We also 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. The hiring team will go over these expectations with you if you are being considered for a role near one of our offices in San Francisco, Los Angeles, Chicago, Dallas, New York, and London.
The Impact You’ll Make
Are you excited by the challenge of raising the craft bar for a design team, coaching designers toward their next level, and still shipping hands-on work yourself? If so, this is the role for you. Please include a portfolio link along with your resume.
Your responsibilities will include
Running weekly design critiques and rebuilding a healthy manager-level review process so projects of every size get rigorous feedback at the right altitude
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
What You’ll Bring To The Team
8+ 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 track record as a player-coach, practicing designer and people manager at once, with the discipline to protect your own IC time
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.
Rewards
Compensation, benefits, perks, and recognition programs at Nextdoor come together to create our total rewards package. Compensation will vary depending on your relevant skills, experience, and qualifications.
The starting salary for this role is expected to range from$240,000 to $275,000 on an annualized basis, or potentially greater in the event that your 'level' of proficiency exceeds the level expected for the role. The salary range will be determined by the candidate’s geographic location.
We expect to award a meaningful equity grant for this role. With quarterly vesting, your first vest date will take place within 3 months of your start date.
When it comes to benefits, we have you covered! Nextdoor employees can choose between a variety of health plans, including a 100% covered employee only plan option, and we also provide a OneMedical membership for concierge care.
At Nextdoor, we empower our employees to build stronger local communities. To create a platform where all feel welcome, we want our workforce to reflect the diversity of the neighbors we serve. We encourage everyone interested in our mission to apply. We do not discriminate on the basis of race, gender, religion, sexual orientation, age, or any other trait that unfairly targets a group of people. In accordance with the San Francisco Fair Chance Ordinance, we always consider qualified applicants with arrest and conviction records.
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