Engineering Manager, Nextdoor
Traffic and Activation
$220-285k
+ Equity
Private social network for neighbours
Job no longer available
Private social network for neighbours
501-1000 employees
Job no longer available
$220-285k
+ Equity
501-1000 employees
Company mission
Nextdoor’s mission is to cultivate a kinder world where everyone has a neighbourhood they can rely on.
Role
Who you are
- 2+ years of people management, leading technical product teams including fullstack, frontend, backend, and/or mobile, preferably on a consumer application with frequent release cycles. and/or the ability to perform at an advanced level in the domain
- Strong technical background with the ability to set longer term architectural priorities while maintaining the ability to break those priorities into deliverable milestones
- Ability to drive a strong sense of ownership across the team, build and maintain strong execution cadences, and motivate the team celebrating wins and learning from experiments
- Experience guiding teams through planning, prioritization, and execution of work
- Collaborative, thoughtful, and strategic leadership; comfortable with open communication and giving/receiving constructive feedback respectfully
- Empathy and customer obsession for collaborating with other infra and product teams across the company
What the job involves
- As the Traffic and Activation Engineering Manager on the Growth team, you will lead a team responsible for expanding Nextdoor’s user base through innovative strategies
- Our team achieves that through focusing on driving new traffic to Nextdoor through methods like person to person content sharing, invites, and referrals and helping those new users get value from their first few interactions with the platform
- You will partner with many other teams to design viral loops and create ways to entice new people to join their neighborhood
- Your ultimate goal is to ensure that every new user has a seamless experience that leads to their first magic moment on the platform
- By reaching new audiences, you can help create a more vibrant, Active Valued Community, for each neighbor
- If you want the challenge of fast-paced growth, derive satisfaction from setting team direction and seeing your strategies come to life, and take pride in building a world-class engineering teams, this is the place for you
- As a data-informed leader who values moving quickly, you will drive impactful changes and help shape the future of our growth initiatives
- Creating a strategy and prioritizing short term and longer term areas of focus on the user growth funnel
- Scaling a growth team culture of strong, data driven decision making and quick product iteration
- Providing technical guidance at the architecture and product level
- Facilitating collaboration across functional teams such as product, design, engineering, and data science
- Articulating a longer term architectural vision for feed that can be delivered progressively and incrementally
- Recruit, build, coach and mentor, reinforcing engineering excellence
- Participate in in-person Nextdoor events, trainings, off-sites, volunteer days, and other team building exercises
- Build in-person relationships with team members and contribute to the KIND culture that Nextdoor values
Our take
Nextdoor is a private social network that aims to encourage social interaction between neighbours and make people aware of crime in their area.
The social network has had huge success in the United States and has expanded internationally, with Nextdoor now present in more than 242,000 neighbourhoods around the world.
The company's main competition comes from local Facebook groups, which have become less and less popular due to their comparative lack of functionality. Nextdoor's laser focus on building for neighborhoods has helped them to build a better product, and their advertising partnership with Oracle, launched in 2022, will help bring more transparency to Nextdoor's sponsorships.
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back within 2 weeks
8% employee growth in 12 months
Company
Funding (2 rounds)
May 2019
$129.1m
Dec 2017
$78.8m
Total funding: $207.9m
Company benefits
- Monthly wellness stipend
- 12 weeks of parental, family or medical leave
- Global end of year shutdown
- Learning and development stipend
- Work from home opportunities
- Health insurance
Company values
- Earn trust every day
- Invest in community
- Customer obsessed
- Think big
- Experiment and learn quickly
- Act like an owner
Company HQ
SoMa, San Francisco, CA
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Leadership
Prakash Janakiraman
(Advisor & Co-founder)Graduated from the University of California, Berkeley before working in engineering roles at Google and as the co-founder of Fanbase.com
David Weisen
(Engineer & Co-founder)Worked as a software engineer at Google, Fanbase.com and Open Harbour after graduating from Stanford with a degree in Computer Science
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