Staff Product Manager, Search

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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 350,000 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

As a Product Manager on the Search team, you'll take on one of the most consequential rebuilds at Nextdoor. Search is the most explicit statement of intent a neighbor makes on the platform, and most searches aren't commercial at all: a lost-pet post, a neighbor's name, a school thread from last week, and sometimes a plumber. Search has been under-resourced for years and it shows. That changes now, with executive sponsorship, dedicated investment, and a blank sheet. You'll own the rebuild end to end, organic and monetized search together, from the quality of every result to how sponsored content earns its place on the page.

We're looking for a search expert who has done this before: someone who has owned consumer search, made it measurably better for users, and defined the relevance and quality metrics to prove it. You'll need real commercial literacy too. You've worked shoulder to shoulder with the ads and monetization side, built genuine empathy for why the business needs to extract value from search, and you know firsthand how sponsored content, ad load, and paid-organic blending actually behave. You know that great search monetization makes results better, not worse, and you've seen engagement and revenue grow together when both sides pull in the same direction. This is a multi-year rebuild rather than a tuning exercise, and you won't do it alone: dedicated data science partners, ML engineers with search backgrounds, and design coverage are committed to the team. Ideally, you've also built beyond search and bring the range of a generalist athlete who can flex across consumer, marketplace, and business-facing problems. You'll partner closely with engineering, data science, research, design, and PMM to turn that thinking into shipped experiments with real, measurable impact.

At Nextdoor, we operate in an AI-first environment and expect every team member to actively use AI tools as part of their workflow. We aren't looking for prompt engineers; we’re looking for people who use tools like Claude, Gemini, ChatGPT, and Glean to challenge their own thinking and take full ownership of AI-assisted outputs.

TheImpact You’ll Make

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