Nextdoor is hiring: Marketing Director in Chicago
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#Team Nextdoor 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 340,000 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 At Nextdoor, we believe in the transformative power of community. As the Marketing team, we are responsible for communicating our brand in a way that demonstrates its value in a clear and differentiated way, inspiring our neighbors and customers to engage on platform and ultimately, build a sense of community off platform. We feel a responsibility for the neighbor and business experience and partner across the company to continuously drive improvement. We are a lean but powerful team, each of us with a diverse opinion and perspective because that's what we seek out and respect in others.
As Marketing Director reporting into Nextdoor's Co-Founder and Head of Marketing, Community & Operations, you are a critical leader on the marketing team who will be instrumental in helping to drive our mission forward.
The Impact You'll Make As a strategic, values aligned marketing leader, you bring expertise in product and core marketing, you understand how to partner deeply with product, design, revenue, and international teams to launch campaigns that drive global engagement and growth across both B2C and B2B.
Our ideal candidate is a right brain and left brain combo - a creative and strategic thinker who transforms customer and market insights into marketing plans with measurable results. You'll advocate for customers, turn Nextdoor's vision into effective go-to-market campaigns, and lead across functions to shape our marketing efforts during a pivotal chapter at Nextdoor. You are curious, analytical, resourceful and creative. You bring nimbleness, innovation, and urgency, the ability to think big picture, while also being hands-on. You thrive on collaboration and inspiring high-performing teams to reach their full potential.
Your responsibilities will include:
Building effective SMB/Mid-Market GTM and growth strategies
Developing strategic marketing with compelling business cases
Creating positioning, messaging, and go-to-market plans driving product adoption
Championing customer voice to inform product roadmaps and marketing plans
Executing creative consumer campaigns with measurable results
Collaborating with marketing and community peers on business objectives
Fostering a "test and learn" culture for scalable, innovative experiments
Thinking globally while enabling integrated marketing campaigns
Using emerging AI technologies and tools that can help accelerate marketing efforts
Leading and nurturing a best-in-class team
What You'll Bring to The Team 15+ years of marketing expertise with product focus, people management, and tech experience in fast-growth organizations
Proven B2C and B2B product marketing chops; SMB experience is a plus
Experience with growth marketing
Deep understanding of the digital product lifecycle
Track record of creating campaigns with measurable impact
Creative and innovative breakthrough ideas that are uniquely suited to our business
Exceptional writing, storytelling, and presentation skills
Expertise targeting the right audiences with effective messaging
Skill securing stakeholder buy-in for marketing initiatives
Hands-on execution amid competing priorities
Data-driven decision making and business case development
Cross-functional product launch and adoption monitoring experience
Demonstrated team-building with high execution standards
A sincere interest in the power of local community
Adaptability in complex, fast-paced environments
Relentless drive to win with a positive attitude
Eagerness to explore and apply AI and emerging technologies to reimagine how work gets done
Rewards Compensation, benefits, perks, and recognition programs at Nextdoor come together to create our total rewards package. Compensation will vary depending on your relevant skills, experience, and qualifications. Compensation may also vary by geography.
The starting salary for this role is expected to range from $240,00 to $310,000 on an annualized basis, or potentially greater in the event that your 'level' of proficiency exceeds the level expected for the role.
We expect to award a meaningful equity grant for this role. With front loaded quarterly vesting, your first vest date will take place within 3 months of your start date.
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 serve. We encourage everyone interested in our mission 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.
For information about our collection and use of applicants' personal information, please see Nextdoor's Personnel Privacy Notice, found here.
- Location:
- Chicago