Note: The job is a remote job and is open to candidates in USA. Nextdoor is a neighborhood network that connects neighbors, public agencies, and businesses around local information and community relationships. The Product Designer will own end-to-end production design for key consumer product areas across mobile and web platforms, collaborate with cross-functional teams, and help shape user experiences that strengthen real-world connections.
Responsibilities
- 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-ins, 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
Skills
- Please include a portfolio link along with your resume
- 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
Benefits
- Hybrid employment model, blending an in office presence and work from home experience
- A meaningful equity grant for this role, with quarterly vesting and the first vest date within 3 months of the start date
- A variety of health plans, including a 100% covered employee only plan option
- A OneMedical membership for concierge care
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