Full-Time

Senior Product Manager

Posted on 8/28/2025

Zola

Zola

201-500 employees

Online wedding planning platform with vendors

Compensation Overview

$150k - $170k/yr

New York, NY, USA

Hybrid

Hybrid role requiring in-office presence on Tuesdays and Thursdays.

Category
Product (2)
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Required Skills
Mixpanel
Product Management
Looker
Data Analysis
Requirements
  • 5+ years of experience in product management at a fast-paced, consumer-focused technology company.
  • Experience in a two-sided marketplace or commerce environment is a plus.
  • Proven ability to set a strategic direction and a track record of launching successful products that have driven meaningful business results.
  • Expert at leveraging quantitative and qualitative data to inform product decisions, with familiarity using reporting tools like Looker and analytics tools like Mixpanel.
  • Superior written and verbal communication, with the ability to confidently present to and influence executive stakeholders.
  • Demonstrated ability to lead cross-functional teams and manage multiple competing tasks with a high degree of autonomy.
  • Technical fluency and the ability to participate in technical conversations about project scope and timing.
  • Creative, scrappy, and customer-obsessed.
  • Passionate about the wedding space.
  • BA/BS required. A degree in Computer Science, Engineering, or Business is preferred.
Responsibilities
  • Lead a cross-functional team of engineers and designers to build, launch, and iterate on products that drive business growth and user engagement for our vendor marketplace.
  • Partner with business managers to develop and own a clear, data-driven product roadmap and strategy for your area of the business, balancing customer needs with company priorities.
  • Act as the primary product evangelist and subject matter expert, communicating product vision, strategy, and results to stakeholders and senior leadership.
  • Deeply analyze product performance, leverage quantitative and qualitative data to inform decisions, and establish clear success metrics for all initiatives.
  • Anticipate challenges, identify opportunities, and proactively manage trade-offs to ensure projects stay on track and deliver on their intended outcomes.
  • Mentor and guide junior team members on product management best practices, contributing to the growth and development of the team.
  • Contribute to the overall Product team's vision, culture, and processes, helping to scale our organization as we grow.
Desired Qualifications
  • Experience in a two-sided marketplace or commerce environment is a plus.
  • Passionate about the wedding space.

Zola is a wedding planning platform that helps engaged couples manage every aspect of their wedding in one place. It offers customizable invitations, venue and vendor recommendations, and tools to create and manage a gift registry and guest lists. How it works: couples use Zola’s site to plan and organize, track RSVPs and meal choices, and coordinate gifts, with a unique option to exchange gifts before shipping for credits. Revenue comes from commissions with vendors and venues booked through the site and from selling wedding-related products like invitations. How it differs: unlike many services that focus on a single task, Zola combines invitations, registry, guest-list management, and vendor discovery into a single, integrated platform, and it includes a registry with prepaid credit for gifts. Its goal: make wedding planning simpler and more streamlined for couples by providing a comprehensive, easy-to-use set of tools in one place.

Company Size

201-500

Company Stage

Series D

Total Funding

$169.3M

Headquarters

New York City, New York

Founded

2013

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Simplify's Take

What believers are saying

  • Wedding registry grows fastest, partnering with KitchenAid and Le Creuset.
  • Baby registry expands reach to expecting parents beyond weddings.
  • No registry fees boost user adoption and retention.

What critics are saying

  • The Knot's 20 million users capture vendor commissions via SEO dominance.
  • Etsy erodes 15% registry traffic with lower-fee cash funds.
  • Google SGE AI planners slash 25% vendor referrals in 3-6 months.

What makes Zola unique

  • Zola lists vendors organically without paid rankings for authentic recommendations.
  • Split the Decisions AI launched April 2024 divides 500 wedding decisions equally.
  • Free registry enables group gifting for big-ticket items like furniture.

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Yahoo Finance
May 15th, 2025
I Just Inherited $100K And My Fiancée Says I’M Being ‘Stingy’ For Refusing To Spend It On A ‘Dream’ Wedding

When Jim’s grandmother passed away, he didn’t just inherit her favorite teacups or photo albums — he inherited $100,000, and with it, a dream she always had for him: building a future, buying a home and starting a family. Not long ago, Jim proposed to his girlfriend of three years. They’d been planning a small, intimate wedding with a budget of around $20,000 — part of which would come from their parents. They hadn’t saved much of their own money and didn’t want to go into debt for just one day. But since Jim received news of his inheritance, his fiancée has seemingly switched gears. Now she wants a glitzy destination wedding, a designer dress and a much longer guest list

Business Wire
Apr 3rd, 2024
Zola Expands Into Emerging Technology With Launch Of Split The Decisions Gpt

NEW YORK--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Today Zola, the most trusted authority in the wedding planning industry, announced the launch of Split the Decisions, an AI tool to help couples divide the decisions in wedding planning equally. Invisible labor affects many relationships, and wedding planning can bring those imbalances to light in a major way. Decision fatigue also plays a role when one partner is taking on more than the other, and it can cause friction. By Zola’s estimates, couples make more than 500 decisions over the course of planning a wedding, and the “mental load” often falls on one person. In fact, the number one thing that couples told Zola they want to change about wedding planning in its annual First Look Report is the assumption that one person is going to do everything. “What makes this exciting and powerful is not the technology, it’s the reason why we did it in the first place

PR Newswire
Jan 30th, 2024
Zola Announces 2024 "Best Of Zola" Award Winners

Leading wedding planning platform celebrates the country's top wedding professionals in 2nd annual awards programNEW YORK, Jan. 30, 2024 /PRNewswire/ -- Zola , the leading wedding planning platform for modern couples and most trusted authority in the wedding industry, has announced the recipients of its second annual Best of Zola awards. The award is a mark of excellence earned by wedding professionals that have proven themselves to be best-in-class across the planning experience for couples. These wedding pros are vouched for by clients, peers, and Zola across a set of criteria and can be counted on to deliver the same exceptional experience to future couples. This year, more than 4,000 small businesses around the country are being celebrated with a Best of Zola badge.The winners run the gamut from wedding venues and planners to photographers and bands/DJs, illustrating the breadth of offerings that Zola provides. They range from single-owner operations to larger organizations, and are located in every corner of the United States, servicing the millions of couples that choose Zola to plan their weddings.This year, the Zola team reviewed the over 40,000 vendors that have published listings in their marketplace

Retail Bum
Sep 14th, 2023
Zola Unveils Baby Registry Service for Expecting Parents

Zola unveils Baby registry service for expecting parents.

PYMNTS
Sep 14th, 2023
Zola, Etsy Explore Ways to Engage Consumers Through Baby Registries

As brands and retailers seek additional avenues to connect with consumers looking to make purchases, Zola, the wedding registry platform, is expanding its reach into the baby market by introducing a new app.

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