Lead Product Designer
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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
About The Knot Worldwide
The Knot Worldwide champions celebration and provides products and services for meaningful life moments, uniting employees with authentic connection and shared purpose.