Nextdoor is looking to solve the problem of attracting new users and improving how people first discover and engage with the platform, by improving organic traffic growth and intentional traffic to the platform.
Requirements
- 1–3 years of people management experience or Staff/Technical Lead level experience with a strong track record of mentorship and technical leadership
- Proven ability to mentor high-performing engineering teams
- Experience working on growth-related features such as SEO, user-generated content, high traffic, acquisition flows, or sharing surfaces
- Empathy for user needs and a strong grasp of the business problems we're solving
- Experience building or integrating experimentation frameworks and using A/B testing to inform product direction and drive measurable impact
- Comfort working across the product development spectrum: strategy, ideation, concept work, up to the delivery of the consumption experience
- Strong technical judgment and a track record of engineering excellence, including operational rigor (monitoring, alerting, incident response, post-mortems, etc.)
Responsibilities
- Lead and support a small team of engineers focused on organic traffic growth
- Partner with Product, Marketing, and Data Science to build engaging, traffic-driving features - like SEO, content sharing, and user invites - and to measure their impact using insights from data
- Oversee the development of scalable and reliable full stack technologies with a focus on performance that drives millions of interactions each week
- You'll be involved in all aspects of the product development for a major product area; from strategy, research, prototyping, concept to interaction design, to final QA and code tweaks right before launch
- You'll own and drive operational metrics of the Traffic team
- Participate in hiring outstanding talent and develop the engineering resources in the organization
- Participate in in-person Nextdoor events, trainings, off-sites, volunteer days, and other team building exercises
Other
- 1–3 years of people management experience
- Staff/Technical Lead level experience with a strong track record of mentorship and technical leadership
- Bachelor's degree or higher
- Ability to work in a hybrid employment experience, providing a flexible experience for our valued employees
- Participate in in-person Nextdoor events, trainings, off-sites, volunteer days, and other team building exercises
