Teams at Nextdoor

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.

Lead technical strategy and architecture for Nextdoor’s monetization platform, building scalable, reliable, secure systems for advertising and subscription products. Partner with Product, ML, Data Science, and Engineering teams to deliver complex initiatives. Improve engineering standards, observability, release safety, and developer productivity while remaining hands-on in implementation, debugging, launches, and production operations. Mentor senior engineers and develop technical leaders.

Design the full Search experience across organic and sponsored results, including typeahead, ranking, filters, empty states, and monetization. Establish design principles and components, partner with product, research, data science, and ML engineering, and use experimentation to improve engagement, relevance, and revenue. The role requires substantial search or discovery design experience, strong product craft, consumer instincts, and comfort designing alongside AI and monetization teams.