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Marketing Director

Job in Chicago, Cook County, Illinois, 60602, USA
Listing for: Nextdoor
Full Time position
Listed on 2026-01-09
Job specializations:
  • Marketing / Advertising / PR
    Digital Marketing, Marketing Strategy, Marketing Manager, Branding Specialist / Ambassador
Job Description & How to Apply Below
#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 nload the app and join the neighborhood at

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  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…
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