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 (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
- Own the Search rebuild end to end, organic and monetized together, from query understanding and retrieval to ranking, result quality, and how the page comes together
- Make the majority of searches work: most queries are a neighbor looking for a post, a person, a place, or an answer, with no commercial intent, and today we fail them too often
- Partner with dedicated data science and ML engineering on query understanding, retrieval, and ranking, going deep on the mechanics when the details matter
- Design how organic and sponsored content blend on the page, including placement, ad load, relevance thresholds, and monetization-eligibility routing, so paid results appear only where a business is the genuine answer
- Grow revenue on the minority of queries with commercial intent, connecting neighbors to local businesses through organic and sponsored placements, with relevance as the guardrail revenue never overrides
- 7+ years of product management experience, including deep ownership of consumer search at scale and clear wins in making it better for users
More about this 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 .
As a Product Manager on the Search team, you'll take on one of the most consequential rebuilds at Nextdoor. Search is the most explicit statement of intent a neighbor makes on the platform, and most searches aren't commercial at all: a lost-pet post, a neighbor's name, a school thread from last week, and sometimes a plumber. Search has been under-resourced for years and it shows. That changes now, with executive sponsorship, dedicated investment, and a blank sheet. You'll own the rebuild end to end, organic and monetized search together, from the quality of every result to how sponsored content earns its place on the page.
We're looking for a search expert who has done this before: someone who has owned consumer search, made it measurably better for users, and defined the...
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