Southern Europe

**#TeamNextdoor**:
Nextdoor is where you connect to the neighbourhoods that matter to you so you can belong. Our purpose is to cultivate a kinder world where everyone has a neighbourhood they can rely on.

Neighbours 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 — neighbours, businesses, and public services. Today, neighbours rely on Nextdoor in more than 275,000 neighbourhoods across 11 countries.

**The Impact You'll Make**:
As a Head of Community for Southern Europe you are the Community Leader for the region, especially, for our key cities: Paris, Milan and Madrid. For your region, you will help shape our holistic growth strategy and drive execution to grow our member base and increase both engagement and content creation on our platform in that particular area, as well as drive more awareness to Nextdoor as the most valuable platform for neighbourhoods. You will own city activation for the whole region, and support our overall business strategy with local needs and community activation.

This role calls for strategy and innovation, leadership skills, creative problem-solving, critical thinking, a desire for execution and outstanding relationship-building to partner with cross-functional teams and external partners.

Your key responsibilities include:

- Represent and be the face of Nextdoor in Southern Europe, representing the company in front of local associations, partners and the media
- Drive Growth and Engagement in the region
- Help to define Nextdoor's local growth strategy in Southern Europe, in line with our overall company's growth objectives, to strengthen our position in communities across your area (for both neighbours and organizations). You will be leveraging all the tools we have to grow a market, both tactical as well as strategic, working closely with cross-functional teams (PR/Comms, growth marketing, local partnerships, etc.)
- Identify how Nextdoor in Southern Europe can grow more effectively, reporting directly to the Head of Southern Europe, and three direct reports: City Manager Madrid, City Manager Milan, City Manager Paris
- Lead the implementation and execution of key initiatives (both online and offline) whilst monitoring and reporting on performance
- Build, maintain and deepen relationships with key ecosystem stakeholders, such as nonprofits, Neighbourhood leads, content creators, public agencies and local associations
- Support Product and International Operations with go to market initiatives
- Serve as a central point of contact for internal teams to liaise on local growth opportunities in your city/area

**What You'll Bring To The Team**:

- A highly entrepreneurial get-things-done individual with strong project management skills, who is able to quickly assess a situation, identify key risks and drive a project forward to meet key objectives
- At least 8 years of demonstrated experience in an agile environment, preferably working on social networks or tech platforms
- 360 degree marketing experience: ability to be the driver of a holistic marketing strategy including Brand, PR&Comms, Growth Marketing, Community, etc
- The ability to influence cross-functional teams to drive different countries, and different city-specific goals
- Experience building community strategies and plans from the ground up grounded in insights and data
- Strong interpersonal and communication skills, across all levels internally as well as externally with organisations, partners and the media, both written and oral. Ability to present with flair and relate to a wide spectrum of constituents, with experience and interest in organising offline events
- High emotional intelligence & situational awareness, able to seamlessly adapt depending on the audience
- Deep empathy for customer needs and insights as well as an intuitive grasp of the business problems we're trying to solve
- A deep connection to Nextdoor's mission, and passion for creating a kinder world
- Strong analytical, data, and troubleshooting skills
- Outcome-oriented. Articulates the desired outcome in a non-reactionary way, and works collaboratively to create a path to achieve

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.