Nextdoor · 15 hours ago
Technical Lead Manager - Growth
San Francisco, CA
Full-time
Hybrid
Senior Level, Lead/Staff
$200K/yr - $250K/yr
1+ years expNextdoor is the essential neighborhood network that connects neighbors, public agencies, and businesses around local information. They are seeking a Technical Lead Manager to lead their Traffic team, which focuses on improving user discovery and engagement through various growth strategies and features.
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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
Qualification
Required
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.)
Preferred
Experience with Django Python, React, and Next.js hosted on AWS
Experience with observability using Datadog and/or Sentry
Experience with Server Side Rendering
Benefits
Nextdoor employees can choose between a variety of health plans, including a 100% covered employee only plan option
OneMedical membership for concierge care
Meaningful equity grant for this role
Company
Nextdoor
Nextdoor is a private social networking platform that connects neighbors for them to exchange helpful information, goods, and services.
501-1000 employees
H1B Sponsorship
Nextdoor has a track record of offering H1B sponsorships. Please note that this does not
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Funding
Current Stage
Public CompanyTotal Funding
$723.8MKey Investors
Bond,Riverwood CapitalInsight Partners,RedpointKleiner Perkins,Tiger Global Management
2023-01-17Post Ipo Equity· $18.6M
2021-11-08Post Ipo Equity· $270M
2021-11-08IPO
Leadership Team
Nirav Tolia
Co-Founder and Chief Executive Officer
Michael Kiernan
Chief Revenue Officer
Recent News
2026-01-16
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