Global Senior Experience Design Leader

OpenKrill; United States; Remote; USD 120,000 - 173,000; Full time

Job summary

Airbnb is seeking a Senior Staff Experience Designer to partner across writers, researchers, product specialists and engineers to shape beautiful, usable products that connect communities. The role emphasizes inclusive design, accessibility, and a global roadmap spanning EMEA, LATAM, and APAC, with a leadership dimension in a global team.

You will work across time zones to define problems, drive strategic bets, and model AI-enabled workflows while mentoring designers and aligning with product

Qualifications

• Bachelor's degree or equivalent combination of education and progressive experience.
• 12+ years of design experience.
• Excellent visual and interaction skills and craft.
• Defines the design direction and process and can lead others through it.
• Can accurately scope their work as well as their teammate's.
• Can effortlessly motivate and drive 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 the ability to think beyond the pixels and design for offline experiences.
• Experience with making complex information, tools, and services easily digestible for your audience.
• 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 the evolution of the Airbnb platform from a design perspective; ensure consistency with, and contribute to, 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

12+ years experience

Education

Bachelor's degree or equivalent

Job description

Airbnb is seeking a Senior Staff Experience Designer to partner across writers, researchers, product specialists and engineers to shape beautiful, usable products that connect communities. The role emphasizes inclusive design, accessibility, and a global roadmap spanning EMEA, LATAM, and APAC, with a leadership dimension in a global team.

You will work across time zones to define problems, drive strategic bets, and model AI-enabled workflows while mentoring designers and aligning with product