Engineering Manager - Traffic

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Meet Your Future Neighbors

As an Engineering Manager of the Traffic team at Nextdoor, the team will play a critical role in attracting new users by ensuring their initial experiences with our platform are both engaging and valuable. You will lead a talented team of engineers tasked with architecting, developing, and maintaining essential external surfaces, including those involving third-party integrations. Your efforts will focus on growing our organic user acquisition channels and driving intentional traffic to Nextdoor.

As a key player in our team’s efforts, you will oversee the optimization of SEO strategies and other traffic-driving mechanisms, such as content sharing and user invites. This role requires close collaboration with cross-functional partners to effectively support the implementation of cutting-edge solutions.

In your capacity as a technical leader, you will guide your team through complex projects and challenges while managing the professional development and growth of each team member. Your leadership will be pivotal in advancing both the team's objectives and the overall mission of enhancing user experiences on Nextdoor.

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

Your responsibilities will include: 

• Lead and manage a team of engineers
• Work with other Nextdoor product tech to build the next engaging content
• You’ll partner closely with Product and Data Science to deliver and measure product impact
• Make significant technical contributions to presenting content through discovering unique insights in our 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 participate in cross-functional brainstorms, discussions, design reviews and interesting and inspiring design team activities
• Participate in in-person Nextdoor events, trainings, off-sites, volunteer days, and other team building exercises
• Build in-person relationships with team members and contribute to the KIND culture that Nextdoor values  
• Participate in hiring outstanding talent and develop the engineering resources in the organization
• You’ll own and drive operational metrics of the Traffic team

What You’ll Bring To The Team

• 1+ years of people management and/or the ability to perform at an advanced level in the domain
• Track record of hiring, building and developing high performance engineers
• Experience in user-generated content product development
• 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

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 equal 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.

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