Senior Product Designer, Nextdoor

Monetization, Micro & Small Business Experience

$158-211k

+Equity

Senior level
San Francisco Bay Area
Nextdoor

Private social network for neighbours

Open for applications

Nextdoor

Private social network for neighbours

501-1000 employees

B2CPrivacyNetworkingSocialSaaS

Open for applications

$158-211k

+Equity

Senior level
San Francisco Bay Area

501-1000 employees

B2CPrivacyNetworkingSocialSaaS

Company mission

Nextdoor’s mission is to cultivate a kinder world where everyone has a neighbourhood they can rely on.

Role

Who you are

  • 5+ years of professional experience in user experience and product design, preferably with a focus on designing for business users
  • A deep understanding of the unique challenges and needs of micro and small businesses, and a passion for building solutions that empower them to grow
  • Experience creating tools or platforms that allow businesses to gain visibility, build leads, and connect with customers through non-advertising channels
  • Strong skills in strategic product thinking, with a proven ability to make data-driven design decisions
  • Excellent UX, interaction, and visual design skills, with a portfolio that demonstrates your ability to create impactful and user-centered business experiences
  • Strong communication skills, able to present and advocate for your design work in front of diverse stakeholders
  • Detail-oriented, capable of ensuring high-quality design output across the platform

Desirable

  • Prior experience working on tools for businesses, particularly those that solve for unique needs like exposure, lead generation, or customer connection outside of advertising
  • A passion for supporting local businesses and fostering strong community ties

What the job involves

  • Nextdoor is looking for a talented Senior Product Designer to join our Monetization team, focused on building impactful tools and experiences for micro and small businesses
  • In this role, you will be at the forefront of designing solutions that address the unique needs of these businesses, enabling them to thrive in their local communities
  • You will shape innovative experiences that go beyond traditional advertising, helping these businesses gain exposure, generate leads, and connect with neighbors in meaningful ways
  • This role is critical as Nextdoor expands its focus on small businesses, especially those in the micro-business segment. These businesses often have distinct challenges and limited resources, and you’ll be designing tools and platforms that empower them to succeed in today’s digital economy, outside of conventional advertising channels
  • 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!
  • Lead the design of tools and experiences that support the specific needs of micro and small businesses to gain visibility and generate leads through non-advertising means
  • Collaborate with cross-functional teams to build experiences that align with the unique business challenges faced by micro businesses
  • Design intuitive and impactful user interfaces that simplify business actions and allow for seamless engagement between local businesses and neighbors
  • Translate business goals into design strategies, while ensuring solutions meet user needs
  • Contribute to the future vision of how Nextdoor empowers small business growth, driving product strategies with long-term impact
  • Lead design discussions, reviews, and workshops, ensuring alignment across product, engineering, and other stakeholders
  • Help shape and maintain design consistency across the platform, ensuring a cohesive experience across all devices

Application process

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

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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Top investors

Few candidates hear
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

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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