WHAT WE DO MATTERS:
At The Knot Worldwide, we champion celebration - and that starts with celebrating our people. Our employees are passionate dreamers, thoughtful doers, and lifelong learners who power meaningful moments for millions around the world. We’re united by authentic connection, shared purpose, and a deep commitment to the global community we serve. Here, flexibility and belonging go hand in hand with high performance. We believe the best ideas come from empowered teams: those who consistently collaborate with intention to design solutions, spark ideas, and drive impact. We inspire, we build, and we celebrate. We dream big, love our users, hustle every day, and always do the right thing to win - together. Our people are at the heart of our success.
ABOUT THE ROLE AND OUR TEAM:
The Knot Worldwide is seeking a talented and driven Senior Engineering Manager to join and lead our NY The Knot CMP Search Team.
The Knot is the nation’s leading wedding marketplace, providing our couples with a completely personalized experience that guides them through the entire wedding planning journey. A large part of that journey is providing couples with relevant wedding content to help guide them through the many wedding planning stages and decisions. These range from booking a venue, pricing guidance, and last-minute tips for the day of. TKWW’s content ecosystem also provides a first impression to couples of our brand as they start to plan their wedding, and helps to introduce them to everything that we have to offer.
As the leader of our Search team, you’ll drive the strategy, execution, and delivery of our search infrastructure and user-facing search experiences. You’ll work at the intersection of content, performance, and personalization—ensuring that users can find what they need quickly, while our vendor and marketplace partners benefit from optimized visibility and fresh, accurate data.
RESPONSIBILITIES:
- Lead and mentor a team of engineers working on critical search systems and services—managing career growth, performance, and project execution.
- Own the roadmap for search capabilities across our web and mobile platforms, working in close partnership with Product, Data, Design, and Marketing teams.
- Collaborate across zones, including Marketplace and Vendor Experience teams, to ensure search pages are performant, discoverable, and aligned with user and stakeholder needs.
- Drive improvements in relevance, ranking, speed, and scalability of our search platform, including systems migrations and replatforming when necessary.
- Ensure quality and maintainability by guiding software development best practices, conducting code reviews, and fostering a culture of continuous improvement.
- Shape platform and company-wide architecture by contributing to technical direction and collaborating with other senior engineers and leaders.
- Coordinate globally with remote and international engineering teams to deliver reliable and cohesive solutions.
- 5+ years of experience managing engineering teams, preferably in product-focused, consumer web or mobile environments.
- Strong background in leading teams working on search, content discovery, or content management systems.
- Experience across modern web stacks such as React, Next.js, Node.js, GraphQL, and cloud infrastructure.
- Demonstrated ability to lead cross-functional projects involving performance optimization, SEO, and high-scale content systems.
- Proven ability to lead and coach senior engineers across multiple technical domains.
- Familiarity with relevance tuning, ranking algorithms, or search platform technologies (e.g., Elasticsearch, Solr, OpenSearch) is a plus.
- Excellent communication skills—you’re able to align engineering with product and business priorities, and clearly articulate trade-offs to stakeholders.
- Committed to agile development principles and fostering a culture of learning, feedback, and accountability.
WORK MODEL:
This role is Together@TKWW-eligible and based near one of our office hubs. You’ll be expected to work in the office two days a week as part of our hybrid work model.
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 YOU LOVE ABOUT US:
We believe in a wide range of holistic offerings to support our employees so that they can live our values day in and day out. From mental wellbeing, physical health and financial planning, to engaging perks and discounts, we are in the business of celebrating and supporting the Moments that Matter both in and out of the “office”. We offer flexible vacation, generous parental leave and prioritize initiatives that support the growth, development, and happiness of our people.
- For Together@TKWW-eligible roles, this includes regular in-office time to foster collaboration and connection.
- For roles not eligible for in-office expectations, we support connection through virtual collaboration and intentional gatherings.
To facilitate in-person collaboration, we have office spaces in Barcelona, Spain; Delhi, India; Galway, Ireland; London, England; New York, NY; and Washington, D.C.
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US Notice: 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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In 16 countries around the world, The Knot Worldwide’s leading global family of brands inspire, inform and celebrate our communities as they move through life’s biggest milestones. From the proposal to the wedding day, creating a home to starting a family together, we’re there for them every step of the way.
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