Data Scientist - New Grad 2025

#TeamNextdoor

Nextdoor is where you connect to the neighborhoods that matter to you so you can belong. Our purpose is to cultivate a kinder world where everyone has a neighborhood they can rely on.

Neighbors around the world turn to Nextdoor daily to receive trusted information, give and get help, get things done, and build real-world connections with those nearby — neighbors, businesses, and public services. Today, neighbors rely on Nextdoor in more than 315,000 neighborhoods across 11 countries.

Meet Your Future Neighbors

As a data scientist at Nextdoor, you’ll be responsible for design and oversight of product experiments, own complex analysis to drive company and product strategy, and deploy online and offline models to a production environment. We use a semi-embedded team structure, in which a group of data team members works on a specific product or pillar, interfacing directly with product and engineering stakeholders.

The Data Science group is made up of people from a diverse set of backgrounds and perspectives, trained in fields as wide-ranging as psychology, geology, physics, and statistics. We are the mathematical decision scientists for their product development organization and play an active and collaborative role in building and improving the product.

At Nextdoor, we offer a warm and inclusive work environment that embraces a hybrid employment experience, providing a flexible experience for our valued employees. 

The Impact You’ll Make

At Nextdoor, Data Scientists have the opportunity to work across a wide range of problem areas, including member and small business onboarding, growth, feed ranking, community vitality, monetization, and experimentation.

The work is essential to the growth and success of the company and involves frequent opportunities to deploy code as well as showcase progress to teammates, stakeholders, and company leadership. You will participate in in-person Nextdoor events, trainings, off-sites, volunteer days, and other team building exercises. You will also build in-person relationships with team members and contribute to the KIND culture that Nextdoor values. 

What You’ll Bring To The Team

• Currently pursuing a quantitative degree
• Comfort working in Python or R, including common scientific computing packages and data science tools such as numpy, pandas, and scikit-learn
• Comfort with methods, tools, and packages for statistical modeling and machine learning
• Experience formulating, running, and sharing complex analyses
• Experience architecting, debugging, and executing SQL queries
• Excellent written and oral communication, including ability to effectively communicate complexity to a diverse group of stakeholders
• Curiosity about how things work, from both a business and technical perspective
• A collaborative spirit and a commitment to community
• It’s ok if you don’t have all of these requirements; if you think you’d be a good fit for the role, please get in touch with us!

Bonus Points

• Work experience related to social or community-based products
• Work experience related to small businesses and marketplaces
• Work experience related to advertising and auction systems
• Expertise deploying models to production
• Expertise in testing and evaluating the impact of network effects
• Knowledge of web applications and service-oriented architecture

Rewards

Compensation, benefits, perks, and recognition programs at Nextdoor come together to create one overall rewards package. The starting salary for this role is expected to be $130,000 on an annualized basis, or potentially greater in the event that your 'level' of proficiency exceeds the level expected for the role. Compensation may also vary by geography.

We also expect to award a meaningful equity grant for this role. With equal quarterly vesting, your first vest date would be within the first 3 months of your start date.

Benefits

We’ve got you covered! We are dedicated to supporting your personal and professional growth with a comprehensive benefits package that includes:

• A variety of health plans, and a OneMedical membership for concierge care
• Flexible paid time off
• Dedicated volunteer days
• Monthly wellness stipend
• Mental health support
• Gender affirming care
• Stocked micro-kitchens and lunches at our offices

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 seek to serve. We encourage everyone interested in our purpose to apply. We do not discriminate on the basis of race, gender, religion, sexual orientation, age, or any other trait that unfairly targets a group of people. In accordance with the San Francisco Fair Chance Ordinance, we always consider qualified applicants with arrest and conviction records.