Senior Analytics Engineer

Nextdoor is the essential neighborhood network that connects neighbors, public agencies, and businesses. As a Senior Analytics Engineer, you will work to democratize data and reporting to drive strategy and measure performance against KPIs across the business.

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

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
• Experience with Looker or another BI/visualization tool