Senior Director, Product Management at The Knot Worldwide in Chevy Chase, Maryland

Job Description:

ABOUT THE ROLE AND OUR TEAM:

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

• 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