Senior Director, Product Design

Xo Group • New York, NY

49d • Hybrid

About The Position

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. ABOUT THE ROLE AND OUR TEAM: 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

What This Job Offers

• Job Type: Full-time
• Career Level: Director
• Education Level: No Education Listed