Lead Search Designer for Local Discovery

Nextdoor; United States; Remote; USD 120,000 - 190,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Monthly wellness stipend

Parental leave

Year-end shutdown

Learning stipend

Remote work options

Health insurance

Job summary

Nextdoor is redesigning its Search experience to help neighbors quickly locate posts, people, places, and answers. You will shape the end-to-end experience—from the entry point and typeahead through results, filters, and page layout—with a focus on relevance and trust.

You will work with data science, ML, and research teams to balance sponsored and organic results, run experiments, and drive user-centric improvements for a large audience.

Qualifications

• 5+ years of product design experience on search, discovery, or dense content surfaces
• Portfolio demonstrating end-to-end design across interaction and visual design
• Experience designing for ads or monetization teams and paid placements
• Ability to frame hypotheses, run experiments, and interpret results
• Strong communication and collaboration across PM, data science, ML, and research teams

Responsibilities

• Define design foundation for Search: principles, patterns, components for glanceable results and shared metrics
• Design across the full Search journey: entry point, typeahead, results, filters, and layout
• Prototype early; collaborate with PM, data science, ML engineers, and researchers
• Define how sponsored and organic results coexist and label ads
• Help grow business on local-business queries through relevant, trusted experiences

Skills

Product design

Search / discovery

Prototyping

User research

Cross-functional collaboration

Experimentation

Communication

HTML/CSS/JavaScript familiarity

Tools

HTML

CSS

JavaScript

Swift

Java

Xcode

Job description

Nextdoor is redesigning its Search experience to help neighbors quickly locate posts, people, places, and answers. You will shape the end-to-end experience—from the entry point and typeahead through results, filters, and page layout—with a focus on relevance and trust.

You will work with data science, ML, and research teams to balance sponsored and organic results, run experiments, and drive user-centric improvements for a large audience.