Design Lead, Nextdoor

$240-275k

+ Meaningful equity grant for this role. With quarterly vesting, your first vest date will take place within 3 months of your start date

Figma

Expert level

San Francisco Bay Area

Private social network for neighbours

Open for applications

Private social network for neighbours

501-1000 employees

B2CPrivacyNetworkingSocialSaaS

Open for applications

$240-275k

+ Meaningful equity grant for this role. With quarterly vesting, your first vest date will take place within 3 months of your start date

Figma

Expert 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.

Job

Company

Role

Who you are

Are you excited by the challenge of raising the craft bar for a design team, leading designers toward their next level, and still shipping hands-on work yourself? If so, this is the role for you
10+ years of experience in UX design, product design, or a related field, with a strong track record of designing and shipping user-centered products. Including experience directly managing designers through performance and promotion cycles
A supportive leadership style that cultivates team growth and success
Calibrated craft judgment: you can run a crit, make a leveling call, and defend it in calibration
Proficiency in Figma and other design tools for creating wireframes, prototypes, and high-fidelity designs
Experience working with and contributing to design systems, ensuring consistency and scalability across surfaces
Strong understanding of qualitative and quantitative research methods, with the ability to synthesize insights into actionable design decisions
Comfort holding a design position in rooms with executives, backed by evidence rather than taste
Fluency with AI-assisted design tooling and a clear sense of where it helps and where it can't substitute for human judgment
Join us to design products that make a real-world impact, strengthening communities and bringing people closer together

What the job involves

Running weekly design critiques and rebuilding a healthy manager-level review process so projects of every size get rigorous feedback at the right altitude
Lead, mentor, and grow a team of product designers, fostering a collaborative and innovative work environment. Establishing regular 1:1s and growth plans for a team of consumer designers, and advocating for their growth and promotion during performance review cycles
Owning the design capacity model across seven product areas, managing a team of 5 to 6 consumer designers. Owning the capacity model and the recommendation on where design headcount goes
Representing design's point of view in product discussions where speed and craft are in tension, starting with a key decision about how neighbors filter and navigate content in the app
Arbitrating design-system exceptions, deciding when to say no to a one-off component that doesn't belong in our shared design system
Shipping hands-on design work yourself on at least one high-impact area of the consumer product
Participating in in-person Nextdoor events such as trainings, off-sites, volunteer days, and team building exercises
Building in-person relationships with team members and contributing to Nextdoor's company culture
This role reports directly to the EVP of Product and is the senior-most design voice in the Consumer org

Application process

Please include a portfolio link along with 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 popular due to their limited functionality. Nextdoor's laser focus on building out its app for neighborhoods has helped it to build a better product. Its 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

Glassdoor (3.7)

Trustpilot (1.8)

Company

Funding (2 rounds)

May 2019

$130.1m

Dec 2017

$79.4m

Total funding: $209.5m

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 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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