Designer, Search

US Remote · USD 175,000-190,000 · 5+ years experience · Remote · Posted Oct 15, 2026

At a glance

Nextdoor is rebuilding Search from the ground up and looking for a designer to shape how it looks, feels, and behaves.
This role involves designing across the full search journey, integrating organic and sponsored content together from typeahead through results and filters.

Establish the design foundation for Search, including principles, patterns, and components.
Design across the full Search journey, organic and sponsored together, from entry point and typeahead through results, filters, and overall page layout.
Serve the everyday searcher first so that posts, neighbors, places, and answers feel purpose-built.
Work hand in hand with data science, ML engineering, and research so that smarter ranking and query understanding show up clearly in the interface.
Define how sponsored and organic results coexist, including placement, labeling, frequency, and business representation.
Help the commercial side grow on local-business queries through trusted experiences.
Prototype early and often, co-write test hypotheses with your PM and data partners, and let experiment results guide future builds.

5+ years of product design experience, with substantial time on search, discovery, or other dense, content-heavy surfaces used by large audiences.
A portfolio that shows full-range craft: framing the problem, interaction and visual design, prototyping, and care for unglamorous states like loading, empty, and error.
Fluency in how search works to design alongside ML and LLM features, including handling errors and failures.
Experience partnering with ads or monetization teams, and a point of view on paid content.
A record of lifting engagement and revenue through design, with sound judgment about trade-offs between them.
Sharp consumer instincts and curiosity about how people look for local information.
Comfort designing for experimentation, framing hypotheses with PM and data science, interpreting mixed results, and recommending what ships.
Breadth across areas like growth, marketplaces, ads, or new-product work, and adaptability to shift priorities.
Clear communication across disciplines, a bias for action, and patience and drive for a long rebuild.
Familiarity with HTML, CSS, JavaScript, Swift, Java, or Xcode.

Embraces a hybrid employment model blending in-office presence and work-from-home experience for employees near Nextdoor offices.