KAYAK

Senior Product Designer

KAYAK

full-time

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Location Type: Hybrid

Location: Berlin • Germany

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Job Level

Senior

About the role

  • 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
Applicant Tracking System Keywords

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Hard Skills & Tools
user experience designinteraction designusability studiesuser researchprototypingdesign systemsaccessibility standardsinclusive design practicesanalytical thinkingproblem-solving
Soft Skills
communication skillstime managementself-directedattention to detailcollaborationcuriosityadaptabilityownershipinfluencefacilitation
Certifications
Bachelor’s degree in DesignBachelor’s degree in Human-Computer Interaction