data
Posted Apr 23Senior Analytics Engineering Manager
at Neighbor
San Francisco, United StatesOn-site
Responsibilities
- Develop and own the vision for Analytics Engineering, delivering curated datasets, dashboards, and internal data products.
- Define outcomes and communicate prioritization, progress, and impact to leadership
- Establish and enforce standards for metrics, data governance, documentation, and SLAs, overseeing data quality with proactive issue resolution through alerting and root-cause analysis
- Build, coach, and elevate a high-performing analytics engineering team, setting clear goals and fostering a culture of inclusion, learning, and operational excellence
- Collaborate closely with data science, finance, marketing, sales, product, and engineering to prioritize the analytics engineering roadmap and drive data-driven decision-making
- Scale data self-service and literacy by expanding documentation, training, and enablement in key tools and dashboards, empowering stakeholders to explore data independently
- Guide architectural and operational excellence across ETL/ELT pipelines, championing best practices in code review and version control for enhanced reliability
- Cultivate a proactive data product builder culture within the team, shifting from a service-oriented approach to identifying needs, recognizing patterns, and implementing solutions in phases
- Build in-person relationships with team members and contribute to Nextdoor’s company culture What You’ll Bring To The Team
- Track record of driving projects end‑to‑end and demonstrating clear outcomes and impact
Requirements
- As a lean yet impactful team, we cover the entirety of the Nextdoor business and excel in cross-functional collaboration to empower company-wide data-driven decision-making.
- Proven ability to define semantic layers and build scalable dashboards;
- experience with Looker (preferred) or other BI/visualization tools, including in tool selection, setup and governance •
- Appetite for applying AI and emerging tools to increase productivity and reimagine how AE teams deliver impact (without sacrificing rigor and decision quality)
- Eagerness to explore and apply AI and emerging technologies to reimagine how work gets done
- Experience with consumer products, user-generated content, and ad-supported business models