Senior Visual Designer, Nextdoor
Design Systems
$176-200k
+ We expect to award a meaningful equity grant for this role
Private social network for neighbours
Open for applications
Private social network for neighbours
501-1000 employees
Open for applications
$176-200k
+ We expect to award a meaningful equity grant for this role
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
- 5-7 years demonstrated experience building and shipping design systems across a variety of platforms preferably including work on social networks, or relational models and/or the ability to perform at an advanced level in the domain
- Experience designing robust design systems, including components, design tokens, iconography, typography, animation, pattern libraries and clean documentation
- A strong background in visual design with understanding of how layout, hierarchy, balance, color and balance impact user experience
- Outstanding communication and presentation skills. The ability to both inspire and deliver incredible design systems work
- Bring a deep empathy for customer needs and insights as well as an intuitive grasp of the business problems we’re trying to solve
- Comfort working in a fast paced environment from ideation to delivering pixel-level details for front-end development and implementation
- Fluency with both mobile and responsive web design principles and best practices
What the job involves
- As a Senior Designer on our Design Systems team at Nextdoor, you’ll design digital experiences that empower neighbors to build stronger communities and transform how people connect and engage with their local area
- In this role, you’ll define and deliver new experiences across multiple platforms as well as work cross-functionally to shape the future of the Nextdoor product as we continue to grow
- You’ll work closely with executive leadership to help us define and launch an entirely new design language across our end to end product experience
- You’ll collaborate closely with our marketing team to help elevate our brand identity
- You’ll envision, design, and ship delightful, user-centered, cross-platform experiences that build the fabric of local communities around the globe
- You’ll be involved in all aspects of the product development for a foundational product area; from strategy, research, prototyping, concept to interaction design, to final QA and code tweaks right before launch
- You’ll participate in cross-functional brainstorms, discussions, design reviews and interesting and inspiring design team activities
- 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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Insights
Few candidates hear
back within 2 weeks
8% employee growth in 12 months
Company
Funding (2 rounds)
May 2019
$120.1m
Dec 2017
$73.3m
Total funding: $193.3m
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 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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