WHAT WE DO MATTERS:
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.
ABOUT THE ROLE AND OUR TEAM:
The Senior Director, Product Management leads the transformation of The Bump’s platform to support our ambition to be the go-to, global offering that empowers every new parent to confidently navigate decisions throughout the parenting journey, on a path to a $50M+ business. This person will establish the product strategy and roadmap to enable us to realize our ambition while leading a talented team to drive success.
RESPONSIBILITIES:- Define and own management of the product strategy and roadmap for The Bump by engaging with senior leaders, assessing user insights, analyzing market trends, and aligning to overall business objectives.
- Establish The Bump as a pregnancy and parenting leader by empowering us to adopt among the emergence of AI, LLMs, and community commerce.
- Ladder our roadmap to our long term strategy and own a portfolio of Product OKRs by orchestrating efforts across our Build team.
- Motivate a team and bring out the best in everyone. You provide your team guidance and feedback so that they are always working on the most important problems and approaching those problems in the best ways.
- Create and manage a system of iteration and learning to generate incremental success on key product features while building toward the future.
- Define and prove product/market fit for new initiatives.
- Create hypotheses for strategic growth areas and lead a fast paced learning agenda. Assess impact of key product features with data available.
- Regularly seek out, analyze, and synthesize qualitative and quantitative data.
- Inspire action through strong thought partnership and collaboration with key stakeholders.
- Effectively communicate to your team, senior leadership, and the broader organization
SUCCESSFUL DIRECTOR OF PRODUCT CANDIDATES HAVE:
- 10+ years in product development in an agile environment.
- Track record of addressing consumer needs with a blend of commerce and/or community driving app first experiences.
- Start-up or growth stage experience is a plus.
- Well versed in personalization, app first design, commerce and community.
- Exceptional product sense and a user first mind-set.
- Structures strategic conversations, synthesizes user research and insights, can drive product/market fit, and logically breaks down a problem into hypotheses.
- You can create journey based experiences that delight users in partnership with UX team members; product marketing experience and/or mindset is a plus.
- You can set strategic direction at the 3-year, 1-year, and quarterly timeframes
- You can provide the leadership, guidance, and feedback that helps your team ideate and launch new products and improve existing ones.
- 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 communicate clearly and collaborate effectively with your partners and executives.
- You care about Outcomes over Outputs - goals matter more than the roadmap - and you think about roadmaps in terms of hypotheses not features.
- You have keen aesthetics and empathy, and a user-centered mentality.
- You’re a strong partner to your cross functional teammates across engineering, design, data, business, and marketing.
- You’re a natural prioritizer, have great instincts when it comes to what matters, and have made tough but smart trade-offs.
- Work consistently with abstract ideas or situations across functional areas of the business. Through assessment of intangible variables, identify and evaluate fundamental issues, providing strategy and direction for multiple functional areas. Anticipate factors that could influence strategies and company position in the market.
- Establish and develop broader product strategy and translate into multi functional objectives. Erroneous decisions will affect the business’s success, five years or longer.
- Interact with internal and external executive level management, requiring negotiation of extremely critical matters. Influence policymaking and strategy based on communication strategies and persuasion skills. Partner with executive leadership team to provide cohesive direction towards company goals.
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. Together, we have an incredible opportunity to make it even easier for our customers to plan life’s most meaningful moments and for our small business owners to grow and scale. We would love to have you with us on our journey.
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 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.
- 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; New York, NY; and Washington, D.C.
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