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# Chief Information & Security Officer at Nextdoor

- **Company:** Nextdoor
- **Location:** Dallas, TX
- **Posted:** 2026-11-05
- **Last confirmed live:** 2026-11-06
- **Apply:** https://about.nextdoor.com/careers-list/?gh_jid=8356430

## Job description

#TeamNextdoor

Nextdoor is the essential neighborhood network. Neighbors, public agencies, and businesses use Nextdoor to connect around local information that matters in more than 350,000 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](http://nextdoor.com/).

## Overview

As Nextdoor’s Chief Information and Security Officer, you will own enterprise and product security, and oversee corporate IT and internal business systems, both led by experienced leaders already in place. You will protect the company, its data, and the Nextdoor platform, working closely with Engineering. Candidates must have deep experience in enterprise and product security and AI; experience in IT and business systems is preferred. This role reports to Nextdoor’s Chief Financial Officer and would be based in Dallas, TX.

Your responsibilities will include:

Enterprise and Product Security

- Own Nextdoor’s security program end to end, including strategy, policies, risk assessments, and employee training, with a roadmap tied to the company’s biggest risks and progress reported through clear metrics
- Regularly report on security risks to the executive team and the Audit & Risk committee of the Board, and work with Legal on timely assessment and disclosure of material incidents as a public company
- Set security standards for the Nextdoor platform (mobile apps, web, APIs, and cloud infrastructure) and partner with Engineering, which is accountable for fixing issues, to build security into how software is designed, built, and released
- Run application security, including code review, dependency scanning, penetration testing, vulnerability management, and a responsible disclosure or bug bounty program, and lead security reviews of new products, features, and third-party code
- Protect member and customer data through encryption, access controls, and monitoring, and work with Legal on privacy requirements in the countries where we operate
- Run threat detection and monitoring across devices, cloud, the platform, and business systems, with outside providers where needed, and keep a tested incident response plan (including for a product data breach) with regular exercises with Engineering and Legal
- Secure corporate and business systems (devices, logins, email, Slack, and the systems that hold customer and financial data), and assess and manage security vendors and third-party providers
- Lead security audit and compliance work, including SOX, IT general controls, SOC 2, and ISO 27001, in partnership with Internal Audit

Business Systems

- Oversee the teams that run Workday (ERP and HCM) and Salesforce (Sales & Service Cloud)
- Partner with the business systems leaders on the integration and automation of business systems across Finance, People, Customer Operations and Revenue Operations

Corporate IT

- Oversee corporate IT operations, including identity and access (Okta), device management (Jamf), Google Workspace, Slack, IT asset management, and helpdesk
- Set the security approach for employee AI tools: which tools are approved and how company data is protected
- Oversee AI tool spend and adoption

General

- Set the strategy, roadmap and OKRs for security, IT and business systems, and align them with company priorities and stakeholders
- Lead, mentor, and develop a high-performing technology team
- Manage the IT budget and software spend, including forecasting, vendor management, and contract negotiation
- Stay on top of emerging threats and technology trends and assess their potential impact on the business

What You’ll Bring To The Team:

- 10+ years of experience in security, including several years leading security teams
- Experience building and leading a security team, including application security engineers and outside providers
- Deep, hands-on experience running a security program for both a corporate environment and a consumer-scale product, including application security, cloud infrastructure security, and secure software development
- Track record of working with engineering teams to fix vulnerabilities and change how software gets built, without slowing delivery
- Experience leading the response to a real security incident, including working with outside responders, Legal, and Communications
- Experience securing a public company or other SOX-regulated environment, with familiarity with SOC 2 or ISO 27001 audits and vendor security reviews
- Working knowledge of endpoint detection and response, security monitoring, and identity and access management tools (we use Okta)
- Familiarity with rolling out AI tools across a company and measuring adoption and spend
- Experience driving cross-team change while aligning diverse stakeholders
- Strong leadership and interpersonal skills, with an emphasis on mentoring and coaching team members

## Nice to have

- Security certification such as CISSP or CISM
- Experience connecting business systems with integration platforms such as Workato, MuleSoft, or Zapier, and building or governing automated AI workflows with human oversight
- Strong technical and functional background in ERP and CRM systems, and hands-on experience with the tools we run today: Jamf, Okta, Google Workspace, Slack, Salesforce, Workday, Glean, and Workato
- Experience leading or partnering with business systems teams

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.

