We are seeking an experienced and impassioned Director of Product Management to help us transform wedding planning into a delightful journey while helping couples get the hard work done with confidence. We’re looking for that special someone to bring your entrepreneurial spirit, creative problem solving, and user-centric design thinking to our team. You’ll work closely with exceptional design and tech leaders, and collaborate with executives to create and drive our strategy. Your Marketing and PR partners are knowledgeable and collaborative, having built up key relationships in the industry over many years.
This role is a great mix of forward-thinking strategy and highly creative, design-centered development, with a strategic product focus on The Knot’s wedding planning journey, from the customers’ first visit through the wedding event and until the last Thank You notes are sent out. This is a managerial role, where you will lead a talented team of product managers, drive strategy for recently engaged couples, and help couples bring their wedding vision to life. We’re looking for someone that has successfully recruited, hired and managed PMs for multiple years and has led strategy for consumer products.
You should be excited about building new products from Minimally Viable Experiments to iterating and scaling the existing planning products. You love helping users solve big problems and making life’s biggest moments joyful instead of stressful!
RESPONSIBILITIES:
Always put our users first
Recruit, hire and develop top talent
Collaborate effectively with executives to drive impact
Set the strategic direction in collaboration with product marketing, engineering, and design partners
Drive outcome-focused execution - what matters most is how the product impacts our customers and our business
Work closely with our outstanding analytic and research team to gain feedback and insights directly from users
Collaborate with product leaders to ensure cohesion between your products and the overall product experience on The Knot
SUCCESSFUL PRODUCT DIRECTORS HAVE:
10+ years in product development, in an agile environment
You can set strategic direction and help ideate and launch new products and experiences
You always refer to quantitative and qualitative data in making product decisions and have experience with analytics and research tools + methods and comfort with analytical tools
You have a track record of creating quality consumer experiences that solve real user needs and drive business growth
You communicate clearly and collaborate effectively with your partners and executives
You have keen aesthetics and empathy, and a user-centered mentality
You’re a strong partner for engineers, empathetic to their unique needs, and you believe there’s such a thing as tech debt
You’re a natural prioritizer, have great instincts when it comes to what matters, and have made tough but smart trade-offs. You care about Outcomes over Outputs - goals matter more than the roadmap
About Us
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 WE LOVE ABOUT YOU:
You Dream Big. You iterate and experiment to drive innovation.
You Love Our Users. You keep our global community at the center of everything you do.
You Do the Right Thing. You strengthen your team through respect, fairness, and inclusion.
You Hustle Every Day. You favor urgency and own your outcomes.
You Win Together. People are at the heart of our success and you play as a team.
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. We offer flexible vacation, generous parental leave and prioritize initiatives that support the growth, development, and happiness of our people.
To facilitate in-person collaboration, we have office spaces in Barcelona, Spain; Boston, MA; Delhi, India; Galway, Ireland; London, England; Madrid, Spain; New York, NY; Omaha, NE; Portland, OR; and Washington, D.C.
We are seeking applicants residing in the Central or Eastern US time zones to facilitate effective communication with the company’s headquarters in Chevy Chase, MD.
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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.
About The Team
WHAT WE DO MATTERS:
Here at The Knot Worldwide, we believe in doing work that matters. In more than 16 countries around the world, The Knot Worldwide’s leading family of brands—including The Knot, WeddingWire, Bodas, The Bash, The Bump, and more—help people take celebration planning from inspiration to action. When you join our global team, you’ll be a part of a diverse group of individuals passionate about serving and enabling our communities to celebrate the moments that make us.
Seniority level
Director
Employment type
Full-time
Job function
Product Management and Marketing
Industries
Technology, Information and Internet
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