Senior Director, Product Design

The Knot Worldwide•New York, NY

45d•Hybrid

About The Position

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. 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! This role is located in New York City with two days in office.

Requirements

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
Demonstrated experience across web and app experiences.
2+ years of product design experience working on top of funnel and growth experiences
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

Responsibilities

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
Build and evangelize design thinking into how we work across product development, 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
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
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

Benefits

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.

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