## TeamNextdoor

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.

Meet Your Future Neighbors

We are looking for an Engineering Manager to lead our high-impact Traffic Team. This team is on the front line of growth: the features you ship will be the very first touchpoint for millions of new users joining Nextdoor.

As the manager of this talented group, you’ll:

Attract and engage new users globally by evolving our user acquisition and SEO strategies.
Oversee the design, development, and maintenance of external integrations and sharing experiences that drive traffic to and from Nextdoor.
Lead, mentor, and support a team of engineers, guiding their growth and development.
Partner cross-functionally with world-class product, data, and design peers to deliver, measure, and continuously optimize high-impact features.

The organization that Traffic team sits in is a widely remote organization with main hubs in San Francisco and New York. The preferred location for this candidate is in San Francisco but we are open to outstanding candidates in New York or looking to relocate.

At Nextdoor, we offer a warm and inclusive work environment that embraces a hybrid employment experience, providing a flexible experience for our valued employees.

The Impact You’ll Make

Lead and inspire a team of engineers responsible for building and maintaining critical onboarding and traffic-driving features
Develop and execute strategies to grow organic traffic—including SEO, content sharing, user invites, and third-party integrations
Guide your team in delivering reliable, high-scale full stack solutions that serve millions of interactions each week
Discover unique data insights to enhance and personalize content experiences for our users
Collaborate closely with Product, Data Science, and Design to deliver measurable results and delight our community
Mentor, recruit, and develop engineering talent to build a high-performing, engaged team
Drive operational excellence by setting and achieving key metrics for the Traffic team
Participate in cross-functional brainstorms, design reviews, and inspiring team activities—both virtually and in person
Engage in company culture through events, volunteer days, and team-building exercises, fostering strong, in-person relationships within our KIND culture
Play a key role throughout the entire product development lifecycle—from strategy and prototyping to launch and iteration

What You’ll Bring To The Team

2+ years experience managing engineering teams, with a proven ability to hire and develop high-performing engineers—ideally within growth-focused or consumer product environments
Experience with A/B testing and growth experimentation frameworks
Experience in user-generated content product development is a plus
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, up to the delivery of the consumption experience
Track record of engineering excellence and operations (monitoring, alarming, sev, post-mortem, etc) for your team
Eagerness to explore and apply AI and emerging technologies to reimagine how work gets done

Rewards

Compensation, benefits, perks, and recognition programs at Nextdoor come together to create one overall rewards package.

The starting salary for this role is expected to range from $220,000 - $270,000 on an annualized basis, or potentially greater in the event that your level of proficiency exceeds the level expected for the role. Compensation may also vary by geography.

We also expect to award a meaningful equity grant for this role. With quarterly vesting, your first vest date would be within the first 3 months of your start date.

Overall, total compensation will vary depending on your relevant skills, experience, and qualifications.

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 seek to serve. We encourage everyone interested in our purpose 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.

For information about our collection and use of applicants’ personal information, please see Nextdoors Personnel Privacy Notice, found here.