#TeamNextdoor

Nextdoor is where you connect to the neighborhoods that matter to you so you can belong. Our purpose is to cultivate a kinder world where everyone has a neighborhood they can rely on.

Neighbors around the world turn to Nextdoor daily to receive trusted information, give and get help, get things done, and build real-world connections with those nearby — neighbors, businesses, and public services. Today, neighbors rely on Nextdoor in more than 305,000 neighborhoods across 11 countries.

Meet Your Future Neighbors

At Nextdoor, we are committed to our mission of creating the neighborhood hub for local communities. The teams within our Neighbor Experience pillar focus on creating the core experiences that drive user growth and engagement. Our Engagement team is responsible for helping neighbors feel connected to their community by surfacing interesting, relevant content and helping them contribute. The team is looking for a data-informed, innovative leader who is excited to help build up the team and deliver impactful experiences by experimenting and learning quickly. 

The Impact You’ll Make

As the Engineering Manager on the Growth team, you will lead a team responsible for expanding Nextdoor’s user base through innovative strategies. Our team achieves that by focusing on driving new traffic to Nextdoor through methods like SEO, person-to-person content sharing, invites, and referrals. You will partner with many other teams to design viral loops and create ways to entice new people to join their neighborhood. Your ultimate goal is to ensure that every new user has a seamless experience that leads to their first magic moment on the platform. By reaching new audiences, you can help create a more vibrant, Active Valued Community, for each neighbor.

Some of the areas of focus include:

• Creating a strategy and prioritizing short-term and longer-term areas of focus on the user growth funnel
• Scaling a growth team culture of strong, data-driven decision-making and quick product iteration.
• Providing technical guidance at the architecture and product levels
• Facilitating collaboration across functional teams such as product, design, engineering, and data science
• Articulating a longer-term architectural vision for feed that can be delivered progressively and incrementally
• Recruit, build, coach, and mentor, reinforcing engineering excellence
• Promoting a culture of feedback and transparent communication

What You’ll Bring To The Team

• 2+ years of people management, leading technical product teams including full-stack, frontend, backend, and/or mobile, preferably on a consumer application with frequent release cycles
• Strong technical background with the ability to set longer-term architectural priorities while maintaining the ability to break those priorities into deliverable milestones
• Ability to drive a strong sense of ownership across the team, build and maintain strong execution cadences, and motivate the team to celebrate wins and learn from experiments
• Experience guiding teams through planning, prioritization, and execution of work
• Collaborative, thoughtful, and strategic leadership; comfortable with open communication and giving/receiving constructive feedback respectfully
• Empathy and customer obsession for collaborating with other infra and product teams across the company

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 seek to serve. We encourage everyone interested in our purpose 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.