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Nextdoor

Designer, Search

Nextdoor

. Establish the design foundation for Search, including principles, patterns, and components .

Posted 10/15/2026full-timeUnited StatesMid-LevelSenior💰 $175,000 - $190,000 per yearWebsite

Tech Stack

Tools & technologies
JavaJavaScriptSwift

About the role

Key responsibilities & impact
  • Establish the design foundation for Search, including principles, patterns, and components
  • Design the full Search journey across organic and sponsored experiences, from entry point and typeahead through results, filters, and page layout
  • Design purpose-built experiences for posts, neighbors, places, and answers
  • Partner with data science, ML engineering, and research on ranking, query understanding, ambiguous queries, empty results, and low-confidence matches
  • Define how sponsored and organic results coexist, including ad placement, labeling, quantity, and eligibility
  • Help grow local-business queries through trusted experiences
  • Prototype frequently and co-write test hypotheses with PM and data partners
  • Use experiment results to guide product decisions

Requirements

What you’ll need
  • 5+ years of product design experience
  • Substantial experience with search, discovery, or other dense, content-heavy surfaces used by large audiences
  • Portfolio demonstrating problem framing, interaction and visual design, prototyping, and loading, empty, and error states
  • Fluency in query understanding, retrieval, and ranking
  • Ability to design alongside ML and LLM features, including failure cases
  • Experience partnering with ads or monetization teams
  • Record of lifting engagement and revenue through design
  • Consumer product instincts and curiosity about local information-seeking behavior
  • Experience framing hypotheses with PM and data science, interpreting mixed results, and recommending what ships
  • Breadth across growth, marketplaces, ads, or new-product work
  • Clear cross-disciplinary communication, bias for action, patience, and drive for a long rebuild
  • Familiarity with HTML, CSS, JavaScript, Swift, Java, or Xcode

Benefits

Comp & perks
  • Meaningful equity grant with quarterly vesting; first vest date within 3 months of start date
  • Variety of health plans, including a 100% covered employee-only plan option
  • OneMedical membership for concierge care
  • Hybrid employment model blending in-office presence and work from home