Head of Design, Nextdoor
Monetization
$241-270k
We expect to award a meaningful equity grant for this role. With equal quarterly vesting, your first vest date will take place within the first 3 months of your start date
Private social network for neighbours
Be an early applicant
Private social network for neighbours
501-1000 employees
Be an early applicant
$241-270k
We expect to award a meaningful equity grant for this role. With equal quarterly vesting, your first vest date will take place within the first 3 months of your start date
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
- Entrepreneurial thinking is a must
- A player-coach at heart, you're as passionate about high-level strategy as you are about crafting and shipping thoughtful design details
- Deeply human-centered and mission-driven, you’re excited to create digital experiences that strengthen real-world connections and empower neighbors and their businesses to build stronger communities
- 10+ years of product design experience, with significant time spent in advertising, marketing tech, or media industries; prior leadership roles required
- Deep understanding of marketing, brand and performance advertising, lead generation, and a passion for supporting small businesses
- Proven expertise across the product lifecycle: strategy, research, ideation, detailed design, and implementation
- A supportive leadership style that cultivates team growth and success
- Exceptional attention to detail and a track record of providing constructive feedback
- Strong background in visual/interaction design, UX/UI, branding & identity, and typography
- An entrepreneurial mindset and experience shipping both 0-to-1 and 1-to-n products
- Familiarity with web and mobile front-end technologies, and application of AI technologies in tooling
- Curiosity and passion for empowering neighbors and understanding global neighborhood dynamics
What the job involves
- As the Head of Design for Nextdoor's Monetization pillar, you'll shape strategy, drive design vision, and lead a small team of designers delivering exceptional outcomes for the businesses and brands on Nextdoor
- From ad creation and management to reporting, analytics, and ad formats, you'll oversee monetization design across the Nextdoor ecosystem
- This includes the envisioning and development of a new product line for small businesses success that is part of NEXT – the next generation user experience of Nextdoor
- You’ll design tools that transform how businesses engage, serve, and convert local audiences
- Curiosity and insights inspire you to rethink challenges and craft innovative solutions
- In this cross-functional role, you'll help define priorities for the Monetization team, delivering impactful product experiences across platforms to shape the future of Nextdoor
- This position reports to the Chief Design Officer
- At Nextdoor, we offer a warm and inclusive work environment that embraces a hybrid employment model, blending an in office presence and work from home experience for our valued employees
- Represent design as a key member of the Monetization leadership team, partnering with senior leaders across product, engineering, data science, and sales to shape the Neighborhood Monetization strategy
- Develop and implement a comprehensive design strategy for advertising and SMB products that enhances user engagement and meets revenue goals
- Lead, mentor, and grow a team of product designers, fostering a collaborative and innovative work environment
- Champion user experience best practices, ensuring that advertising products are intuitive and enhance the overall user journey
- Own the full product design process, from strategy and research to prototyping, interaction design, and final QA for the Monetization pillar
- Participate in in-person events, off-sites, and team-building activities to contribute to Nextdoor’s collaborative and KIND culture
- 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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Company Specialist at Welcome to the Jungle
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Company
Funding (2 rounds)
May 2019
$124.7m
Dec 2017
$76m
Total funding: $200.7m
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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