Nextdoor
Staff Product Manager, Search
$170K–$250K
US Remote · Remote · Staff · Full-time · Posted Aug 20, 2026
- Experience
- 7+ years of product management experience.
About the job
Own the end-to-end rebuild of Nextdoor’s consumer search, improving organic results while integrating sponsored placements that balance relevance and revenue.
What you'll do
- Define a success metric for whether neighbors find what they need and use it to guide experiments and launch decisions.
- Lead search improvements across query understanding, retrieval, ranking, result quality, and organic/sponsored placement.
- Partner with data science, ML engineering, design, and other teams to improve user engagement and grow search revenue.
What they ask for
- 7+ years of product management experience, including deep ownership of consumer search at scale and demonstrated user improvements.
- Working knowledge of information retrieval, including query understanding, retrieval, and ranking; experience defining search relevance and quality metrics and shipping ML- or LLM-powered search features.
- Experience owning or closely partnering on search monetization, and a track record of growing engagement and revenue together.
- Experience designing and analyzing A/B tests and making decisions that balance revenue with engagement guardrails.
Nice to have
- Experience shipping in adjacent areas such as growth, marketplace, ads, or 0-to-1 products.
Pay
$170,000 - $250,000 USD base salary
Tools
ML, LLM, Claude, Gemini, ChatGPT, Glean
AI focus
Use AI tools in the workflow and ship ML- or LLM-powered search features.
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