Head of Growth Engineering, Nextdoor
$325-400k
+ Equity Grant
Private social network for neighbours
Job no longer available
Private social network for neighbours
501-1000 employees
Job no longer available
$325-400k
+ Equity Grant
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
- If you thrive in a fast-paced environment, excel at building and scaling teams, and are passionate about driving meaningful impact, this is the role for you
- Experience: 3+ years of leadership experience managing organizations of 30+ people, with a proven track record of delivering growth for consumer-facing platforms
- Technical Expertise: Strong engineering background with the ability to guide architectural priorities and balance technical innovation with delivery milestones
- Collaborative Leadership: Empathy-driven, strategic leadership with a focus on fostering open communication and constructive feedback
- Data-Driven Mindset: Proficiency in leveraging data to drive decision-making, measure success, and iterate effectively
- Customer Obsession: Deep commitment to understanding and addressing user needs through thoughtful engineering solutions
- Execution Excellence: Demonstrated ability to prioritize, plan, and deliver high-quality results at scale
- Cultural Leadership: A champion of Nextdoor’s values, contributing to a KIND culture and fostering strong in-person and virtual team connections
What the job involves
- As the Head of Growth Engineering, you will lead a dynamic and impactful team focused on scaling Nextdoor’s user base and engagement
- Growth is at the heart of Nextdoor’s mission to connect neighbors and build stronger communities
- Your team will own the strategy and execution of engineering solutions aimed at driving top-of-funnel user growth, retention, SEO, and platform engagement
- This is a critical leadership role where you will collaborate with cross-functional partners, including Product, Design, and Data, to ideate, prioritize, and deliver growth initiatives
- Your contributions will directly influence the success of our user growth funnel and the ongoing evolution of our platform
- At Nextdoor, we foster an inclusive, collaborative work environment and provide a hybrid work experience to support flexibility for our employees
- As a data-informed engineering leader, you will shape the strategic direction of our growth initiatives and guide your team to execute effectively
- Defining Growth Strategies: Collaborate with Product to determine the highest-impact growth levers across Retention, SEO, and top-of-funnel user acquisition, and drive execution
- Scaling Team Culture: Foster a data-driven, high-velocity culture of experimentation, iteration, and learning within the growth engineering team
- Technical Leadership: Provide technical direction and architectural oversight, ensuring scalable, maintainable solutions align with growth objectives
- Cross-Functional Collaboration: Partner closely with Product, Design, Data Science, and Marketing teams to deliver cohesive, impactful growth initiatives
- Organizational Development: Recruit, build, and mentor a high-performing engineering team, promoting a culture of excellence, accountability, and innovation
- Strategic Vision: Articulate and execute a long-term vision for engineering systems supporting growth, ensuring incremental and measurable progress
- Driving Results: Build ownership and accountability within the team, celebrating successes and learning from experiments
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
$122.5m
Dec 2017
$74.7m
Total funding: $197.2m
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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