Director, Product Design - eCommerce at The Knot Worldwide in Chevy Chase, Maryland

Job Description:

About the role and our team:

The Knot Worldwide is seeking a Director of Product Design to accelerate our growth as an e-commerce player in the wedding industry, offering engaged couples unmatched purchasing experiences in service of the most meaningful day of their lives. Our Registry product helps engaged couples start their new life together and share meaningful gift ideas with family and friends. Our Paper offering covers everything a couple needs for their day - from save the dates to invitations and table cards, all within a matching suite to their wedding website.

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 visible, important, leadership role with a market leader that has its highest growth and impact ahead of it, we'd love to hear from you!

Key responsibilities:

• Strategy
  
  
  • Partner with product, engineering, and business leadership on a product vision and strategy that aligns and inspires our whole build 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, and engineering work together with your fellow leaders across several functions
  • Support and evolve a design culture within the product organization and across the established design organization
  
  
• Hiring and team development
  
  
  • Continue growing and upleveling 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
  
  

• 10+ years of digital product design and leadership including end-to-end execution, with proven track record from B2B to B2C, shallow to deep, one time to repeated usage, innovation to iteration, and web to app experiences.
• 5+ years of product design experience working on e-commerce products
• 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 business stakeholders to understand and support our transactional 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