ABOUT THE ROLE AND OUR TEAM:

The Knot Worldwide is seeking a Product Design leader to help drive the exciting evolution of our two-sided wedding marketplace that helps engaged couples build their dream wedding team and wedding pros build successful businesses.  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 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!

 

RESPONSIBILITIES: 

Strategy Partner with product, design, and sales leadership on a product vision and strategy that aligns and inspires our whole design/product/engineering 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, engineering, and data 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 upgrading 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 [JOB TITLE] CANDIDATES HAVE:

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, and web to app experiences. 2+ years of product design experience working on two-sided marketplaces 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 Sales to understand and support our core 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