Início EAU Lead Product Designer

Início EAU Lead Product Designer

Lead Product Designer

Full time na Agoda no UAE
Publicado em January 28, 2025

Detalhes do emprego

Roles and responsibilities

  • Be at the forefront of major Design initiatives, partnering with your Product colleagues on visions and roadmaps
  • Stakeholder management and ability to communicate with Design & Product colleagues for buy-in
  • Balance multiple priorities assessing cost vs benefits and market opportunities
  • Understand the Online Travel market
    • Products
    • Payment methods
    • Pricing (strategy, coupons)
    • Marketing partnerships (messaging of marketing)
    • Support channels (email, phone, chat, applications)
  • Set and refine the design quality bar, in partnership with design leadership, through our principles and design system
  • Design with Accessibility in mind
  • Build key partnerships with Product, Research, Engineering and Design Leadership
  • Experience working with distributed teams in multiple time zones and an affinity for designing and facilitating asynchronous collaborative work
  • A believer in our mission of bringing everyone the inspiration to create a life they love
Design & Customer centricity attributes :
  • Testing prototypes and hypotheses with users to collect feedback
  • Present your work to peers and leadership, async and in-person
  • Strong user interface and visual design skills
  • Proficiency with relevant tools, standards and frameworks (Figma, Design Tokens, WCAG etc.)
  • Past work experience showcasing the ability to define major workstreams, communicate a plan and success measurement framework, and execute
  • A Research focus within the market with an understanding of the cultural nuances, enabling the ability to dig deeper into user insights to collate themes that lead to product decisions.
  • Partner facing Research (B2B)
    • Accommodations partners
    • Hotels & Non Hotel Accommodation
Nice to haves :
  • Previous experience working for an Online Travel Agency
Qualities we value in :
  • A master of the craft and cohesive product strategy leader with endless curiosity
  • Effective articulation of ideas and design solutions
  • Expressing feedback with kindness and candor
  • Tolerance for ambiguity and healthy curiosity
  • Translation of quantitative & qualitative insights into design decisions
  • Contribution to our culture: motivation, optimism, quality, integrity
  • Prior experience designing for consumer-facing products
  • Visual design skills

Desired candidate profile

  1. User-Centered Design (UCD):
    • Deep understanding of UCD principles, ensuring that all design decisions prioritize the needs and behaviors of the users.
    • Expertise in conducting user research, including interviews, surveys, and usability testing, to gather insights and inform design decisions.
  2. Design Thinking:
    • Strong proficiency in applying design thinking methodologies to solve complex problems, empathizing with users, ideating solutions, prototyping, and testing.
    • A creative and iterative approach to problem-solving that allows for continuous improvement based on user feedback.
  3. UI/UX Design Expertise:
    • UI (User Interface) Design: Expertise in creating visually appealing and functional user interfaces that align with branding guidelines.
    • UX (User Experience) Design: Designing seamless, intuitive experiences, ensuring the product is easy to navigate and use.
    • Experience with interaction design and information architecture to structure content and ensure smooth workflows.
  4. Prototyping and Wireframing:
    • Proficiency in creating wireframes , mockups , and interactive prototypes to visualize design concepts.
    • Experience with tools like Figma , Sketch , Adobe XD , InVision , or Axure for designing and prototyping.
  5. Collaboration and Communication:
    • Strong communication skills to collaborate with cross-functional teams (engineering, product, marketing) to ensure design consistency and functionality.
    • Ability to present and articulate design concepts and decisions to non-design stakeholders, including senior management.
    • Providing design feedback and conducting design reviews for team members.
  6. Design Leadership:
    • Leading design projects and overseeing the design process from ideation to final implementation.
    • Mentoring and guiding junior designers, fostering an environment of creativity, learning, and improvement.
    • Setting design standards and guidelines to maintain consistency across the product portfolio.
  7. Problem Solving and Critical Thinking:
    • Ability to tackle complex problems and come up with creative design solutions that balance user needs, business goals, and technical feasibility.
    • A solution-oriented mindset, comfortable working in ambiguous or rapidly changing environments.
  8. Data-Driven Decision Making:
    • Using analytics and user feedback to iterate and improve designs continuously.
    • Familiarity with user testing, A/B testing, and analyzing behavioral data to inform design iterations.
  9. Branding and Visual Design:
    • Experience in establishing or maintaining design systems and ensuring visual consistency across platforms and devices.
    • A strong understanding of visual design principles such as typography, color theory, spacing, and iconography.
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