Nextdoor is the neighborhood hub for trusted connections and the exchange of helpful information, goods, and services. Backed by Greylock, Insight and Kleiner Perkins.
About the role
Nextdoor 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. Download the app and join the neighborhood at nextdoor.com . Found on 1752vc Careers, the job board for startup and VC roles.
What they're looking for
- Design across the full Search journey, organic and sponsored together, from the entry point and typeahead through results, filters, and overall page layout
- Serve the everyday searcher first: most people are hunting for a post, a neighbor, a place, or an answer, and each of those should feel purpose-built rather than squeezed into one generic list
- Define how sponsored and organic results coexist: where ads appear, how they're labeled, how many show up, and when a business has earned its spot
- Help the commercial side grow on local-business queries through experiences neighbors trust, treating relevance as a line revenue never crosses
- Prototype early and often, co-write test hypotheses with your PM and data partners, and let what the experiments show guide what you build next
- 5+ years of product design experience, with substantial time on search, discovery, or other dense, content-heavy surfaces used by large audiences
More about this role
Nextdoor 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. Download the app and join the neighborhood at nextdoor.com .
Search is where a neighbor tells us exactly what they need, and right now we aren't listening well enough. Someone types in a lost dog, a neighbor's name, last week's school thread, or occasionally a plumber, and too often the experience leaves them guessing. After years of under-investment, we're rebuilding Search from the ground up with executive backing and real resources, and you'll be the designer who shapes how it looks, feels, and behaves.
You've designed search or discovery before and can show the results. You think of search as a conversation rather than a list of links: what happens as someone starts typing, how very different kinds of results (posts, people, places, businesses) sit side by side, how a neighbor narrows things down, and what we say when we come up empty....
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