Lead Product Designer
WHAT WE DO MATTERS:
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.
We are seeking a Lead Product Designer to join the Planning & Content team at The Knot. In this role, you’ll play a key part in shaping exceptional planning experiences for engaged couples, helping make the most meaningful day of their lives truly unforgettable. From understanding our couples’ unique needs to crafting tailored, intuitive experiences, our team designs products that guide and empower couples through every step of their wedding planning journey.
As product designers at The Knot, we collaborate closely with product managers, engineers, writers, researchers, and other partners to deeply understand our users, uncover opportunities, and shape the strategic vision for our experiences. Within the design organization, we work across teams to evolve and refine our design system, ensuring cohesive, intuitive, and delightful experiences across our broad ecosystem of products.
RESPONSIBILITIES:
Be a great product designer
- Model exceptional product design quality, combining craft, strategy, and systems thinking.
- Deeply understand our users — their goals, pain points, and motivations — and champion their needs throughout the wedding planning journey.
- Create user-centered solutions that simplify complexity and drive measurable impact.
- Demonstrate expertise and deep experience in native app design
- Design visually elegant cross-platform experiences, ensuring cohesive, brand-aligned UI that balances usability and visual delight.
- Partner closely with product, engineering, research, data and stakeholders to shape squad and zone strategy, prioritize high-value opportunities, and solve user problems.
- Communicate design decisions clearly and persuasively to stakeholders and executives, influencing product direction through insight and expertise.
Be a great design leader
- Elevate design quality across the organization by mentoring designers, fostering constructive critique, and modeling high standards of craft and thinking.
- Contribute to and help evolve our design system to create consistency and efficiency across products.
- Provide thought leadership to all levels of the organization through both written and verbal communication
- Champion a culture of feedback, collaboration, and continuous learning within the team.
- Bring a spirit of curiosity — staying current with emerging trends, tools, and technologies, and translating them into actionable insights for the team.
Be a great cross-functional partner
- Be a strategic thought partner — framing problems, influencing roadmaps, and driving alignment with partners and stakeholders across the squad and zone.
- Lead design initiatives end-to-end, from exploration and concepting to execution and delivery.
- Collaborate with cross-functional peers to ensure solutions are feasible, scalable, meet business goals, and are implemented with a high level of quality.
- Advocate for user experience excellence and product coherence across the ecosystem, and across platforms.
- Anticipate challenges, identify opportunities, and help define the “why” behind product decisions.
SUCCESSFUL LEAD PRODUCT DESIGNER CANDIDATES HAVE:
- A standout portfolio demonstrating exceptional craft and strategic thinking in creating elegant, user-centered digital products and solutions that make complex experiences simple and intuitive across iOS and web.
- Extensive professional experience leading product design efforts, spanning from discovery, strategy, and prototyping through to polished execution.
- Strong storytelling and communication skills, with the ability to influence decisions at all levels of the organization.
- Deep understanding of UX principles, visual design, and interaction patterns, with a sharp attention to detail.
- An appreciation for how language can simplify, clarify, and bring life to an experience.
- Mastery of Figma and working within design systems, and proficiency with user research and collaboration tools.
- A solid understanding of front-end technologies and how to partner effectively with engineers.
- Experience building prototypes and performing user testing; comfortable translating both qualitative and quantitative insights into actionable design strategies.
- A passion to create products that are not only functional and beautiful, but that make a meaningful impact on users’ lives.
- 5-7+ years of relevant experience
WORK MODEL:
This role is Together@TKWW-eligible and based in New York City office. Starting September 15, 2025, you’ll be expected to work in the office two days a week as part of our hybrid work model.
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.
WHAT WE LOVE ABOUT YOU:
- Commit to our customers: 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.
- Raise the bar: 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.
- Be all in: 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.
- Celebrate impact: 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. You love to win, together.
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, 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.
- For Together@TKWW-eligible roles, this includes regular in-office time to foster collaboration and connection.
- For roles not eligible for in-office expectations, we support connection through virtual collaboration and intentional gatherings.
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.
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