Principal Product Designer

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.

We are looking for an experienced Principal Product Designer to join our Design team and lead design for the Global Couple & Storefront zone. This role will focus on marketplace experiences across WeddingWire US and international brands, serving both couples and vendors in a complex, multi-sided ecosystem.

You will partner closely with Product, Engineering, Marketing, Research, Design Systems, and other stakeholders to understand customer needs, define opportunities, and shape the direction of our experiences. This role requires an experienced designer who can bring structure to ambiguity, balance needs across a complex marketplace, and move fluidly between strategy, systems thinking, and high-quality design execution.

Our 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 customer experience.

RESPONSIBILITIES:

• Lead end-to-end design for the Global Couple & Storefront zone across WeddingWire US and international brands, creating scalable marketplace experiences that deliver value for couples and vendors and drive positive business outcomes.
• Design for marketplace complexity, balancing needs across the ecosystem—e.g. couple conversion vs. vendor lead quality, and personalization vs. breadth of choice—to create experiences that serve both couples and vendors.
• Create scalable, high-quality design solutions across brands, markets, and surfaces, accounting for localization, market differences, reusable patterns, and design system consistency.
• Partner closely with Product, Engineering, Marketing, Design Systems, and additional stakeholders to shape direction, align priorities, and influence decisions across product zones and departments.
• Support AI transformation efforts where relevant, including AI, automation, self-checkout, and other scalable experiences that affect couples, vendors, or internal workflows.
• Drive design execution from problem framing and product strategy through rapid prototyping, iteration, UX/UI design, and delivery-ready specs, helping teams validate solutions quickly and move into development with clarity.
• Bring structure and clarity to ambiguous product spaces, helping teams move from broad strategic direction to clear product and design decisions.

SUCCESSFUL CANDIDATES HAVE:

• 8+ years of product design experience, with a track record of leading complex, high-impact product areas across strategy, UX, visual design, and execution.
• Strong systems thinking—able to connect dots across user types, platforms, brands, and business models, and contribute to the evolution of a design system.
• Excellent visual and interaction design craft, with a portfolio showing polished execution, clear UX architecture, and scalable product patterns.
• Strong cross-functional collaboration skills, with experience partnering closely with Product, Engineering, Business, Research, Marketing, and Design leadership.
• Comfort operating in ambiguity, with the ability to bring structure to undefined problem spaces, influence senior stakeholders, and drive alignment without heavy direction.
• A bias toward rapid prototyping and leveraging AI to make ideas tangible, quickly explore solutions, validate direction, and help teams move into engineering with clarity.
• Experience with marketplaces, multi-sided platforms, or similarly complex ecosystems is a plus, especially in products with a strong consumer-facing component.

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.

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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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