Product Designer - Monetization SMB

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Meet Your Future Neighbors

We’re looking for a Product Designer with a strong eye for visual detail and a portfolio that demonstrates exceptional design craft across complex workflows. This role sits within our Monetization pillar–shaping the tools that empower local businesses and national advertisers to reach neighbors meaningfully and effectively.

As part of a tight-knit design team, you’ll collaborate with product managers, engineers, and researchers to bring elegant, intuitive solutions to life. You’ll help define the visual language of our business tools and elevate the quality of our advertising experiences. This role reports to the Head of Design, Monetization.

The Impact You’ll Make 

You’ll design with purpose and empathy for SMB owners juggling multiple roles, for neighbors seeking trusted local recommendations, and for a platform that’s deeply rooted in real-life communities. This role is an opportunity to elevate the quality of our SMB tools while keeping them accessible, actionable, and neighbor-first.

We’re looking for someone who loves polishing the details, understands the constraints of SMBs, and is energized by building products that help local businesses grow.

Please include a portfolio with examples of polished, end-to-end design work ideally focused on business tools or community-driven platforms.

Your responsibilities will include: 

• Design user-centered tools that empower small businesses to succeed from content creation and posting to advertising and performance tracking
• Craft intuitive, delightful workflows that help SMBs show up in the neighborhood and connect with their local audiences
• Elevate the visual quality of our SMB experiences while ensuring clarity, accessibility, and responsiveness across platforms
• Collaborate closely with product, engineering, sales, marketing, and research to define and deliver scalable solutions that balance business and neighbor needs
• Use insights from research and behavioral data to inform and validate design decisions
• Build for trust, ensuring monetization features feel native to the Nextdoor experience, not disruptive
• Contribute to and evolve our design system, with a focus on business surfaces and cross-platform consistency
• Participate in design critiques, roadmap planning, and occasional in-person events like offsites and team trainings
• Build in-person relationships with team members and contribute to Nextdoor’s company culture

What You’ll Bring

• 8+ years of product design experience, with a track record of delivering highly polished work across complex workflows
• A portfolio that showcases strong visual design, interaction design, and systems thinking especially for business-facing tools
• Deep empathy for SMB users: their challenges, workflows, and goals
• Experience designing across web and mobile platforms (iOS, Android, responsive web)
• Strong skills in hierarchy, layout, color, and typography
• Ability to think holistically about user journeys and touchpoints
• Familiarity with testing, measurement, and iteration based on data and user feedback
• Collaborative mindset and comfort working with cross-functional stakeholders
• Eagerness to explore and apply AI and emerging technologies to reimagine how work gets done

Bonus

• Experience with self-serve ad platforms or marketing tools (e.g., campaign builders, dashboards, analytics)
• Experience designing products that connect individuals with local businesses or community services
• Comfort designing with AI tools, personalization engines, or recommendations
• Experience in motion studies and interactive prototyping
• Passion for local businesses and neighborhood-based economies

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 $176,000 - $200,000 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.

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