Senior Product Designer - Strategic Partnerships & Affiliates (SPA)

Expedia Group; Washington (District of Columbia); On-site; USD 173,000 - 243,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Medical, dental, and vision coverage

Paid time off

Employee Assistance Program

Wellness and travel reimbursement

Travel discounts

IATAN membership

Job summary

Expedia Group is seeking a senior Product Designer to shape end-to-end experiences for travelers and partners. You will work with a cross-functional team to translate requirements into elegant UI strategies, ensure consistency via design systems, and leverage AI tools to improve efficiency.

Based at Seattle HQ, this role requires strong collaboration with Product, Engineering, Marketing and Research, and a passion for user-centric innovation across devices and platforms.

Qualifications

• 8+ years of professional experience in User Experience Design.
• Experience translating product requirements into design strategy.
• Experience mapping customer journeys and using user stories and personas.
• Experience crafting wireframes, mockups, and prototypes.
• Experience leveraging design systems for consistency and velocity.
• Experience collaborating with Product, Engineering, Marketing, Content and Research.
• Ability to work through high levels of ambiguity.
• Strong attention to design and visual detail.
• Knowledge of current design tools and software.
• A portfolio showing design skills across a product life cycle.

Responsibilities

• Lead collaborative efforts to define and frame complex product concepts and generate compelling solutions.
• Negotiate priorities and contribute to building experience roadmaps for the team.
• Develop business metrics and experience success metrics and align them.
• Analyze research and test findings to identify novel insights from multiple data sources.
• Communicate vision to internal and external stakeholders through storytelling.
• Collaborate with external Business, Product and Engineering stakeholders on requirements and deliverables.
• Leverage agentic design and prototyping tools to streamline design processes.
• Propose agentic tactics and features to drive cross-functional investments.

Skills

User Experience Design

Human-Computer Interaction

Design strategy

User journeys

Wireframes

Mockups

Prototypes

Design systems

AI design tools

Stakeholder collaboration

Ambiguity tolerance

Portfolio showcase

Education

Bachelors or Masters in UX/HCI

Equivalent professional experience

Job description

At Expedia Group, we help travelers explore the world, one journey at a time. As a global travel company powered by passionate people, trusted partnerships, and leading technology, we connect travelers, partners, and advertisers through our consumer brands, B2B network, and travel advertising business. Here, you'll do meaningful work that helps millions of people discover, book, and experience travel with more ease, confidence, and joy. Our five Behaviors-Traveler First, Think Big, Operate with Excellence, Ownership Mindset, and Succeed Together-help foster a supportive environment where people can grow their careers and have the flexibility, benefits, and support to do their best work. Join us and build for travelers everywhere.

Location

Seattle HQ

The total cash range for this position in Seattle is $173,000.00 to $242,500.00. Employees in this role have the potential to increase their pay up to $277,000.00, which is the top of the range, based on ongoing, demonstrated, and sustained performance in the role.

Starting pay for this role will vary based on multiple factors, including location, available budget, and an individual’s knowledge, skills, and experience. Pay ranges may be modified in the future.

The Product Team creates high-quality end-to-end experiences for travelers, partners, and Expedia Group. Our focus on customer-centric innovation enables us to develop products that build loyalty and repeat business. We partner closely with teams across Expedia Group to drive growth and achieve results for our customers and the company.

We connect Travelers to new experiences, through trusted relationships. We use the power of Expedia Group brands to empower strategic partners to nurture and grow the existing relationship with their audience. Strategic Partnerships and Affiliates breadth of solutions which include cashback, travel offers, loyalty exchange, co-branded sites, Affiliate APIs and EG's Affiliate Program, bring a partners' audience onto EG sites, thereby increasing EG's traffic and exposure.

Strategic Partnerships & Affiliates (SPA) is one of Expedia Group’s fastest-growing businesses, powered by a start-up mindset, rapid experimentation, and a clear purpose: to build partnerships and products that meet travelers wherever they choose to discover and book travel. Whether it’s landing pages that give travelers cash back, frictionless coupon redemption or optimized Buy Now Pay Later experiences, in this role, you'll help travelers save on travel in deeply integrated ways.

In This Role

• Lead collaborative efforts to define and frame complex product concepts or needs with peer roles and generate multiple potential compelling solutions to advance the product direction.
• Negotiate for XDs priorities considering both long-term strategy and direction and contributes to building experience roadmaps for team.
• Contribute to the development of both business metrics and experience success metrics, promoting harmony and alignment between them.
• Analyze and synthesize complex research and test findings to identify novel insights, considering multiple sources of information before drawing conclusions.
• Appropriately weigh research and test findings against other data points (e.g., technical, business) to make informed design decisions and determine the right solution.
• Convincingly communicate vision and crisp narratives to a range of internal and external stakeholders, through effective visual storytelling.
• Partner effectively with a range of external Business, Product and Engineering stakeholders, collaborating on requirements, concepts and deliverables where appropriate.
• Thoughtfully leverage emergent agentic design and prototyping tools to streamline design processes without compromising quality.
• Envision and propose agentic tactics and features in your designs, to drive the prioritization of cross-functional investments in a modern user experience.
• Design user interactions that optimize user engagement, product performance, and business impact.
• Define simple, elegant, trustworthy experiences and hold the team accountable to a high quality bar.
• Collaborate strategically with developers to ensure seamless implementation and understand the nuance between hard tech-constraints and opportunities to challenge conventions.
• Comprehensively evaluate the system of connections and the library of tools and methodologies available to arrive at the optimal solution.
• Establish processes and facilitate rituals for both giving and receiving feedback within the XD group and across peer groups, and actively celebrate team successes.
• Work successfully through high levels of ambiguity.

Minimum Qualifications

• Bachelors or Masters degree in User Experience Design, Human-Computer Interaction, or a related field
• or equivalent professional experience.
• 8+ years of professional experience working in User Experience Design or a related professional field.
• Experience translating product requirements into design strategy and then acting on that strategy to deliver proposed design solutions which meet those requirements.
• Experience mapping customer journeys and leveraging user stories and personas to inform design strategy.
• Experience crafting design deliverables at various fidelities, including wireframes, mockups, and prototypes.
• Experience leveraging design systems and shared component libraries to ensure consistency and velocity.
• Experience thoughtfully leveraging emergent AI tools to streamline design processes without compromising quality.
• Experience collaborating with a range of diverse stakeholders across Product, Engineering, Marketing, Content and Research.
• Ability to work successfully through high levels of ambiguity.
• Strong attention to design and visual detail.
• Knowledge of current design tools and software.
• A portfolio showcasing design skills representative of your work at each stage of a product life cycle, from conception to release, that details the team, thought processes, successes, and pivots along the way.

Preferred Qualifications

• Experience working across multiple devices, webviews and browsers.
• Experience in designing for human diversity (internationalization, localization, accessibility, etc.)
• Experience designing for agentic platforms and tools.
• Experience working on strategic partnerships.
• Experience presenting to executive audiences.

Benefits and perks

Expedia Group offers benefits and perks designed to support employees and their families, including medical, dental, and vision coverage, paid time off, an Employee Assistance Program, wellness and travel reimbursement, travel discounts, and International Airlines Travel Agent Network (IATAN) membership. Learn more about life at Expedia Group at .

Accommodation requests

Expedia Group is committed to providing an inclusive and accessible recruiting experience.

About Expedia Group

Expedia Group includes three flagship consumer brands - Expedia, Hotels.com, and Vrbo - along with a leading B2B travel business and travel advertising offerings. Across our brands and business, we help travelers explore the world with confidence and ease.

Equal Opportunity

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