Product Designer (Fixed term contract - maternity cover)

Perk; Greater London; Hybrid; GBP 50,000 - 70,000; Full time

Job summary

A global travel management company is seeking a Product Designer to join their Travel platform team on a one-year contract in London. In this role, you will work on creating user-centered designs that enhance the business travel experience for employees and travel managers. You will engage in the entire design process, collaborating with a diverse team to deliver impactful designs. Ideal candidates should have strong skills in Figma and a user-centered mindset.

Benefits

Competitive compensation, including equity

Generous vacation days

Health perks such as private healthcare

Flexible compensation plan

Unforgettable company events

Mental health support tool

Exponential growth opportunities

Qualifications

• 3+ years working as a Product Designer, ideally with SaaS products.
• Solid knowledge of Figma and remote workshop tools.
• Great understanding of usability principles, interaction design patterns, and information architecture.

Responsibilities

• Work autonomously on the product experience of Perk’s Travel platform.
• Collaborate with product managers, UX researchers, and engineers.
• Contribute to the design system 'Suitcase'.

Skills

Product Design

Figma

User-Centered Design

Usability Principles

Communication Skills

Research Skills

Tools

FigJam

Miro

Job description

About Us

Perk (formerly TravelPerk) is the intelligent platform for travel and spend management. Built to tackle the time-consuming, manual work that gets in the way of real work, our tools automate everything from travel bookings to expenses, invoice processing, and more. By eliminating this shadow work that wastes hours, erodes morale, and saps innovation, we’re on a mission to power real work, with real impact.

We’re trusted by more than 10,000 companies worldwide, including Wise, On Running, Breitling, and Fabletics, and we’re tackling the 7 hours of lost productivity per employee each week, a $1.7 trillion problem.

Founded in 2015, Perk has grown into a global company of more than 1,800 people across 12 offices globally, with headquarters in London and Boston. We combine innovation, control, and simplicity to transform how businesses work and how people feel at work.

At Perk, we’re driven by our values, like being an owner, delivering a 7-star experience, and working as one team. We value curiosity, purpose, and mindset, not just knowledge, to unlock the power in your potential. Our talent team brings together leading minds from the travel and SaaS industries, representing over 70 countries. If you’re excited about having a real impact and shaping how millions of people experience work, we’d love you on the team.

Visit www.perk.com to learn more.

The role

At Perk, we believe in empowering cross-functional teams that drive exceptional results for our customers and the company. We are currently looking for a Product Designer to join our Travel platform team for a one-year contract.

Business travel should be simple, intuitive, and delightful. Our Travel platform sits at the core of the Perk experience, helping employees book and manage their trips seamlessly while giving travel managers the tools they need to maintain policy compliance and cost control.

As a Product Designer on the Travel platform, you'll collaborate with Product and Engineering partners to craft experiences that make business travel effortless for our customers. You'll contribute to strategic initiatives across various areas of the travel experience—from search and booking to trip management and traveler support. Your work will directly impact how millions of users interact with business travel, balancing employee satisfaction with company requirements while driving measurable business outcomes.

What will my day look like?

• Work autonomously on the product experience of Perk’s Travel platform

• Work on the end-to-end design process, starting with the problem definition to participating in user research, sketching, prototyping and producing final designs

• Iterate on the existing product through constant research, validation, heuristic reviews and discovery, with the support of our UX research team

• Collaborate with your team in defining the product strategy and roadmap

• Contribute to “Suitcase”, our design system

Don't worry, you won't be doing this alone! You’ll collaborate daily with product managers, UX researchers, content designers, engineers, data analysts, and a supportive team of product designers like yourself.

What skills are required?

• 3+ years working as a Product Designer (ideally working with SaaS products)

• Solid knowledge of Figma and remote workshop tools such as FigJam or Miro

• Great understanding of usability principles, information architecture, visual hierarchy, and interaction design patterns (web and mobile)

• An autonomous and proactive mindset

• User-centred mentality (sounds obvious, but we really mean it!)

• Previous experience conducting user interviews and user testing. You will collaborate with our in-house research team for more complex research pieces

• Understanding of business goals and metrics, in order to work alongside product managers

• Solid communication skills to present and articulate your ideas, run small workshops and facilitate collaboration with your team

• Understanding of tech constraints and experience working with engineers

• Familiarity with design systems

• English language skills to a professional level, both writing and speaking

Why you’ll love our team

You’ll join a team of 50+ Product Designers, Content Designers and Researchers, with multiple nationalities, backgrounds and personalities. You will be working in a highly collaborative environment where feedback, transparency, and support are at the core of what we do. We rely on each other’s strengths, and we save our competitiveness for the occasional after-work Pictionary game :)

We value autonomy, proactivity, and creativity. We create time, space, and opportunities to think, experiment, and share ideas. And we firmly believe in prioritising impact over effort.

Your career and development are supported daily. We will guide you through our Competency Framework, have regular development conversations, and offer a transparent career path - whether you will want to progress as an individual contributor or as a design manager.

Want to know more? Find us at travelperk.design

Our benefits

• Competitive compensation, including equity in the company;

• Generous vacation days so you can rest and recharge;

• Health perks such as private healthcare or gym allowance, depending on location;

• “Flexible compensation plan” to help you diversify and increase the net salary;

• Unforgettable Perk events, including occasional travel to one of our hubs;

• A mental health support tool for your well-being;

• Exponential growth opportunities;

How we work

Our Vision is for a world where Perk serves as the platform for human connection in-real-life (IRL). We take an IRL-first approach to work, where our team works together in-person 3 days a week. As such, this role requires you to be based within commuting distance of our Barcelona OR London hub. We fundamentally believe in the value of meeting in-real-life to improve connectivity, productivity, creativity and ultimately making us a great place to work.

Please submit your resume in English if you choose to apply. Remember to submit an updated portfolio and resume.

Perk is a global company with a diverse customer base—and we want to ensure the people behind our product reflect that. We’re an equal opportunity employer, meaning you’re welcome at Perk regardless of your appearance, where you’re from, or anything else that makes you “you”.

Protect Yourself from Recruitment Scams

All official communication from Perk will always come from email addresses ending in @perk.com or @externalperk.com, our verified social media channels, or recruiters listed on our official LinkedIn page. We will never ask you to pay for equipment, training, or fees, request sensitive personal information such as bank details early in the process, or communicate through unofficial apps like WhatsApp, Telegram, or Signal. If you receive a message claiming to be from Perk that seems suspicious, please do not respond. Forward it to [e-mail], and we will confirm whether it is legitimate.