Engineering Manager - Ads Reporting

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Nextdoor (NYSE: KIND) 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. Nextdoor builds innovative technology to foster local community, share important news, and create neighborhood connections at scale. Download the app and join the neighborhood at nextdoor.com.

Meet Your Future Neighbors

As a Senior Engineering leader leading Reporting, Measurement, Billing and anti Fraud initiatives within the monetization group at Nextdoor, you'll drive impactful community-focused revenue strategies. In this role you will collaborate with innovative teams, transforming local connections into sustainable growth.

At Nextdoor, we offer a warm and inclusive work environment that embraces a hybrid employment model, blending an in office presence and work from home experience for our valued employees.

The Impact You'll Make

If you want the challenge of fast-paced growth, the satisfaction of seeing your team's work come to life, and the pride in helping grow a world-class engineering team, this is the place for you.

Your responsibilities will include:

  • Technical Leadership - Provide technical guidance towards the development and improvement across a broad area that includes data processing, APIs, attribution modeling, privacy, billing and other third party integrations
  • Team development - Build a high performing engineering organization and foster a culture of excellence and continuous improvement through focus on each individual, team culture and the creation of sustainable processes that enable predictability and increase quality
  • Product strategy and execution - Partner and negotiate across engineering, product, legal, privacy and sales teams on strategy and execution

What You'll Bring To The Team

  • 10+ years demonstrated experience building advertising or consumer products
  • Experience in advertising domain
  • 3+ years in a people leadership role
  • Ability to build scalable engineering systems
  • Effective communication and cross-team collaboration
  • Ability to influence product strategy and achieve alignment with business goals
  • Experience coaching senior ICs
  • Experience managing remote teams
  • Intellectual honesty, genuine curiosity and a hunger for learning
  • Strong desire to serve local communities and neighbors worldwide

Bonus Points

  • Proven experience in data-driven product development and experimentation, consistently enhancing product performance.
  • Familiarity with statistical modeling, machine learning, and data analysis
  • Knowledge of privacy-preserving data analysis methods

Rewards

Compensation, benefits, perks, and recognition programs at Nextdoor come together to create our total rewards package. Compensation will vary depending on your relevant skills, experience, and qualifications. Compensation may also vary by geography.

The starting salary for this role is expected to range from $221,000 - $284,000 on an annualized basis, or potentially greater in the event that your 'level' of proficiency exceeds the level expected for the role.

We expect to award a meaningful equity grant for this role. With quarterly vesting, your first vest date will take place within 3 months of your start date.

When it comes to benefits, we have you covered! Nextdoor employees can choose between a variety of health plans, including a 100% covered employee only plan option, and we also provide a OneMedical membership for concierge care.

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. We encourage everyone interested in our mission 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.

For information about our collection and use of applicants' personal information, please see Nextdoor's Personnel Privacy Notice, found here.

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