Head of Business Technology, Nextdoor
$215-295k
Expects to award a meaningful equity grant for this role. With equal quarterly vesting, your first vest date would be within the first 3 months of your start date
Private social network for neighbours
Job no longer available
Private social network for neighbours
501-1000 employees
Job no longer available
$215-295k
Expects to award a meaningful equity grant for this role. With equal quarterly vesting, your first vest date would be 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
- A minimum of 10 years of experience in a similar field, demonstrating expertise in managing IT platforms and business systems
- Strong technical and functional background in Enterprise Resource Planning (ERP) and Customer Relationship Management (CRM) systems
- Proven experience in managing larger scale implementations, demonstrating your ability to handle complex projects
- A track record of driving cross-team and cross-organizational change while effectively aligning diverse stakeholders
- Experience in building or working closely with teams that develop internal systems, showcasing your capacity to cultivate collaborative and innovative environments
- Servant leadership skills with an emphasis on mentoring and coaching team members to foster professional growth and high performance
What the job involves
- As the Head of Business Technology at Nextdoor, you will join a dynamic team that includes Business Systems Leads and a Corporate IT Lead
- Your primary focus will be on managing the corporate IT function at Nextdoor and overseeing business systems such as people, finance, and CRM systems
- You will be responsible for maintaining and managing IT platform infrastructure, including JAMF, OKTA, GSuite Administrator, Slack, and fleet management, as well as the Salesforce and Workday platforms that support our business systems
- This role is pivotal in ensuring seamless operation and strategic advancement of our internal technology landscape
- As the Head of Business Technology, you will play a crucial role in leading and managing a team, driving the strategic direction of our IT and business systems, and ensuring their optimal performance and integration
- Your contributions will support our organizational goals and enhance our technology capabilities
- Collaborate closely with Accounting, People, Finance, Rev Ops, IT and other support functions to build a world class technology footprint to enable efficiency at scale and to allow for the company to remain nimble as we grow
- Manage the technology budget, including forecasting, resource allocation, and cost optimization
- Manage procurement of company’s software spend, including vendor management and contract negotiations
- Stay on top of emerging technology trends and assess their potential impact on the business
- Ensure compliance with Sox/ITGC standards, and best practices in technology management
- Lead, mentor, and develop a high-performing technology team
- Knowledge in Workday ERP or HCM is a plus
- Oversee stakeholder management and align technical and strategic objectives
- Develop and maintain a strategy roadmap for the IT function and business systems
- Set Objectives and Key Results (OKRs) and goals to drive team performance
- Oversee IT assets logistics, asset management, and helpdesk operations
- 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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Company
Funding (2 rounds)
May 2019
$123.3m
Dec 2017
$75.2m
Total funding: $198.5m
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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