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Lead and scale Nextdoor's Central/Midwest sales organization, own regional revenue and GTM strategy, manage and develop a team of client partners and managers, cultivate strategic client relationships, partner cross-functionally on product and marketing, and represent Nextdoor in-person at events to drive market growth and culture.

Drive revenue growth and advertiser value through data science for Nextdoor’s Ads Marketplace. Responsibilities include developing ranking and optimization models, designing experiments, analyzing auction performance, building explainability feedback loops, and delivering strategic insights. The role partners with Product, Engineering, Marketing, Sales, Finance, and Operations to improve advertising products and explore AI and large language model applications.

Own end-to-end data science for emerging content surfaces, including product experimentation, causal inference, exploratory analysis, metrics, dashboards, and strategic insights. Identify opportunities to grow content supply, creators, and engagement while improving discovery. Lead content data architecture and quality initiatives, develop source-of-truth assets, and apply advanced statistical methods such as quasi-experiments and network testing. Partner with Product, Engineering, Design, and Research to influence product direction and communicate findings to diverse audiences.

The Machine Learning Engineer will build data-intensive products, deploy ML models, analyze datasets, and collaborate with product teams to enhance Nextdoor's platform.

The Senior Analytics Engineering Manager will oversee analytics engineering vision, manage a team, ensure data quality, and drive data-driven decisions across departments.

The Senior Software Engineer will develop backend systems, mentor engineers, and collaborate with cross-functional teams while contributing to product features and roadmaps.

Lead consumer product design craft and manage 5–6 designers while remaining hands-on. Run critiques, establish growth plans, oversee design capacity across seven product areas, guide design-system decisions, represent design with executives, and ship high-impact product experiences. The role requires strong UX/product design judgment, research synthesis, people management, and AI-assisted design fluency.

Own the end-to-end rebuild of Nextdoor’s consumer search experience, including query understanding, retrieval, ranking, result quality, organic and sponsored content blending, and monetization. Define search relevance metrics, partner with engineering, data science, ML, research, design, and marketing teams, and use A/B testing to improve engagement and revenue while protecting user experience.

As a Senior Data Scientist, you'll optimize search relevance, retrieve content, analyze data, and collaborate with teams to enhance product strategies.