Senior Product Designer

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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 305,000 neighborhoods across 11 countries.

Meet Your Future Neighbors

Nextdoor is looking for a Senior Product Designer to join our Ads product team. In this role, you’ll design experiences that empower neighbors and businesses to build stronger communities. In particular, you’ll contribute to a new ads-buying platform to serve the needs of local advertisers and businesses, as well as the service and infrastructure needed to deliver delightful ads and monetization experiences to neighborhoods worldwide.

You’re mission-oriented, deeply human-centered, and passionate about creating digital experiences that bring people closer in real life. You’re fascinated by neighborhood dynamics and human behavior and excited to design tools that empower neighbors to build stronger communities and transform how people connect and engage with their local area. You’re ever-curious and let new insights change your mind and inspire new solutions. In this role, you’ll help define the Nextdoor product experience and guide your team towards delivering value.

The Impact You’ll Make

If you crave a challenge in a fast-paced environment, the satisfaction of seeing your design work come to life, and take pride in contributing to the growth of a world-class design team, then this is the place for you!

Your responsibilities will include:

• Define and create new experiences to shape the future of the Nextdoor product as we continue to grow. 
• Envision, design, and ship delightful, user-centered, cross-platform experiences that build the fabric of local communities around the globe. 
• Lead cross-functional brainstorms, discussions, and design reviews.
• Take on challenging projects and turn them into designs that are intuitive, accessible, and user-friendly
• Advance the standard for craft on our team. Ensure design consistency and quality across all platforms and devices.

What You’ll Bring To The Team

• 5+ years of professional experience in user experience and product design, preferably with a focus on monetization and business tools
• Strong sense of empathy for customer needs and insights as well as an intuitive grasp of the business problems we’re solving
• Deep curiosity about empowering neighbors to strengthen communities, understanding how local businesses enhance their communities, and what makes neighborhoods around the world thrive
• Strong stakeholder management skills, help the team navigate ambiguity and set the vision and strategy
• Excellent UX, interaction, and visual design skills
• Proficiency in designing across multiple platforms (iOS, Android, Desktop, Mobile Web)
• Fluency with responsive mobile and web design principles and best practices
• Familiarity with HTML, CSS, JavaScript, Swift, Java, or Xcode
• Detail-oriented and able to iterate on designs based on user feedback and data
• Defines the design process and can lead others through it
• An excellent communicator and committed partner that’s able to balance business outcomes with team needs and healthy, productive cross-functional relationships 
• Detail-oriented and able to iterate on designs based on user feedback and data
• Comfortable working across the product development spectrum: strategy, ideation, concept work, pixel-level details, and front-end development and implementation

Please include a link to your portfolio in addition to your resume. 

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 range from $135,000 to $207,000 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.

Overall, total compensation will vary depending on your relevant skills, experience, and qualifications.

We have you covered! Nextdoor employees can choose between a variety of great health plans. We cover 100% of your personal monthly premium for health, dental, and vision – and 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 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.

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

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