The starting salary for this role is expected to range from $260,000 to $340,000 on an annualized basis, or potentially greater in the event that your 'level' of proficiency exceeds the level expected for the role. The salary range will be determined by the candidate’s geographic location.

We expect to award a meaningful equity grant for this role. With 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](https://help.nextdoor.com/s/article/Personnel-Privacy-Policy?language=en_US).

## About Nextdoor

## Company Overview
- **One-liner**: Nextdoor is the essential neighborhood network that connects neighbors, local businesses, and public agencies to build stronger local communities.
- **Entity Type**: Public (NYSE: KIND)
- **Headquarters**: San Francisco, United States
- **Founded**: 2011
- **Founders**: Nirav Tolia (CEO, President, Chairperson) — co-founders also include others such as Prakash Janakiraman and David Sze

## Core Business
- Primary industry/industries: Social networking, local community platform
- Target customers: B2C (neighbors/residents), B2B (local businesses), B2G (public agencies, fire departments, news publishers)
- Mission or purpose statement: "To make every neighborhood feel like home."

## Products & Services
- **Nextdoor Platform (The New Nextdoor)**: Mobile app and website that offers:
  - **News**: Trusted local stories from vetted publishers (3,500+ partners in US, UK, Canada)
  - **Alerts**: Real-time safety, traffic, and weather alerts powered by Weather.com, Samdesk, and local public agencies
  - **Ask**: AI-powered recommendations distilled from years of neighborhood conversations
  - **For Sale & Free**: Hyperlocal marketplace for buying, selling, or giving away items
  - **Events and Groups**: Organize and discover local gatherings and interest-based groups
  - **Business Pages**: 5M+ claimed business pages where locals can engage with enterprises
  - **Public Agency Pages**: 6,000+ public agencies use the platform to share critical updates

## Market Standing
- **Valuation/Market Cap**: Not publicly available from search results (publicly traded, but specific market cap not cited)
- **Key Metric**: Annual Revenue of $257.6M (as of latest available data)
- **Notable Investors/Partners**: Partners include Weather.com, Samdesk, and thousands of local news publishers and public agencies. (Specific venture investors not listed in search results)
- **Growth Signals**:
  - 110M+ verified neighbors across 345,000 neighborhoods globally
  - 1 in 3 U.S. households rely on Nextdoor
  - Present in 11 countries
  - Launched "The New Nextdoor" in July 2025, introducing AI-powered Ask feature
  - Employee headcount: 555 (+0.9% YoY, +9 employees)
  - Active job postings: 18 (but decreasing trend -35.7% monthly)

## Competitive Advantages
- Hyperlocal, verified network: users must submit real names and addresses, building inherent trust
- Large existing user base and network effects across neighborhoods
- Deep integration with local public agencies, fire departments, and news publishers
- AI-powered "Ask" feature leverages years of community data to provide unique local insights
- Diverse revenue streams: advertising, business pages, and marketplace

## Strategic Focus
- Monetization through advertising (multiple machine learning roles in Ads, Product Manager for Ads Optimization)
- Expanding AI capabilities in feed and notifications (Senior ML Engineer - Notifications/Feed)
- Growing marketplace and local commerce (For Sale & Free)
- Strengthening partnerships with public agencies and local news
- Increasing engagement through events, groups, and the new feature suite

## Why Work Here
- Culture & Values: "Act Like An Owner", "Build For Community", "Raise The Bar"
- Extensive benefits: health care (including LGBTQ+ affirming care), flexible vacation, 401k match, ESPP, 16 weeks paid parental leave, mental health & wellness stipend, caregiving support
- Perks: Meals and snacks in office, volunteer programs, career development resources
- Employee Resource Groups: 10 active ERGs including MIND (mental health), Rainbowhood (LGBTQ+), B@ND (Black employees), WIN (women & gender minorities), Halal, and more
- Work environment: Hybrid/remote flexibility implied (Slack usage, office perks), small-ish team (~555 employees) with engineering roles open (iOS, backend, ML, data science)
- Opportunity to work on a product that impacts 110M neighbors and fosters real-world community connections

## Sources
1. [about.nextdoor.com/careers](https://about.nextdoor.com/careers/)
2. [about.nextdoor.com](https://about.nextdoor.com/)
3. [linkedin.com/company/nextdoor-com](https://www.linkedin.com/company/nextdoor-com)
4. [about.nextdoor.com/team](https://about.nextdoor.com/team/)
5. [wikipedia.org/wiki/Nextdoor](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nextdoor)

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