Nextdoor
Senior Data Scientist - Search
US Remote · Senior
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About the role
- #Team Nextdoor 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.
- Download the app and join the neighborhood at nextdoor.com.
Responsibilities
- 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.
- Design and develop algorithms and models to optimize Search relevance, retrieval, and ranking - driving value for both neighbors and the businesses they discover
- Develop and share key strategic insights through data analysis, including designing experiments and evaluating the performance and impact of data-driven content and ranking changes
- Build scalable metrics and dashboards to track Search performance and inform decisions across query understanding, retrieval, ranking, and downstream engagement
- Partner with cross-functional teams to support product development efforts (including product, design, engineering, marketing, and operations)
- Innate curiosity around finding meaningful insights that inform how we think about and develop our product and business strategies
Compensation
- The starting salary for this role is expected to range from $175,000 - $234,000 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.
Company info
- 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 are looking for an entrepreneurial, technically strong data scientist to accelerate this work and help define what "great search" means at Nextdoor.
- We are looking for someone who is equally comfortable digging into messy data to find the insight that reframes a problem and rolling up their sleeves to prototype, ship, and iterate on the solution alongside engineering.
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