Senior Director, Product Design

The Knot Worldwide; Madrid; Híbrido; EUR 80.000 - 100.000; Jornada completa

Descripción de la vacante

A global digital wedding planning platform is seeking a Product Design leader in Barcelona to drive the evolution of the planning experience. The role involves strategy development, user experience optimization, and team leadership. Ideal candidates have 10+ years in product design, including B2C experience, and are adept at navigating agile environments. The company fosters a culture of collaboration and continuous improvement, offering a hybrid work model that includes in-office collaboration two days a week.

Servicios

Flexible vacation

Generous parental leave

Mental wellbeing support

Engaging perks and discounts

Formación

• 10+ years of digital product design and leadership experience.
• 2+ years of product design experience focusing on top of funnel and growth.
• Strong communication and collaboration skills with product and engineering teams.

Responsabilidades

• Partner with leadership to define product vision and strategy.
• Lead a team of product designers to solve user problems.
• Develop a strong design culture within the organization.

Conocimientos

Digital product design

Team leadership

B2C experience

Agile methodologies

Creative problem-solving

Descripción del empleo

Overview

At The Knot Worldwide, we champion celebration - and that starts with celebrating our people. Our employees are passionate dreamers, thoughtful doers, and lifelong learners who power meaningful moments for millions around the world. We’re united by authentic connection, shared purpose, and a deep commitment to the global community we serve. Here, flexibility and belonging go hand in hand with high performance. Driven by our core values, we believe the best ideas come from empowered teams : those who consistently collaborate with intention to design solutions, spark ideas, and drive impact. Our people are at the heart of our success.

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.

About the role and our team

The Knot Worldwide is seeking a Product Design leader to help drive the evolution of our planning experience, ensuring that we meet couples as soon as they get engaged and create value for them at every step of their wedding planning journey. You will be responsible for our acquisition and lifecycle strategy, optimizing our top of funnel experiences to delight couples from the start and help them meaningfully progress through planning.

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

This role is located in BARCELONA with two days in office.

Responsibilities

Strategy

• Partner with Product, Engineering, Data, and Marketing leadership on a product vision and strategy that aligns and inspires our organization to catapult us toward achieving aggressive business goals
• Build and evangelize design thinking into how we work across product development, 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, engineering, and data work together with your fellow leaders across the three functions
• Support and evolve a design culture within the product organization and across the established design organization

Hiring and team development

• Continue growing and upgrading 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

Successful candidates have

10+ years of digital product design and leadership including end‑to‑end execution, with proven track record running B2C experiences, shallow to deep, one time to repeated usage, innovation to iteration

Demonstrated experience across web and app experiences

• 2+ years of product design experience working on top of funnel and growth experiences
• 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 Sales to understand and support our core 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

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!

Work model

This role is Together@TKWW-eligible and based near one of our office hubs. You’ll be expected to work in the office two days a week as part of our hybrid work model.

What you love about us

We believe in a wide range of holistic offerings to support our employees so that they can live our values day in and day out. From mental wellbeing, physical health and financial planning, to engaging perks and discounts, we are in the business of celebrating and supporting the Moments that Matter, both in and out of the office. We offer flexible vacation, generous parental leave, and prioritize initiatives that support the growth, development, and happiness of our people.

Together@TKWW is our approach to hybrid work

It’s designed to support how we work best : combining the flexibility we value with meaningful opportunities to connect in person. Whether a role is Together@TKWW-eligible or not, we believe in purposeful moments to come together, build strong relationships, and drive bold ideas forward.

To facilitate in‑person collaboration, we have office spaces in Barcelona, Spain; Delhi, India; Galway, Ireland; London, England; New York, NY; and Washington, D.C.

US Notice

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.

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