Senior Product Designer, Traveler

About GetYourGuide

GetYourGuide is the globally leading marketplace for unforgettable travel experiences. Travelers use GetYourGuide to discover the best things to do in a destination. Since its founding in 2009, people from all over the world have booked more than 135 million tours, activities, and attraction tickets through GetYourGuide. Powered by a global team of over 800 travel experts and technologists, we are headquartered in Berlin and have 18 local offices around the world. Visit our careers website to learn more.

Team mission

Marketplace Group owns the mobile and web platforms of GetYourGuide. We aim to deliver an amazing customer journey through great user interfaces and rigorous A/B testing. We aim to build an unbeatable e-commerce site and a seamless booking experience for our users. 

The Traveler Marketplace team’s mission is to unlock unforgettable experiences for travelers around the world by making it easy to find, book, and enjoy activities with ease. As part of this team, you will drive products to support GetYourGuide in a consumer-facing team.

As a Senior Product Designer, you will be part of a cross-functional team working with product managers, engineers, and data professionals, creating the vision for a product area, executing it, and constantly learning from our customers. You will also be part of our UX team made up of product designers, researchers, and content designers. 

You will:

• You will design and iterate with your team high-quality search experiences that will help travelers find the best match for their interests & constraints.
• You will explore ambiguous design challenges with various approaches and methodologies to help your team orient in the problem spaces.
• You will leverage qualitative and quantitative insights in making day-to-day design and product decisions.
• You will work with UX researchers to plan strategic research initiatives and test your own designs.
• You will work closely with Content Design to structure and iterate upon your designs.
• You will develop a strong, user-centered point of view on your product area and collaboratively advocate for user needs and your vision.
• You will mentor other designers and give constructive feedback to strengthen your peers’ decision-making skills and quality of work.
• You will collaborate with your stakeholders to facilitate alignment, create shared understanding, and communicate your design rationale.
• You’ll be a thought partner to your Product Manager, building the product strategy and roadmap together.

Who you are

• Minimum 5+ years experience with end-to-end product design in a startup, SMB, large company with a digital offering, or design consulting agency;
• Experience with B2C platforms, customer-facing platforms, search experiences and e-commerce products are a huge advantage;
• A demonstrable problem-solving mindset, focusing on outcomes and not output, and applying user feedback or a/b testing tools to validate hypothesis;
• Proven track-record in leading medium design projects that demonstrate a user-centered approach and high-quality deliverables;
• Examples that demonstrate an understanding of and ability to contribute to visual design, including branding, composition, and UI components;
• Demonstrable ability to bring ideas to life through prototyping through simple click-thru mock-ups;
• Demonstrable ability to present design concepts and final designs, articulate the decision rationale behind them, and build a product vision;
• Demonstrable ability to be proactive and comfortable with working autonomously;
• Experience working closely within cross-disciplinary product teams, including Product Managers and Engineers. A history of strong communication and collaboration with other functional roles is essential;
• A demonstrable understanding of how UX impacts business objectives and KPIs.
• Bring a wealth of experience in designing intuitive, engaging user experiences across both mobile and web platforms.

About the GetYourGuide UX Team

We are a multi-disciplinary team of Product Designers, Content Designers, and UX Researchers that are passionate about solving customer problems in an effective and delightful way. We combine empathy, our craft, and creativity to create valuable, usable, and delightful product experiences. Our work is guided by strong principles that make our experience focus on value and feel simple, trustworthy, human, and unique. We collaborate with Product, Engineering, and Data to ensure those principles are front and center in the features we develop.

Are you interested in sharing our values and adding to our culture? We are already looking forward to hearing from you. If you have any further questions please do not hesitate to contact us via [email protected].

It is our commitment that every qualified person will be evaluated according to skills regardless of age, gender identity, ethnicity, sexual orientation, disability status, or religion. Please refrain from including your picture and age with the application. 

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How we set you up for success:

• Invest in your development with an annual personal growth budget
• Become a part of our success with virtual stock options
• Enjoy flexibility with a hybrid work-from-home and telecommuting policy
• Save on transportation costs with discounted public transportation tickets
• Support your loved ones with generous maternity and paternity leave policies

And more...

We look forward to hearing from you

Unlock your full potential and join our mission to create unforgettable experiences for millions around the world. If you have the skills and passion for joining our team, we invite you to apply by submitting your CV/resume in English through the form below. Check out how we hire for tips and visibility into our process and check out life at GetYourGuide. If you have any further questions, please do not hesitate to contact us via [email protected].

We are an equal opportunity employer

Our commitment is that every qualified person will be evaluated according to skills regardless of age, gender identity, ethnicity, sexual orientation, disability status, or religion. Please refrain from including your picture and age with the application. 

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