Product Designer

Nextdoor (NYSE: NXDR) is the essential neighborhood network. Neighbors, public agencies and businesses use Nextdoor to connect around local information that matters in more than 340,000 neighborhoods across 11 countries. Nextdoor builds innovative technology to foster local community, and brands and businesses of all sizes use Nextdoor’s proprietary advertising platform to engage with neighborhoods at scale. Download the app and join the neighborhood at nextdoor.com. 

As a Product Designer for Nextdoor's Consumer Product organization, you'll be a key player in driving our design vision, and join a small team of designers evolving and improving the user experience of our platform. You’ll work alongside product managers, engineers, and researchers to shape experiences that transform how neighbors connect with each other, their neighborhood, and local businesses and events. This position reports to the Design Lead, Consumer Product.

Deeply human-centered and mission-driven, you’re excited to create digital experiences that strengthen real-world connections and empower neighbors to build stronger communities.

Are you excited by the challenge of fast-paced growth, seeing your designs come to life, and collaborating with a world-class design team? If so, this is the role for you. Please include a portfolio link along with your resume.

Your Impact: 

• Lead design and UX strategy for Nextdoor’s core product experience: the feed. You’ll work to balance user needs, business goals, and technical constraints to drive measurable impact
• Use qualitative and quantitative research to inform design decisions, working closely with researchers and data analysts to validate hypotheses and refine solutions
• Develop and refine user flows, wireframes, and prototypes that improve feed engagement, and retention while creating a positive user experience
• Advocate for a user-first approach, ensuring that the feed drives real value for neighbors
• Deeply understand the metrics that we use, and advance design solutions that support measurable goals while keeping an eye on the big picture
• Mentor and guide other designers, providing feedback, sharing best practices, and fostering a culture of continuous learning within the team
• Contribute to and evolve design systems, ensuring consistency and efficiency in feed-related UI components across surfaces
• Influence product and business decisions by effectively communicating UX rationale to stakeholders, including executives, through storytelling and data-driven insights
• Drive experimentation and A/B testing efforts, collaborating with product and analytics teams to measure and optimize the effectiveness of UX improvements
• Ensure accessibility and inclusivity in the user experience by following best practices and advocating for diverse user perspectives
• Stay ahead of industry trends in advertising UX, AI-driven personalization, and visual design to inform innovation and future roadmap planning

• 8+ years of experience in UX design, product design, or a related field, with a strong track record of designing and shipping user-centered products
• Deep expertise in interaction design, information architecture, and usability principles, with a portfolio demonstrating impactful work in complex systems
• Strong understanding of qualitative and quantitative research methods, with the ability to synthesize insights into actionable design decisions
• Proficiency in Figma and other design tools for creating wireframes, prototypes, and high-fidelity designs
• Experience working with and contributing to design systems, ensuring consistency and scalability across surfaces
• Ability to lead design strategy and influence cross-functional teams, including product managers, engineers, marketers, and data scientists
• Strong storytelling and communication skills, with the ability to articulate design rationale and advocate for user needs to senior stakeholders
• Experience conducting A/B tests and working with analytics tools (e.g., Statsig, Google Analytics, Mixpanel) to measure the impact of design decisions
• Passion for staying ahead of industry trends, particularly in UX for social media

• Experience using AI tools to build working prototypes and validate ideas
• Experience working on engagement-driven social media products
• Background in UX research

Join us to design products that make a real-world impact, strengthening communities and bringing people closer together. 

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 $200,000 to $225,000 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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