Senior Engineering Manager - Feed UX

Nextdoor•San Francisco, CA

About The Position

Nextdoor (NYSE: NXDR) 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 Nextdoor exists to build trusted connections in local communities, and the Consumer organization is responsible for the core product experiences that make those connections possible. Our teams focus on helping neighbors discover relevant content, participate in local conversations, and return to Nextdoor as a daily habit. The Feed UX team sits at the center of this mission. We are responsible for how content is created, surfaced, and experienced across the home feed, shaping the primary way neighbors engage with the product. We are looking for a senior engineering leader who brings strong product instincts, cares deeply about consumer experience, and is excited to grow high performing teams while delivering meaningful impact at company scale. The Impact You’ll Make As a Senior Engineering Manager on the Feed UX team, you will lead the team responsible for the home feed and the full content creation and lifecycle experience on Nextdoor. This role sits at the intersection of product strategy, technical execution, and people leadership, with direct influence on one of the most critical surfaces for engagement across the company. You will work together with your team to facilitate strong collaboration across product, design, engineering, and data science partners to translate product vision into clear technical direction and shipped outcomes. You will ensure teams are aligned on priorities, execution plans, and success metrics, while maintaining project health and visibility through effective planning and delivery practices. You will be accountable for the quality, reliability, and timeliness of software shipped to millions of neighbors. This includes providing technical guidance at both the architecture and product level, helping teams make sound tradeoffs, and building systems that scale as the platform and product evolve. A core part of your impact will be growing people and teams. You will coach, and mentor engineers, reinforce a high bar for engineering excellence, and create an environment where feedback is frequent, transparent, and constructive.

Requirements

Strong people management fundamentals, including one on ones, feedback, delegation, and coaching
Experience managing multiple engineering teams, typically supporting multiple full stack pods
Strong product intuition with experience building and shipping consumer mobile products at scale
Ability to influence and collaborate effectively with cross functional partners across product, design, data science, and business
Technical background with the ability to guide architecture, planning, and execution
Proven ability to grow, and retain engineering talent while maintaining a high bar for quality and delivery

Nice To Haves

Experience using data to guide decisions through experimentation, metrics, and analysis
Proclivity for driving measurable product and business results
Experience working on social or community driven platforms

Responsibilities

Lead the team responsible for the home feed and the full content creation and lifecycle experience on Nextdoor.
Facilitate strong collaboration across product, design, engineering, and data science partners to translate product vision into clear technical direction and shipped outcomes.
Ensure teams are aligned on priorities, execution plans, and success metrics, while maintaining project health and visibility through effective planning and delivery practices.
Be accountable for the quality, reliability, and timeliness of software shipped to millions of neighbors.
Provide technical guidance at both the architecture and product level, helping teams make sound tradeoffs, and building systems that scale as the platform and product evolve.
Coach, and mentor engineers, reinforce a high bar for engineering excellence, and create an environment where feedback is frequent, transparent, and constructive.

Benefits

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.

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