Staff Data Scientist, Content Growth & Creator Strategy

Job overview

The Staff Data Scientist, Content Growth & Creator Strategy role follows Nextdoor’s hybrid employment model, with office locations including San Francisco, CA; compensation is an annual base salary of $190,000–$283,000, potentially higher depending on level and location. Nextdoor builds a neighborhood network connecting people, public agencies, and businesses. The role provides end-to-end data science leadership for emerging content surfaces and improves product decisions through experimentation, analysis, and reliable content data assets. It helps identify growth opportunities and distinguish product impact from confounding factors while supporting product and engineering partners.

What you'll do

• Partner with product, design, engineering, and research teams
• design and measure experiments
• develop strategic insights through exploratory analysis
• build scalable metrics and dashboards
• evaluate content features and growth opportunities
• improve discovery with Distribution
• own data architecture and quality requirements for content data assets
• partner with Analytics Engineering on source-of-truth tables
• and apply advanced statistical and causal inference methods.

What we're looking for

Skills & competencies

staff data scientist

content growth

creator strategy

san francisco ca

nextdoor

product analytics

experimentation

causal inference

sql

python

content data

hybrid employment

annual salary $190k–$283k

equity grant

Work arrangement

• Weekend coverage required

Benefits & perks

• Equity grant with quarterly vesting
• health plan options including a 100% covered employee-only plan option
• OneMedical membership.

Why this role

The role focuses on emerging surfaces such as Video, Groups, and Events and calls for expertise in quasi-experiments, network experimentation, and causal inference.

About the employer

Nextdoor is hiring for this role. Industry: Media Streaming Distribution Services, Social Networks, and Other Media Networks and Content Providers. Sector: 51.