Hybrid Senior Product Designer

at KAYAK

• Job title: Senior Product Designer
• Job type: Full Time
• Experience level: Senior
• Salary: Not specified
• Degree requirement: Bachelor's Degree
• Location requirements: Hybrid, Berlin, Germany

About the role

• Senior Product Designer at KAYAK, shaping corporate travel solutions through innovative user experience designs. Collaborating with cross-functional teams to deliver impactful products.

Responsibilities

• Be autonomous and collaborative. Take full ownership of your design work and full responsibility for communication with your teammates. Own the success or failure of your projects.
• Interface directly with cross-functional teams and customers to collect the insights and constraints that inform your design decisions.
• Rapidly produce multiple concepts and prototypes for design solutions that drive user and business impact.
• Apply systems thinking to approach scalable design solutions and the areas they impact, both now and in the future.
• Conduct qualitative user research, analyze findings, and translate insights into actionable improvements to your product area.
• Facilitate alignment within cross-functional teams and senior stakeholders by clearly communicating design rationale, scope, and measurable success criteria.
• Influence strategic direction for your product area while synthesizing feedback from across the organization and iterating thoughtfully on proposed solutions.

Requirements

• 4+ years of experience in a B2B or B2C product design organization
• Mastery of user experience and interaction design principles, with demonstrated ability to solve complex product challenges end-to-end.
• An understanding of the entire product development process and the ability to ship features inside an ever-growing and experimenting company.
• Excellent communication skills, together with analytical thinking and problem-solving capability. Able to break down and simplify sophisticated problems and confidently present to a mixed audience of different levels in the organization.
• A human-centered design mentality, with experience conducting usability studies, performing user research, or crafting options for experimentation.
• Experience working in a dynamic design process where quantitative and qualitative customer data guide decisions.
• Strong time management skills and the ability to be self-directed and prioritize effectively. Demonstrated attention to detail that teammates can rely on.
• Proficiency using modern design, user research, prototyping, and AI tools, with experience in testing interactive prototypes and contributing to shared design systems.
• A positive demeanor toward your work, including curiosity to learn and a willingness to adapt as new and different challenges constantly emerge.
• Strong understanding of accessibility standards and inclusive design practices, including experience designing for screen readers, color contrast, and adaptable text sizes.
• Bachelor’s degree or foreign equivalent in Design, Human-Computer Interaction, or a closely related field.

Benefits

• 6 weeks of paid vacation
• Work from (almost) anywhere for up to 20 days per year
• Focus on mental health and well-being:
• Company-paid therapy sessions through SpringHealth
• Company-paid subscription to HeadSpace
• Company-wide week off a year - the whole team fully recharges (and returns without a pile-up of work!)
• No meeting Fridays
• Paid parental leave
• Paid volunteer time
• Focus on your career growth:
• Development Dollars
• Leadership development
• Access to thousands of on-demand e-learnings
• Travel Discounts
• Employee Resource Groups
• Free lunch 2 days per week
• Pension plan contributions
• Public transportation subsidies
• Bike leasing program
• Monthly social events, massages, Thursday happy hours, sports teams
• An awesome office in Friedrichshain, Berlin