Senior Director, Product Design

| New York City, NY
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WHAT WE DO MATTERS:

Here at The Knot Worldwide, we believe in doing work that matters. In 16 countries around the world, our leading family of brands (The Knot, WeddingWire, Bodas, Hitched, The Bash, The Bump, and more) inspire, inform, and celebrate our communities as they move through life’s milestones. Our couples and business partners depend on us. They're all in. So are we.

ABOUT THE ROLE AND OUR TEAM:  

The Knot Worldwide is seeking a Sr. Director of Product Design to drive the exciting evolution of our e-commerce Registry product that helps engaged couples start their new life together and share meaningful gift ideas with family and friends.  We seek a design leader who can solve challenging and complex user problems, create delightful and beautiful world-class products, hire and develop a strong team of product designers, and drive our organization’s design thinking and execution. The Knot Worldwide uses modern practices operating in agile, self-directed, performance-oriented squads who are driving outcomes through OKRs.

Product Design at The Knot Worldwide endeavors to solve important problems, develop excellent people, and operate as great partners with the rest of the company. If you’re attracted to this culture and a visible, important, leadership role with a market leader that has its highest growth and impact ahead of it, we’d love to hear from you!

RESPONSIBILITIES:

  • Strategy
    • Partner with product, engineering, and business leadership on a product vision and strategy that aligns and inspires our whole build organization and catapults our company toward achieving aggressive business goals
    • Build and evangelize design thinking into how we work across design, product, and engineering, and represent design and user experience across the company’s leadership
    • Collaborate with front end engineering on a global pattern library approach that balances speed and creativity
  • Execution
    • Lead your team of full-stack product designers as they work within their squads to solve our users’ most important problems
    • Improve how design, product, and engineering work together with your fellow leaders across the three functions
    • Support and evolve a design culture within the product organization and across the established design organization
  • Hiring and team development
    • Continue growing and upleveling your design team
    • Improve our design hiring brand, e.g. through community representation or thought leadership  
    • Develop your design team into masters of their craft and thought leaders in the product community

SUCCESSFUL SENIOR DIRECTOR, PRODUCT DESIGN CANDIDATES HAVE:

  • 12-15+ years of digital product design and leadership including end-to-end execution, with proven track record from B2B to B2C, shallow to deep, one time to repeated usage, innovation to iteration, and web to app experiences.
  • 5+ years of product design experience working on e-commerce products
  • Demonstrated track record of creating and leading others to create beautiful industry-leading design solutions to solve important user and business problems
  • Strong business sense and desire to partner deeply with business stakeholders to understand and support our transactional revenue stream
  • Facility with modern product development processes: agile, lean, iterative, outcome oriented, data driven (A/B testing), user research informed
  • Development orientation - you are eager to grow yourself and your team members
  • Strong presentation and written communication skills
  • Track record collaborating with product management, engineering, and marketing leaders

At The Knot Worldwide, we believe you are more than a resume and invite you to go for it, take the leap of faith, and apply for this job if it sparks your passion to join TKWW and make a difference!   

WHAT WE LOVE ABOUT YOU:

  • You Dream Big. You iterate and experiment to drive innovation.
  • You Love Our Users. You keep our global community at the center of everything you do.
  • You Do the Right Thing. You strengthen your team through respect, fairness, and inclusion.
  • You Hustle Every Day. You favor urgency and own your outcomes. 
  • You Win Together. People are at the heart of our success and you play as a team.

WHAT YOU LOVE ABOUT US:

The Knot Worldwide offers a unique employee experience and we are deeply proud of our award-winning culture. We offer a full benefits package including options for medical, dental and vision insurance and a 401k with company match. From flexible vacation and generous parental leave benefits to promoting wellness and giving back to our community, we believe in happiness above all else—in and out of the office.

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The Knot Worldwide provides equal employment opportunities (EEO) to all employees and applicants for employment without regard to race, color, religion, sex, national origin, age, or disability. In addition to federal law requirements, The Knot Worldwide complies with applicable state and local laws governing nondiscrimination in employment in every location in which the company has facilities. The Knot Worldwide expressly prohibits any form of workplace harassment based on race, color, religion, gender, sexual orientation, gender identity or expression, national origin, age, genetic information, disability, or veteran status.

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More Information on The Knot Worldwide
The Knot Worldwide operates in the Other industry. The company is located in Chevy Chase, MD, Norwalk, CT, New York, NY, Omaha, NE and Austin, TX. The Knot Worldwide was founded in 2018. It has 989 total employees. It offers perks and benefits such as Dental insurance, Health insurance, 401(K), Paid holidays, Paid sick days and Company-sponsored outings. To see all jobs at The Knot Worldwide, click here.
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