Visual Product Designer

#TeamNextdoor

Nextdoor (NYSE: KIND) is the essential neighborhood network. Neighbors, public agencies, and businesses use Nextdoor to connect around local information that matters in more than 340,000 neighborhoods across 11 countries. Nextdoor builds innovative technology to foster local community, share important news, and create neighborhood connections at scale. Download the app and join the neighborhood at nextdoor.com. 

Meet Your Future Neighbors

As the Product Designer for Nextdoor's Monetization pillar, you'll be a key player in driving our design vision, and join a small team of designers delivering exceptional outcomes for the businesses and brands on Nextdoor. You’ll work alongside product managers, engineers, and researchers to shape experiences that transform how businesses engage, serve, and convert local audiences. This position reports to the Head of Design, Monetization.

Deeply human-centered and mission-driven, you’re excited to create digital experiences that strengthen real-world connections and empower neighbors and their businesses to build stronger communities. 

At Nextdoor, we 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 Impact You’ll Make

Are you excited by the challenge of fast-paced growth, seeing your designs come to life, and collaborating with a world-class design team? If so, this is the role for you. Please include a portfolio link along with your resume.

Your responsibilities will include: 

• Craft beautiful, polished, and delightful user interfaces that build trust and showcase the power of the Neighborhood Monetization strategy
• Champion user experience design best practices, ensuring that advertising products are intuitive and create delight throughout the user journey
• Collaborate with product managers, engineers, user researchers and other stakeholders to define product vision, strategy and roadmaps
• Contribute to the product design process for the Monetization pillar, including research, prototyping, interaction design, and collaborating on final QA
• Participate in in-person Nextdoor events such as trainings, off-sites, volunteer days, and team building exercises
• Build in-person relationships with team members and contribute to Nextdoor’s company culture

What You’ll Bring To The Team

• 5+ years of professional experience in product design, preferably with a focus on business tools
• Deep sense of empathy for customer needs and insights as well as an intuitive grasp of the business problems we’re solving
• Strong portfolio showcasing user-centric design thinking, polished UI craftsmanship, and innovative interaction paradigms
• Proficiency in designing across multiple platforms (iOS, Android, Desktop, Mobile Web)
• Detail-oriented and able to iterate on designs based on user feedback and data
• Experience with prototyping is preferred

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. Compensation may also vary by geography.

The starting salary for this role is expected to range from $176,000 to $200,000 on an annualized basis, or potentially greater in the event that your 'level' of proficiency exceeds the level expected for the role.

We expect to award a meaningful equity grant for this role. With equal 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.

For information about our collection and use of applicants’ personal information, please see Nextdoor's Personnel Privacy Notice, found here.