Senior Director, Product Design

<div class="content-intro"><p><strong>WHAT WE DO MATTERS:</strong></p> <p>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. Driven by our core values, we believe the best ideas come from empowered teams: those who consistently collaborate with intention to design solutions, spark ideas, and drive impact. Our people are at the heart of our success.</p></div><div class="p-rich_text_section"> <div class="p-rich_text_section"> <p><strong>WHAT WE DO MATTERS:</strong></p> <p>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.&nbsp;</p> <br> <p><strong>ABOUT THE ROLE AND OUR TEAM:</strong></p> <p>The Knot Worldwide is seeking a Product Design leader to help drive the evolution of our planning experience, ensuring that we meet couples as soon as they get engaged and create value for them at every step of their wedding planning journey. You will be responsible for our acquisition and lifecycle strategy, optimizing our top of funnel experiences to delight couples from the start and help them meaningfully progress through planning.&nbsp;</p> <p>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.</p> <p>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 highly visible, impactful leadership role with a market leader that has its highest growth and impact ahead of it, we’d love to hear from you!</p> <p>This role is located in BARCELONA with two days in office.&nbsp;</p> <p><strong>RESPONSIBILITIES:&nbsp;</strong></p> <ul> <li>Strategy</li> <ul> <li>Partner with Product, Engineering, Data, and Marketing leadership on a product vision and strategy that aligns and inspires our organization to catapult us toward achieving aggressive business goals</li> <li>Build and evangelize design thinking into how we work across product development, and represent design and user experience across the company’s leadership</li> <li>Collaborate with front end engineering on a global pattern library approach that balances speed and creativity</li> </ul> <li>Execution</li> <ul> <li>Lead your team of full-stack product designers as they work within their squads to solve our users’ most important problems</li> <li>Improve how design, product, engineering, and data work together with your fellow leaders across the three functions</li> <li>Support and evolve a design culture within the product organization and across the established design organization</li> </ul> <li>Hiring and team development</li> <ul> <li>Continue growing and upgrading your design team</li> <li>Improve our design hiring brand, e.g. through community representation or thought leadership&nbsp;&nbsp;</li> <li>Develop your design team into masters of their craft and thought leaders in the product community</li> </ul> </ul> <br> <p><strong>SUCCESSFUL CANDIDATES HAVE:</strong></p> <ul> <li>10+ years of digital product design and leadership including end-to-end execution, with proven track record running B2C experiences, shallow to deep, one time to repeated usage, innovation to iteration</li> <li>Demonstrated experience across web and app experiences.</li> <li>2+ years of product design experience working on top of funnel and growth experiences</li> <li>Demonstrated track record of creating and leading others to create beautiful industry-leading design solutions to solve important user and business problems</li> <li>Strong business sense and desire to partner deeply with Sales to understand and support our core revenue stream</li> <li>Facility with modern product development processes: agile, lean, iterative, outcome oriented, data driven (A/B testing), user research informed</li> <li>Development orientation - you are eager to grow yourself and your team members</li> <li>Strong presentation and written communication skills</li> <li>Track record collaborating with product management, engineering, and marketing leaders</li> </ul> <p>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!&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;</p> <br><strong>WORK MODEL:</strong> <p>This role is Together@TKWW-eligible and based near one of our office hubs. You’ll be expected to work in the office <strong>two days a week</strong> as part of our hybrid work model.</p> <p>&nbsp;</p> </div> </div><div class="content-conclusion"><p>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. Together, we have an incredible opportunity to make it even easier for our customers to plan life’s most meaningful moments and for our small business owners to grow and scale. We would love to have you with us on our journey.&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;</p> <p><strong>WHAT WE LOVE ABOUT YOU:</strong></p> <ul> <li><strong>Commit to our customers</strong>: You act as one team on behalf of our customers. You lead with head and heart, and build what matters for life's most meaningful moments.</li> <li><strong>Raise the bar:</strong> You define "great" and work backwards. You don't just accept how it's been done, but boldly define how it should be. You are unafraid to innovate, learn, and keep moving forward toward our shared vision.</li> <li><strong>Be all in:</strong> You believe in our mission and take ownership of your work. You debate openly to reach the best outcomes, speaking with clarity and care, embracing diverse perspectives, then commit fully.</li> <li><strong>Celebrate impact:</strong> You measure success by the outcomes you create. You hold yourself accountable to delivering value, while recognizing progress and the lessons learned along the way.&nbsp; You love to win, together.</li> </ul> <p><strong>WHAT YOU LOVE ABOUT US:</strong></p> <p>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.</p> <div class="p-rich_text_section"><strong data-stringify-type="bold">Together@TKWW is our approach to hybrid work.</strong>&nbsp;It’s designed to support how we work best: combining the flexibility we value with meaningful opportunities to connect in person. Whether a role is Together@TKWW-eligible or not, we believe in purposeful moments to come together, build strong relationships, and drive bold ideas forward.</div> <ul class="p-rich_text_list p-rich_text_list__bullet p-rich_text_list--nested" data-stringify-type="unordered-list" data-list-tree="true" data-indent="0" data-border="0"> <li data-stringify-indent="0" data-stringify-border="0"><strong data-stringify-type="bold">For Together@TKWW-eligible roles,</strong>&nbsp;this includes regular in-office time to foster collaboration and connection.</li> <li data-stringify-indent="0" data-stringify-border="0"><strong data-stringify-type="bold">For roles not eligible for in-office expectations</strong>, we support connection through virtual collaboration and intentional gatherings.</li> </ul> <p>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.</p> <p>__</p> <p><strong>US Notice:</strong> 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.<br><br><strong>Privacy Notice:</strong> &nbsp;The Knot Worldwide (TKWW) processes your personal data to evaluate your application, based on the legal ground of taking steps prior to entering into a potential employment contract. Only the data strictly necessary for this purpose is collected. In some cases, your data may also be processed based on TKWW’s legitimate interests (e.g., to improve recruitment practices or manage candidate pools), to which you can object at any time. 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