Design Systems Designer

#TeamNextdoor

Nextdoor is where you connect to the neighborhoods that matter to you so you can belong. Our purpose is to cultivate a kinder world where everyone has a neighborhood they can rely on. Neighbors around the world turn to Nextdoor daily to receive trusted information, give and get help, get things done, and build real-world connections with those nearby — neighbors, businesses, and public services. Today, neighbors rely on Nextdoor in more than 275,000 neighborhoods across 11 countries.

Meet Your Future Neighbors

As a Design Systems Designer at Nextdoor, you’ll design digital tools and standards that empower your teammates—designers and engineers—to rapidly build more comprehensive features for Nextdoor. In this role, you’ll define and deliver new experiences across multiple platforms as well as work cross-functionally to shape the future of the Nextdoor product as we continue to grow.
You’ll be part of the growing Design Systems team, a group of designers, engineers, and a product manager who care deeply about building components and tools that enhance the quality, consistency, and accessibility of Nextdoor’s products.

The Impact You’ll Make

If you want the challenge of fast-paced growth, the satisfaction of seeing your design work come to life, and the pride in helping grow a world-class design team, this is the place for you. Please include a link to your portfolio in addition to your resume and cover letter.
You’ll establish and define a level of craft for others to build upon, as we mature our design system.
You’ll work with brand partners to develop, articulate, and maintain consistency of Nextdoor’s visual language across all our platforms.
You’ll help provide tools and services to our product teams and act as a liaison between our design and engineering partners.

What You’ll Bring To The Team

• 5+ years demonstrated experience shipping great mobile products in an agile environment
• Fluency with responsive mobile and web design principles and best practices
• A strong visual design sense and ability to design within, and help define, digital product guidelines
• Joy in the details of design—from animation curves to color palettes, typography to corner radii, and excitement about bringing a new level of polish to our product
• 3+ years experience building design systems in Figma or Sketch, and related development tools (Storybook, DSM)
• Passion for creating rich interactive prototypes with Figma, Framer, Origami, or similar—and helping others learn and prototype more
• Familiarity with HTML, CSS, JavaScript, Swift, Java, or Xcode
• You’re deeply curious about how to empower neighbors to strengthen their communities, how local businesses enhance their communities, and about what makes different neighborhoods around the globe thrive

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.