# Lead, Design at Nextdoor

- Company: Nextdoor
- What the company does: Nextdoor is the neighborhood hub for trusted connections and the exchange of helpful information, goods, and services. Backed by Greylock, Insight and Kleiner Perkins.
- Company website: https://nextdoor.com/
- Type: Startups
- Level: Senior
- Location: US Remote
- Work setup: Remote
- Pay: $240K to $275K base salary per year (USD)
- Posted: 2026-08-19
- Apply by: 2026-10-12
- Apply: https://about.nextdoor.com/careers-list/?gh_jid=8140477
- Page: https://www.1752.vc/careers/jobs/nextdoor-lead-design-2/

## About the role

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. Download the app and join the neighborhood at nextdoor.com .

## What they're looking for

- 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

Tags: Product Design