Senior Search Designer - AI-Driven Local Discovery

Nextdoor; United States; Hybrid; USD 175,000 - 190,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Equity grant

Health plans

OneMedical membership

Job summary

Nextdoor is seeking a Senior Product Designer to shape the Search experience across a dense content surface used by millions of neighbors. You’ll build the design foundation, define how results and ads coexist, and collaborate with data science and ML teams to improve ranking and understanding.

You’ll work in a hybrid setup across multiple US offices, partnering with product, engineering, and monetization to deliver impactful experiences that grow engagement and local relevance.

Qualifications

• 5+ years of product design experience focused on search, discovery, or dense content surfaces.
• A portfolio showing framing, interaction/visual design, prototyping, and edge states.
• Fluency in how search works (query understanding, retrieval, ranking).
• Experience partnering with ads or monetization teams; understand paid content impact.
• Demonstrated ability to lift engagement and revenue through design decisions.
• Strong customer intuition and curiosity about how neighbors seek local information.

Responsibilities

• Establish the design foundation for Search, setting patterns and components.
• Design across the full Search journey: typeahead through results and layout.
• Prioritize the everyday searcher experience with purpose-built interfaces.
• Collaborate with data science, ML engineering, and research on ranking and query understanding.
• Define how sponsored and organic results coexist and are labeled.
• Support growth of local-business queries with trusted experiences.
• Prototype early, write test hypotheses with PM/data partners, and iterate.

Skills

Product design

Search design

Discovery

Prototyping

Cross-functional collaboration

Communication

Tools

HTML/CSS/JS

Swift

Java

Xcode

Job description

Nextdoor is seeking a Senior Product Designer to shape the Search experience across a dense content surface used by millions of neighbors. You’ll build the design foundation, define how results and ads coexist, and collaborate with data science and ML teams to improve ranking and understanding.

You’ll work in a hybrid setup across multiple US offices, partnering with product, engineering, and monetization to deliver impactful experiences that grow engagement and local relevance.