Nextdoor
Designer, Search
$175K–$190K
US Remote · Remote · Full-time · Posted Oct 15, 2026
- Experience
- 5+ years of product design experience.
About the job
Design and rebuild Nextdoor’s search experience across organic and sponsored results, helping neighbors find local posts, people, places, businesses, and answers.
What you'll do
- Establish Search’s design principles, patterns, and components, with this as the headline deliverable for the first six months.
- Design the full search journey, including typeahead, results, filters, page layout, and how sponsored results appear alongside organic results.
- Partner with product, data science, ML engineering, and research to prototype and test search experiences, including ranking, query understanding, and low-confidence or empty results.
What they ask for
- Product design experience, with substantial work on search, discovery, or dense content-heavy surfaces for large audiences.
- Portfolio demonstrating problem framing, interaction and visual design, prototyping, and attention to loading, empty, and error states.
- Experience partnering with ads or monetization teams and sound judgment on trade-offs between engagement and revenue.
- Familiarity with HTML, CSS, JavaScript, Swift, Java, or Xcode.
Nice to have
- Breadth across growth, marketplaces, ads, or new-product work.
- Experience designing alongside ML and LLM features.
Pay
$175,000 - $190,000 USD base salary (annualized); potentially greater depending on level of proficiency.
Tools
HTML, CSS, JavaScript, Swift, Java, Xcode, Claude, Gemini
AI focus
Use AI tools such as Claude, Gemini, ChatGPT, and Glean in the workflow, taking ownership of AI-assisted outputs; design alongside ML and LLM features for search.
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