Nextdoor
Lead, Design
San Francisco, CA · Senior
Stay score
odds of building a lasting career here
Sponsors, but it's cap-subject — you still face the weighted lottery (~61% per draw at Level IV). Good if you win; have a cap-exempt backup on your list.
Lottery odds assume a STEM candidate.
Personalize to your clock →Employer immigration record
from this employer's Department of Labor filings
Green-card filing pattern in this occupation
Files H-1B transfers
Sourced from Department of Labor LCA, PERM and prevailing-wage disclosure data. Employer matching is by name, so figures may be split across an employer's legal entities. Absence of a filing means none appears in our copy of the data, not that none exists.
Community outcomes
No reports yet — be the first to help the next applicant.
About the role
- #Team Nextdoor 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.
- Download the app and join the neighborhood at nextdoor.com.
Responsibilities
- At Nextdoor, we empower our employees to build stronger local communities.
- To create a platform where all feel welcome, we want our workforce to reflect the diversity of the neighbors we serve.
- Running weekly design critiques and rebuilding a healthy manager-level review process so projects of every size get rigorous feedback at the right altitude
- Lead, mentor, and grow a team of product designers, fostering a collaborative and innovative work environment.
- Owning the design capacity model across seven product areas, managing a team of 5 to 6 consumer designers.
- Owning the capacity model and the recommendation on where design headcount goes
- Representing design's point of view in product discussions where speed and craft are in tension, starting with a key decision about how neighbors filter and navigate content in the app
- Arbitrating design-system exceptions, deciding when to say no to a one-off component that doesn't belong in our shared design system
- Shipping hands-on design work yourself on at least one high-impact area of the consumer product
- Participating in in-person Nextdoor events such as trainings, off-sites, volunteer days, and team building exercises
Requirements
- 10+ years of experience in UX design, product design, or a related field, with a strong track record of designing and shipping user-centered products.
- Proficiency in Figma and other design tools for creating wireframes, prototypes, and high-fidelity designs
Compensation
- The starting salary for this role is expected to range from$240,000 to $275,000 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.
Company info
- 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 encourage everyone interested in our mission to apply.
This listing is sourced directly from Nextdoor's careers page and normalized into a canonical job model.