Visual Product Designer - Monetization

Nextdoor (NYSE: KIND) is the essential neighborhood network. Neighbors, public agencies, and businesses use Nextdoor to connect around local information that matters in more than 340,000 neighborhoods across 11 countries. Nextdoor builds innovative technology to foster local community, share important news, and create neighborhood connections at scale. Download the app and join the neighborhood at nextdoor.com. 

We’re looking for a Product Designer with a strong eye for visual detail and a portfolio that demonstrates exceptional design craft across complex workflows. This role sits within our Monetization pillar–shaping the tools that empower local businesses and national advertisers to reach neighbors meaningfully and effectively.

As part of a tight-knit design team, you’ll collaborate with product managers, engineers, and researchers to bring elegant, intuitive solutions to life. You’ll help define the visual language of our business tools and elevate the quality of our advertising experiences. This role reports to the Head of Design, Monetization.

Are you passionate about solving hard UX problems and sweating the details in your UI work? Are you energized by building polished, high-visibility surfaces that are used by businesses every day? If so, we’d love to meet you. Please include a link to your portfolio with your application. 

What You’ll Do

• Design visually refined, highly usable interfaces that drive business outcomes and inspire trust
• Create end-to-end workflows across complex tools like campaign creation, ad management, and performance reporting
• Ensure pixel-perfect execution while maintaining usability and clarity in every interaction
• Collaborate cross-functionally with product, engineering, product marketing, sales, and research to deliver solutions that balance customer needs and business goals
• Use qualitative and quantitative research to inform design decisions, working closely with researchers and data analysts to validate hypotheses and refine solutions.
• Advocate for a user-first monetization approach, ensuring that ad experiences integrate seamlessly into core user journeys without disrupting engagement
• Contribute to and evolve design systems, ensuring consistency and efficiency in ad-related UI components across surfaces
• Contribute to in-person Nextdoor moments like offsites, trainings, and culture-building activities

• • 8+ years of professional experience in product design, with a focus on visual polish and system-level thinking
  • A portfolio that demonstrates outstanding visual design within complex product workflows—ideally in tools or platforms used by businesses
  • Proficiency in designing across multiple platforms (iOS, Android, Desktop, Mobile Web)
  • Strong visual storytelling skills and attention to layout, hierarchy, and interaction patterns
  • Ability to balance aesthetics and usability, ensuring interfaces are both beautiful and functional
  • Strong understanding of qualitative and quantitative research methods, with the ability to synthesize insights into actionable design decisions
  • Experience working with and contributing to design systems, ensuring consistency and scalability across surfaces
  • Passion for staying ahead of industry trends, particularly in UX for advertising, personalization, and monetization strategies
  • Eagerness to explore and apply AI and emerging technologies to reimagine how work gets done

Compensation, benefits, perks, and recognition programs at Nextdoor come together to create our total rewards package. Compensation will vary depending on your relevant skills, experience, and qualifications. Compensation may also vary by geography.

The starting salary for this role is expected to range from $176,000 to $200,000 on an annualized basis, or potentially greater in the event that your 'level' of proficiency exceeds the level expected for the role.

We expect to award a meaningful equity grant for this role. With quarterly vesting, your first vest date will take place within 3 months of your start date.

When it comes to benefits, we have you covered! Nextdoor employees can choose between a variety of health plans, including a 100% covered employee only plan option, and we also provide a OneMedical membership for concierge care.

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. We encourage everyone interested in our mission to apply. We do not discriminate on the basis of race, gender, religion, sexual orientation, age, or any other trait that unfairly targets a group of people. In accordance with the San Francisco Fair Chance Ordinance, we always consider qualified applicants with arrest and conviction records.

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