Product Designer

Nextdoor; United States; Hybrid; USD 175,000 - 185,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Equity grant

Health plans (100% employee only)

OneMedical membership

Job summary

Nextdoor is hiring a Product Designer for its Consumer Product organization. You’ll own design end-to-end for your product area, collaborating with product managers, engineers, and researchers to ship intuitive experiences that strengthen communities.

In a hybrid, AI-forward environment, you’ll apply Nextdoor’s design-system components, balance detail with accessibility, and advocate for users from discovery to launch.

Qualifications

• 4+ years of professional experience in user experience and product design.
• Strong production design execution across multiple platforms.
• Attention to detail: contrast, typography, crop, and behavior.
• Strong stakeholder management and ability to navigate ambiguity.
• Fluency with AI-assisted design tooling and judicious use in workflows.
• Deep empathy for customer needs and business problems.
• Experience across strategy, ideation, design, and front-end collaboration.
• Fluency with mobile and responsive web design principles.

Responsibilities

• Own design end-to-end for your product area across iOS, Android, mobile web, and desktop web.
• Build screens, states, and platform-specific treatments that ship great experiences.
• Collaborate with product managers, engineers, and researchers to shape experiences.
• Apply Nextdoor's design-system components correctly and know when to customize.
• Hand off clear, detailed specs to engineering and test on real devices before launch.
• Participate in in-person Nextdoor events and contribute to company culture.

Skills

User Experience

Production Design

Stakeholder Management

AI-assisted Design Tools

Mobile & Web UI

Front-end Collaboration

Job description

#TeamNextdoor

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.

Meet Your Future Neighbors

As a Product Designer for Nextdoor's Consumer Product organization, you'll take full, dedicated ownership of key product areas — from production design through launch. You'll be a key player in driving our design vision, and join a team of designers evolving and improving the user experience of our platform. You'll work alongside product managers, engineers, and researchers to shape experiences that transform how neighbors connect with each other, their neighborhood, and local businesses.

Deeply human-centered and mission-driven, you're excited to create digital experiences that strengthen real-world connections and empower neighbors and their businesses 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. We aren't looking for prompt engineers; we’re looking for people who use tools like Claude, Gemini, ChatGPT, and Glean to challenge their own thinking and take full ownership of AI-assisted outputs.

We also offer a warm and inclusive work environment that embraces a hybrid employment model, blending an in office presence and work from home experience for our valued employees. The hiring team will go over these expectations with you if you are being considered for a role near one of our offices in San Francisco, Los Angeles, Chicago, Dallas, New York, and London.

The Impact You’ll Make

Are you excited by the challenge of fast-paced growth, seeing your designs come to life, and collaborating with a world-class design team? If so, this is the role for you.

You'll own design end to end for your product area, building the screens, states, and platform-specific treatments that ship great experiences to neighbors.

Your Impact:

• Owning production design for your product area across iOS, Android, mobile web, and desktop web
• Setting up a system to track design progress and status against the team's roadmap
• Serving as the go-to design representative in planning meetings and daily check-in, making fast design decisions when needed
• Applying Nextdoor's design-system components correctly, and knowing when a custom, one-off solution is the right call
• Handing off clear, detailed specs to engineering and testing on real devices before launch
• 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

What You’ll Bring To The Team

• 4+ years of professional experience in user experience and product design
• Strong production design execution, you can take a feature from direction to shippable states across multiple platforms
• An eye for the details that matter — contrast, enlarged text, crop, and platform-specific behavior
• Strong stakeholder management skills, help the team navigate ambiguity and set the vision and strategy
• Fluency with AI-assisted design tooling, and clarity on where it helps (spec drafts, coverage tracking) versus where your own judgment is required
• Bring a deep empathy for customer needs and insights as well as an intuitive grasp of the business problems we’re trying to solve
• Comfort working across the product development spectrum: strategy, ideation, concept work, pixel-level details, and front‑end development and implementation
• Fluency with both mobile and responsive web design principles and best practices

Rewards

Compensation, benefits, perks, and recognition programs at Nextdoor come together to create our total rewards package. Compensation will vary depending on your relevant skills, experience, and qualifications.

• The starting salary for this role is expected to range from $175,000 - $185,000 on an annualized basis, or potentially greater in the event that your 'level' of proficiency exceeds the level expected for the role. The salary range will be determined by the candidate’s geographic location.
• We expect to award a meaningful equity grant for this role. With quarterly vesting, your first vest date will take place within 3 months of your start date.
• Nextdoor employees can choose between a variety of health plans, including a 100% covered employee only plan option.
• We also provide a OneMedical membership for concierge care.

When it comes to benefits, we have you covered! Nextdoor employees can choose between a variety of health plans, including a 100% covered employee only plan option, and we also provide a OneMedical membership for concierge care.

In accordance with the San Francisco Fair Chance Ordinance, we always consider qualified applicants with arrest and conviction records.

For information about our collection and use of applicants’ personal information, please see Nextdoor's Personnel Privacy Notice, found here.