Design Lead

Nextdoor

San Francisco, United States Posted October 4, 2026

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On-site Full-time Senior
Salary Range

$240,000 - $275,000

Job Description

Join Nextdoor as a Design Lead, where you'll lead and mentor a team of product designers, manage design capacity across multiple product areas, and represent design in product discussions. You'll also have the opportunity to ship hands-on design work and participate in in-person company events. This role reports directly to the EVP of Product and is the senior-most design voice in the Consumer organization.

  • Conduire des critiques de conception hebdomadaires et reconstruire un processus de révision au niveau des gestionnaires.
  • Diriger, encadrer et développer une équipe de designers de produits, en favorisant un environnement de travail collaboratif et innovant.
  • Posséder le modèle de capacité de conception à travers sept domaines de produits, gérer une équipe de designers.
  • Are you excited by the challenge of raising the craft bar for a design team, leading designers toward their next level, and still shipping hands-on work yourself? If so, this is the role for you
  • Fluency with AI-assisted design tooling and a clear sense of where it helps and where it can't substitute for human judgment
  • Proficiency in Figma and other design tools for creating wireframes, prototypes, and high-fidelity designs
  • A supportive leadership style that cultivates team growth and success
  • Join us to design products that make a real-world impact, strengthening communities and bringing people closer together
  • Strong understanding of qualitative and quantitative research methods, with the ability to synthesize insights into actionable design decisions
  • Calibrated craft judgment: you can run a crit, make a leveling call, and defend it in calibration
  • Comfort holding a design position in rooms with executives, backed by evidence rather than taste
  • Experience working with and contributing to design systems, ensuring consistency and scalability across surfaces
  • 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. Including experience directly managing designers through performance and promotion cycles
Required Skills
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