WHAT WE DO MATTERS:
Here at The Knot Worldwide, we believe in doing work that matters. In 16 countries around the world, our leading family of brands (The Knot, WeddingWire, Bodas, Hitched, The Bash, The Bump, and more) inspire, inform, and celebrate our communities as they move through life’s milestones. Our couples and business partners depend on us. They’re all in. So are we.
ABOUT THE ROLE AND OUR TEAM:
We are seeking an experienced and impassioned Lead Product Manager 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 ensure that The Knot stays #1 in Weddings by bringing your entrepreneurial spirit, creative problem solving, and user-centric design thinking to our team. You’ll work closely with exceptional design and tech leads. Your Marketing and PR partners are knowledgeable and collaborative, having built up key relationships in the industry over many years.
We have built a world-class product development team and are passionate about growing product managers into masters of the craft. We have a rich product development program including monthly Product Schools, development budgets, guest speakers, meetups … as well as a strong general focus on personal development.
This role is a great mix of forward-thinking strategy and highly creative, user-centered feature development, with a strategic product focus on our wedding stationery offerings. We help couples find beautiful wedding invitations, save-the-dates, and other paper products that allow them to keep their guests informed about the wedding in style.
You should be excited about hypothesis-driven product development, experimenting, and rapidly iterating and scaling winning experiments. You love helping users solve big problems and making life’s biggest moments joyful instead of stressful.
This role is based in New York, collaborating with teams in Portland, OR, Washington, DC, and Barcelona, ES.
RESPONSIBILITIES:
-Always put our users first
-Work closely with our outstanding analytic and research team to gain feedback and insights directly from users
-Set the strategic direction in collaboration with product marketing, engineering, and design partners
-Drive outcome-focus execution – what matters most is how the product impacts our customers and our business
-Collaborate with product leaders to ensure cohesion between your products and the overall product experience on The Knot
SUCCESSFUL LEAD PRODUCT MANAGER CANDIDATES HAVE:
-5+ 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 have a track record of launching or relaunching eCommerce or subscription commerce businesses
-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
-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:
The Knot Worldwide offers a unique employee experience and we are deeply proud of our award-winning culture. We offer a full benefits package including options for medical, dental and vision insurance and a 401k with company match. From flexible vacation and generous parental leave benefits to promoting wellness and giving back to our community, we believe in happiness above all else—in and out of the office.
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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.