Product Manager, Nextdoor
Local Business
$175-230k
+ Equity grant
Senior and Expert level
Remote from US
Private social network for neighbours
Be an early applicant
Private social network for neighbours
501-1000 employees
B2CPrivacyNetworkingSocialSaaS
Be an early applicant
$175-230k
+ Equity grant
Senior and Expert level
Remote from US
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
- If you are a systems thinker who loves data, can zoom between 0 to 1 and scale, and are comfortable rolling up your sleeves to unblock teams, this is the opportunity for you
- 5+ years of product management experience in consumer or growth focused roles, with a track record of shipping impact in ambiguous environments
- Demonstrated success owning both 0 to 1 product builds and scaling or optimizing existing products, ideally across marketplaces, lead generation, or multi sided systems
- Required experience working with SMBs or local businesses, such as marketplaces for services, local commerce, or tools that help small businesses grow
- Required experience with subscription or recurring revenue products, including designing for retention, churn reduction, and lifetime value
- Preferred experience building or operating consumer facing products, including understanding engagement loops, retention drivers, and how to build products people use every day
- Strong data and experimentation mindset: comfortable working with data scientists and running experiments, defining success metrics, reading experiment results, and making decisions based on data
- Systems based thinking: ability to model complex ecosystems, identify flywheels, map out dependencies and failure modes, and design products that compound over time instead of creating one off wins
- Experience with marketplaces, lead products, or other multi sided systems is a strong plus, especially where managing supply, demand, and pricing are important
- Proven ability to work cross functionally with Engineering, Design, Data, Operations, Product Marketing, and Comms, and to drive alignment across teams without heavy process
- Comfort moving between strategy and execution: you can set a long term vision, then write clear PRDs, tracking specs, and launch plans and see them through
- Excellent written and verbal communication skills, including the ability to communicate clearly with senior executives, frame tradeoffs, and tell a compelling story grounded in data
- Natural ability to make things happen around you: you manage project ambiguity, complexity, and interdependencies in an organized and structured way, and are willing to roll up your sleeves to unblock the team
- Eagerness to explore and apply AI and emerging technologies to reimagine how work gets done
What the job involves
- As a Product Manager on Local Business, you will build and own key aspects of this ecosystem, across both neighbor and business experiences and our paid offerings
- You will be a generalist PM who can move across surfaces and product stages based on where the opportunity is greatest. Potential areas of ownership include:
- Faves and the broader organic reputation system between neighbors and local businesses
- Neighbor-side discovery experiences such as Search, directories, and recommendation flows
- Business Pages, onboarding, and the business admin experience
- Paid products for SMBs like Opportunity Alerts, a neighbor <> business marketplace
- We will finalize your exact scope based on your experience, strengths, and the highest priority needs of the business
- You will partner closely with Engineering, Design, Data Science, Operations, Product Marketing, and Comms, and you will work across consumer and SMB experiences. This role is remote in the US
- Lead as the Product Owner for one or more Local Business domains across neighbor and business surfaces, from free value to paid offerings
- Build a clear vision, strategy, and roadmap for your areas that connects neighbor value, SMB outcomes, and revenue growth into coherent flywheels
- Design and run experiments across the funnel, using data and user insights to shape hypotheses, validate ideas quickly, and scale what works
- Translate complex systems into simple product experiences, using systems based thinking to map loops, dependencies, and constraints across Local Business, Ads, and Opportunity Alerts
- Ship both 0 to 1 products and meaningful improvements to existing flows, balancing speed and quality and sequencing work to learn fast while building durable foundations
- Work deeply with Data partners to define the metrics hierarchy for your areas, build tracking specs, and instrument end to end journeys across neighbor and business surfaces
- Partner closely with Operations to make sure launches are operationally sound and that we have the right playbooks and guardrails for scaled programs and marketplaces
- Collaborate with Product Marketing and Comms on narratives and GTM, especially for SMB and local business audiences who are new to Nextdoor or to our paid products
- Connect the dots across teams so Local Business, Ads, Opportunity Alerts, and core consumer experiences reinforce one another instead of competing
- Communicate clearly with executives and cross functional partners, bringing structure and clarity to ambiguous spaces and driving alignment on priorities, tradeoffs, and outcomes
- Obsess over the operational health of your products, proactively monitoring key metrics, digging into issues, and partnering with Engineering, Data, and Ops to keep the system healthy
- Participate in in person Nextdoor events, trainings, offsites, volunteer days, and other team activities that build relationships and contribute to the culture we value
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.
Steph
Company Specialist at Welcome to the Jungle
Insights
Top investors
8% employee growth in 12 months
Company
Funding (2 rounds)
May 2019
$133.7m
Dec 2017
$81.6m
Total funding: $215.3m
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 HQ
Tenderloin, San Francisco, CA
Leadership
Nirav Tolia
(Co-Founder & CEO)Is also an Advisor and Investor in Early Stage digital companies and is the Chairman of Hedosophia. Was also a Guest "Shark" on the television series Shark Tank.
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