Lead Product Designer, The Bump

Job description

**ABOUT US** In more than ten countries around the world, The Knot Worldwide champions the power of celebration. Our global family of brands provide best-in-class products, services and content to take celebration planning from inspiration to action. At the core of our business is our industry-leading global online wedding Vendor Marketplace, connecting couples with local wedding professionals and a comprehensive suite of personalized wedding websites, planning tools, invitations, and registry services that make wedding planning easier for couples around the globe. Each year, we connect more than 4.5 million users with around 900,000 global small businesses through our Vendor Marketplace. **LIFE AT TKWW** At The Knot Worldwide, we believe in doing work that matters. Each year, we help millions of couples around the world celebrate life’s most meaningful moments, while also helping hundreds of thousands of global small business owners get discovered and scale. Life here means working alongside a team that cares deeply, not just about the work you do, but about the life you live. We prioritize employee well-being and development through meaningful opportunities for growth, and we celebrate milestones and wins in a big way. After all, celebrations are what we do best. **ABOUT THE ROLE AND OUR TEAM:** We are looking for an experienced Lead Product Designer to join our Design team in Barcelona to lead day-to-day product design for The Bump, while supporting strategic media initiatives across The Knot Worldwide (TKWW) brand portfolio. This role is structured so you spend most of your time on The Bump, shaping core consumer product features, content tools, and user journeys across web, iOS, and Android. The remaining time will focus on Global Media Sales (GMS), creating sponsored features and scalable monetization solutions that serve all TKWW brands. You will partner closely with Product, Engineering, Marketing, Editorial, and GMS stakeholders to understand customer needs, define opportunities, and shape product strategy. Sitting at the intersection of trusted content, digital product tools, and media monetization, this role requires a designer who can balance user value with business outcomes and move fluidly between strategy, systems thinking, and execution. The Knot Worldwide Design team is a close group of Product Designers, Product Writers, and Researchers who value strong craft, open critique, thoughtful collaboration, and shared ownership of the overall customer experience. **RESPONSIBILITIES:** - Lead end-to-end product design for The Bump across web, iOS, and Android, owning day-to-day feature execution while setting the UX/visual quality bar and shaping core product strategy. - Partner with the Global Media Sales (GMS) team to design sponsored content integrations and monetization touchpoints across the full family of TKWW brands. - Partner directly alongside our Engineering and Product Management teams to shape direction, align execution priorities, and accelerate delivery timelines. - Connect content, product functionality, and pathways that help users discover relevant tools on The Bump, while ensuring ad-tech integrations across TKWW brands maintain customer trust and high usability standards. - Drive design from problem framing through rapid prototyping, iteration, UX/UI design, and delivery-ready specs, helping teams validate solutions quickly and move into development with clarity. - Create scalable, high-quality design solutions and reusable component patterns, contributing to the broader evolution of TKWW's design systems across all brand properties. - Bring structure to complex product spaces, using research, user analytics, and post-launch results to identify growth opportunities and resolve UX debt. - Leverage AI and modern tools to prototype, compress exploration loops, and elevate the speed and output quality of product development. **SUCCESSFUL CANDIDATES HAVE:** - 6+ years of product design experience, with a proven track record of leading complex, high-impact consumer product areas across strategy, UX, visual design, and execution. - Exceptional visual and interaction design craft, with a portfolio showing polished execution, clear UX architecture, and scalable system patterns. - Versatility to switch fluidly between core app/web product design (The Bump) and cross-brand ad-tech/monetization solutions (GMS across TKWW). - Advanced systems thinking, with the ability to connect experiences across multi-brand platforms, dynamic journeys, and commercial touchpoints. - Strong product judgment, with experience using research, usability testing, and behavioral analytics to inform design choices. - Strong cross-functional collaboration skills, with experience partnering closely with dev teams and Product, Engineering, Marketing, and Design leadership. - A bias toward rapid prototyping and leveraging AI to make abstract ideas tangible, explore solutions quickly, and unblock engineering partners. - Comfort navigating ambiguity, bringing structure to undefined problem spaces, and driving domain-level alignment independently. - Experience with consumer mobile apps, content-rich platforms, ad-tech, commerce, or multi-brand ecosystems is a strong plus. **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. #LI-Hybrid #professional **AI FLUENCY** At TKWW, AI is a tool that helps our teams work smarter, move faster, and spend more time on the work that matters most. We expect every employee, in every role, to build fluency with the AI tools relevant to their work, use them thoughtfully and with sound judgment, and bring curiosity as these tools keep evolving. This isn't about replacing our people's expertise — it's about equipping every employee to use AI to raise the bar on the work we do together. **WHAT WE LOVE ABOUT YOU:** - **Commit to our customers**: You act as one team on behalf of our customers. You lead with head and heart, and build what matters for life's most meaningful moments. - **Raise the bar:** You define "great" and work backwards. You don't just accept how it's been done, but boldly define how it should be. You are unafraid to innovate, learn, and keep moving forward toward our shared vision. - **Be all in:** You believe in our mission and take ownership of your work. You debate openly to reach the best outcomes, speaking with clarity and care, embracing diverse perspectives, then commit fully. - **Celebrate impact:** You measure success by the outcomes you create. You hold yourself accountable to delivering value, while recognizing progress and the lessons learned along the way. You love to win, together. **WHAT YOU LOVE ABOUT US:** We provide meaningful, high-impact benefits designed to support the holistic well-being of our diverse workforce and help our people thrive both professionally and personally. From physical and mental wellness to flexible time off our programs are built around the moments that matter most. **TOGETHER@TKWW: OUR APPROCH TO HYBRID WORK** Together@TKWW is 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. - **For Together@TKWW-eligible roles,** this includes regular in-office time to foster collaboration and connection. - **For roles not eligible for in-office expectations**, we support connection through virtual collaboration and intentional gatherings. To facilitate in-person collaboration, we have office spaces in Barcelona, Spain; Delhi, India; Galway, Ireland; London, England and New York, NY. _________________________________________________________________________________________________________________ **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. 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