Senior Global Experience Designer — Remote

Design Better Podcast; Greater London; Hybrid; GBP 112,000 - 140,000; Full time

Job summary

Airbnb is seeking a Staff Experience Designer to partner with writers, researchers, product specialists and engineers to build beautiful, usable products and empower the community. You will help ensure global products feel local across EMEA, LATAM, and APAC, adapting core experiences to regional needs while feeding market insights into the broader strategy; you will report as IC to a Manager or Director.

In London, you will lead with a high bar for craft, model AI-enabled ways of working, and

Qualifications

• Bachelor's degree or equivalent combination of education and progressive experience.
• 10+ years of experience in design leadership.
• Strong storytelling, presentation, and stakeholder management skills.
• Experience designing platforms and systems for global products.
• Ability to navigate ambiguity and set strategy for global products.

Responsibilities

• Support and shape the evolution of the Airbnb platform from a design perspective; ensure consistency with our brand architecture and product architecture.
• Partner with Product Managers, Engineers, Data Scientist, Researchers and Writers to define problems & goals, map user flows, prototype interactions, and launch new products and services.
• Influence leadership decision making through a clear point of view and define and solve highly complex problems autonomously.
• Provide indirect leadership and mentorship for a team of designers through the end-to-end interaction and visual design of products and services for a global audience.
• Anticipate business challenges and independently create product solutions. Indirectly lead the work of a team of talented designers, writers, program managers, researchers, product managers and engineers as the defacto creative director of innovative projects
• Build strong relationships with leaders inside and outside of core product teams; strong communication and executive stakeholder management skills.
• Have a keen understanding of the technological, business and user opportunities and constraints.
• Scopes project work (in partnership with PMs and engineers) and helps define the design process and timeline.

Skills

Design leadership

Visual and interaction craft

Stakeholder management

Systems thinking

Team leadership in design

Global product design experience

Storytelling and presentation

Education

Bachelor's degree or equivalent

Job description

Airbnb is seeking a Staff Experience Designer to partner with writers, researchers, product specialists and engineers to build beautiful, usable products and empower the community. You will help ensure global products feel local across EMEA, LATAM, and APAC, adapting core experiences to regional needs while feeding market insights into the broader strategy; you will report as IC to a Manager or Director.

In London, you will lead with a high bar for craft, model AI-enabled ways of working, and