Lead Product Designer, Traveler

Lead Product Designer, Traveler

About GetYourGuide

GetYourGuide is the globally leading marketplace for unforgettable travel experiences. Travelers use GetYourGuide to discover the best things to do in a destination.

Since its founding in 2009, travelers from over 170 countries have booked more than 80 million tours, activities, and attraction tickets through GetYourGuide.

Powered by a global team of over 700 travel experts and technologists, we are headquartered in Berlin and have 17 local offices around the world.

Visit our careers website to learn more.

Team mission

As the Lead Product Designer of our Traveler Team, you'll be contributing to key areas of our user-facing products, including supporting our customer's in their search and discovery, landing page, and activity content experiences - in other words, extremely important parts of the user flow that ensure all of our customers can book incredible experiences with ease and joy.

You'll focus on providing a range of support to various projects across a number of our Traveler mission teams. You will work closely with the Product and Engineering Managers in this vertical to build industry-leading search and discovery experiences.

About our UX team : We are a multi-disciplinary team of Product Designers, Content Designers, and UX Researchers that are passionate about solving customer problems along the travel journey in an effective and delightful way.

We combine empathy, our craft, and creativity to create valuable, usable, and delightful product experiences. Our work is guided by strong principles that make our experience focus on value and feel simple, trustworthy, human, and unique.

We collaborate with Product, Engineering, and Data to ensure those principles are front and center in the features we develop.

You will :

• Be a thought partner to your Product Manager, building the product strategy and roadmap together.
• Confidently work through large, ambigious, cross-team projects at the highest level of craft quality
• Develop a strong, user-focused point of view on your product area. Advocate for user needs and your vision in a collaborative way.

In this role specifically, you will need to understand both the needs of our partners and our end customers.

• Work with UX researchers to plan research initiatives to inform and evaluate product decisions. Leverage both qualitative and quantitative insights in your decision making.
• Collaborate with your stakeholders to facilitate alignment, create shared understanding, and communicate your design rationale.
• Design and iterate on high-quality deliverables across web, native apps, and other surfaces.
• Design and test high-quality deliverables. Work with our engineers to ensure a high quality bar in implementation.
• Mentor other designers; give constructive feedback to strengthen your peers’ decision making skills and quality of work.
• Dive deep into customer data and research insights, leverage both qualitative and quantitative insights in your decision making.
• Develop a strong, customer-focused point of view on our product and where it’s headed.

Who you are :

• Minimum 5+ years experience with end-to-end product design in a start-up, SMB, a large company with a digital offering, or a design consulting agency;
• A demonstrable problem-solving mindset, focusing on outcomes and not output, and applying user feedback or multivariate testing tools to validate hypothesis;
• Proven track record in leading medium design projects that demonstrate a user-centered approach and high-quality deliverables;
• Examples that demonstrate an understanding of and ability to contribute to visual design, including branding, composition, and UI components;
• Complete familiarity with designing for multiple platforms, including Web, iOS, and Android, and with approaches and methodologies such as responsive design or mobile-first;
• Demonstrable ability to bring ideas to life through prototyping through simple click-thru mock-ups;
• Demonstrable ability to present design concepts and final designs, articulate the decision rationale behind them, and build a product vision;
• Demonstrable ability to be proactive and utterly comfortable with working autonomously;
• Experience working closely within cross-disciplinary product teams, including Product Managers and Engineers.
• A history of strong communication and collaboration with other functional roles is essential;
• A demonstrable understanding of how UX impacts business objectives and KPIs;
• A portfolio of case studies showcasing relevant work that illustrates your process and approach to UX design.

How we set you up for success :

• Invest in your development with an annual personal growth budget
• Create a comfortable workspace at home with an annual home office budget
• Become a part of our success with virtual stock options
• Enjoy flexibility with a hybrid work-from-home and telecommuting policy
• Save on transportation costs with discounted public transportation tickets
• Support your loved ones with generous maternity and paternity leave policies
• And more...
Vor 30+ Tagen