Lead Product Designer

About This Role

Join the Growth & Lifecycle team at The Knot Worldwide as a Lead Product Designer, shaping exceptional planning experiences for engaged couples. This role focuses on understanding user needs and crafting intuitive, visually elegant cross-platform experiences.

Responsibilities

• Model exceptional product design quality, combining craft, strategy, and systems thinking.
• Deeply understand users' goals, pain points, and motivations, and champion their needs.
• 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.
• Partner closely with product, engineering, research, data, and stakeholders to shape strategy and prioritize opportunities.
• Communicate design decisions clearly and persuasively to stakeholders and executives.
• Elevate design quality by mentoring designers, fostering constructive critique, and modeling high standards.
• Contribute to and help evolve the design system to create consistency and efficiency.
• Provide thought leadership through written and verbal communication.

Requirements

• Standout portfolio demonstrating exceptional craft and strategic thinking in creating elegant, user-centered digital products 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.
• Deep understanding of UX principles, visual design, and interaction patterns, with sharp attention to detail.
• Mastery of Figma and working within design systems.
• Proficiency with user research and collaboration tools.
• Solid understanding of front-end technologies and how to partner effectively with engineers.

Qualifications

• 5-7+ years of relevant experience leading product design efforts.

Nice to Have

• Experience building prototypes and performing user testing.

Skills

* Required skills

Benefits