Description

As a Staff Experience Designer at Airbnb, you will lead innovation on new product areas and strategic initiatives, partnering with researchers, writers, and engineers to build beautiful, accessible, and emotionally resonant experiences. You'll oversee the full design process from insight to launch, influencing leadership decisions and mentoring a team of designers.

Requirements

• 10+ years of experience as a designer/design leader.
• Excellent visual and interaction skills and craft.
• Ability to define design direction and process and lead others through it.
• Ability to scope work accurately for self and teammates.
• Experience motivating and driving small to medium teams to transform a product.
• Demonstrated ability to help a team navigate ambiguity, set vision, and set strategy for global products.
• Systems-thinker with ability to think beyond pixels and design for offline experiences.
• Experience making complex information, tools, and services easily digestible.
• Strong storytelling, presentation, communication, and stakeholder management skills.
• Experience designing platforms and systems.
• Experience managing and collaborating with research and writing disciplines.
• 0 to 1 experience or experience redesigning major elements of product, experience, or service design.

Responsibilities

• Support and shape the evolution of the Airbnb platform from a design perspective; ensure consistency with brand and product architecture.
• Partner with Product Managers, Engineers, Data Scientists, Researchers, and Writers to define problems, map user flows, prototype interactions, and launch new products.
• Influence leadership decision making through a clear point of view and solve highly complex problems autonomously.
• Provide indirect leadership and mentorship for a team of designers through end-to-end interaction and visual design.
• Anticipate business challenges and independently create product solutions.
• Indirectly lead the work of designers, writers, program managers, researchers, product managers, and engineers as creative director of innovative projects.
• Build strong relationships with leaders inside and outside of core product teams; strong communication and stakeholder management.
• Understand technological, business, and user opportunities and constraints.
• Scope project work and help define the design process and timeline.