextdoor.com/careers/) 2. [about.nextdoor.com](https://about.nextdoor.com/) 3. [linkedin.com/company/nextdoor-com](https://www.linkedin.com/company/nextdoor-com) 4. [about.nextdoor.com/team](https://about.nextdoor.com/team/) 5. 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