Senior Product Designer, Monetization

Nextdoor is the essential neighborhood network that connects neighbors, public agencies, and businesses. They are seeking a Senior Product Designer to shape tools for local businesses and national advertisers, collaborating with various teams to create user-centered designs that enhance advertising experiences.

Responsibilities:

• Design user-centered tools that empower small businesses to succeed from content creation and posting to advertising and performance tracking
• Craft intuitive, delightful workflows that help SMBs show up in the neighborhood and connect with their local audiences
• Elevate the visual quality of our SMB experiences while ensuring clarity, accessibility, and responsiveness across platforms
• Collaborate closely with product, engineering, sales, marketing, and research to define and deliver scalable solutions that balance business and neighbor needs
• Use insights from research and behavioral data to inform and validate design decisions
• Build for trust, ensuring monetization features feel native to the Nextdoor experience, not disruptive
• Contribute to and evolve our design system, with a focus on business surfaces and cross-platform consistency
• Participate in design critiques, roadmap planning, and occasional in-person events like offsites and team trainings
• Build in-person relationships with team members and contribute to Nextdoor’s company culture

Requirements:

• 8+ years of product design experience, with a track record of delivering highly polished work across complex workflows
• A portfolio that showcases strong visual design, interaction design, and systems thinking especially for business-facing tools
• Deep empathy for SMB users: their challenges, workflows, and goals
• Experience designing across web and mobile platforms (iOS, Android, responsive web)
• Strong skills in hierarchy, layout, color, and typography
• Ability to think holistically about user journeys and touchpoints
• Familiarity with testing, measurement, and iteration based on data and user feedback
• Collaborative mindset and comfort working with cross-functional stakeholders
• Eagerness to explore and apply AI and emerging technologies to reimagine how work gets done
• Experience with self-serve ad platforms or marketing tools (e.g., campaign builders, dashboards, analytics)
• Experience designing products that connect individuals with local businesses or community services
• Comfort designing with AI tools, personalization engines, or recommendations
• Experience in motion studies and interactive prototyping
• Passion for local businesses and neighborhood-based economies