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About the Role
As a Lead Designer on Nextdoor's Consumer Product team, you will shape the future of how neighbors connect with one another, their neighborhoods, and local businesses and events. You will join a collaborative team of designers, product managers, engineers, and researchers working to evolve and improve the experience across our platform. This player-coach role leads craft for Consumer Design, runs rigorous critiques, coaches designers, and ships hands-on work. You are deeply human-centered and mission-driven, excited to create digital experiences that strengthen real-world connections and empower neighbors to build stronger communities. At Nextdoor, we operate in an AI-first environment and expect every team member to actively use AI tools as part of their workflow.
Responsibilities
- 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
Requirements
- 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
- 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
- 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
Skills
- 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
- Fluency with AI-assisted design tooling and a clear sense of where it helps and where it can't substitute for human judgment
Location
- San Francisco
- Los Angeles
- Chicago
- Dallas
- New York
- London
Work Type
- Hybrid
Experience Level
- Lead
- Senior-most
Salary/Compensations
- $240,000 to $275,000
Benefits
- Meaningful equity grant with quarterly vesting
- Variety of health plans, including a 100% covered employee only plan option
- OneMedical membership for concierge care
About the Company
- Nextdoor (NYSE: NXDR) is the essential neighborhood network.
- Neighbors, public agencies, and businesses use Nextdoor to connect around local information that matters in more than 350,000 neighborhoods across 11 countries.
- Nextdoor builds innovative technology to foster local community, share important news, and create neighborhood connections at scale.
Equal Opportunity
- 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.