Senior Product Manager, Search

Nextdoor

Senior Product Manager rebuilding organic and monetized search for Nextdoor’s neighborhood network. Improving relevance, user engagement, and local-business revenue through measurable experiments.

Posted 8/20/2026full-timeRemote • 🇺🇸 United StatesSenior💰 $170,000 - $230,000 per yearWebsite

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Core Competencies

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Demonstrates expertise in product management with a focus on consumer search, including defining metrics for search relevance and quality. Proven ability to collaborate cross-functionally and ship impactful ML-powered search features while balancing revenue and engagement metrics.

Highest-signal resume keywords

Product Management ExperienceInformation Retrieval FundamentalsSearch Relevance MetricsML-Powered Search FeaturesCross-Functional Communication

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Hard Skills

Consumer Search OwnershipQuery UnderstandingSearch RankingA/B Testing DesignRevenue Metrics Balancing

Soft Skills

Strong Product InstinctsCollaboration

Tools & Technologies

AI ToolsClaudeGeminiChatGPTGlean

Industry Keywords

Search MonetizationEngagement GrowthCommercial QueriesSponsored ContentOrganic Search

About the role

Key responsibilities & impact

Define the metric showing whether a neighbor found what they came for and make it the basis for experiments and ship decisions
Own the Search rebuild end to end across organic and monetized search
Improve search for posts, people, places, and answers
Partner with data science and ML engineering on query understanding, retrieval, and ranking
Design the blending of organic and sponsored content, including placement, ad load, relevance thresholds, and monetization-eligibility routing
Grow revenue on commercially oriented queries while maintaining relevance as a guardrail
Collaborate with engineering, data science, research, design, and PMM
Ship experiments with measurable impact

Requirements

What you’ll need

7+ years of product management experience
Deep ownership of consumer search at scale
Working knowledge of information retrieval fundamentals, including query understanding, retrieval, and ranking
Experience defining search relevance and quality metrics from scratch
Experience shipping ML- or LLM-powered search features
Experience working directly with search monetization, ads, and revenue teams
Track record of growing engagement and revenue together
Strong consumer product instincts from shipping experiences used at scale
Strong track record designing and analyzing A/B tests
Experience balancing revenue metrics against engagement guardrails
Experience shipping in adjacent areas such as growth, marketplace, ads, or 0-to-1 products
Excellent cross-functional communication skills
Active use of AI tools such as Claude, Gemini, ChatGPT, and Glean as part of the workflow

Benefits

Comp & perks

Meaningful equity grant with quarterly vesting
First equity vest date within 3 months of start date
Variety of health plans, including a 100% covered employee-only plan option
OneMedical membership for concierge care
Recognition programs
Inclusive, non-discriminatory workplace