We’re looking for a motivated Lead/Principal Product Designer to help us envision and deliver delightful customer experiences. We work on a global scale for multiple brands, across devices and platforms, in a diverse and collaborative environment.
As a Lead/Principal Product Designer, you have an opportunity to think through the framing of problems with a focus on end-user needs and desires - as well as mentor/lead other designers on the team. With the product team you will identify, design, specify and implement end-to-end experiences for a wide range of products and services
What you’ll do
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Lead: Manage and lead the team of designers, mentor UI/UX designers, and set long-term and sprint priorities for the team
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Trust the process: Step into a methodical design process anchored in planning, prioritizing, and scheduling releases
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Strategize & problem-solve
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Balance customer needs and Expedia’s business goals, market viability, and technical feasibility
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Translate customer insights into concepts, user journeys, storyboards, system maps, user flows, wireframes, and prototypes using Figma, Adobe CS, and other design tools.
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Incorporate user research and usability testing to integrate into product solutions
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Create
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Design UI and UX with a conversion-optimization-focused mindset
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Together with the team, produce UI/UX documentation for website and conversion flows, including sitemaps, wireframes, and prototypes
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Collaborate
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Thrive in an agile development environment and enjoy the pave of a startup
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Effectively collaborate with multi-disciplinary teams, including product managers, engineers, marketers, and executive leadership
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Partner with engineers to ensure designs are properly implemented
What you bring to the table
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Design and Leadership Experience: 7+ years of design experience with a portfolio of successful case studies and a successful track record leading a team of designers
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Strategic Creativity
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You have experience delivering design strategies, concepts, personas, user journeys, storyboards, user flows, wireframes, prototypes, and more.
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You understand and use throughout your work design thinking process requirements, including the typical time and resources needed to produce quality work
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Design fluency
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You bring an eye for detail and a great sense of aesthetics and functionality
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You have experience working with a design system and have a deep understanding of the digital product lifecycle
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You have experience working on (or ability and high interest in) UI and UX research and strategy
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You’re comfortable with development processes and tools. You have a working knowledge of Figma and Adobe CS, as well as familiarity with basic HTML/CSS, React, APIs, etc.
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Effective communication & successful collaboration
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A strong communicator, you can articulately express and present the rationale behind design decisions in a thoughtful way
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Ability to collaborate with the design team and cross-functional teams to drive win-win solutions and generate new impactful ideas
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Data-driven growth mindset
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You’re excited to leverage analytics, usability tests, and other forms of qualitative and quantitative feedback informing creative processes. You are always learning new ways of improving GD’s product, generating more value for customers, and optimizing your craft.
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Flexibility
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You’re nimble, iterating quickly with a lean methodology approach as new ideas and data points emerge in order to meet our customers’ needs
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You can excel in a dynamic, fast-paced environment
