About KAYAK
- KAYAK is part of Booking Holdings (NASDAQ: BKNG) and is a leading travel search engine.
- The company operates a portfolio of global metasearch brands including momondo, Cheapflights and HotelsCombined.
- KAYAK is transforming business travel with a new corporate travel solution, KAYAK for Business(K4B).
About the Role
- Senior Product Designer helping to shape and elevate the user experience for the corporate travel shopping experience.
- As a senior member of the product design team, you will create, test, and deliver web and mobile experiences within an Agile software development team.
- Work with a diverse team of Product Managers, Engineers and Designers to influence the strategic direction for product areas by translating insights into ideas that balance business goals, technical constraints, and voice of customer end-users.
- This role will be required to work from the Berlin office at least 3 days per week.
What You'll Be Doing
- Be autonomous and collaborative, taking full ownership of design work and full responsibility for communication with teammates.
- Interface directly with cross-functional teams and customers to collect the insights and constraints that inform 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 the 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 the product area while synthesizing feedback from across the organization and iterating thoughtfully on proposed solutions.
What You'll Bring
6+ 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, with the ability 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, with demonstrated attention to detail.
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 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.
Compensation & Benefits
- 6 weeks of paid vacation.
- Work from (almost) anywhere for up to 20 days per year.
- Company-paid therapy sessions through SpringHealth.
- Company-paid subscription to HeadSpace.
- Company-wide week off a year where the whole team fully recharges.
- No meeting Fridays.
- Paid parental leave.
- Paid volunteer time.
- Development Dollars for career growth.
- 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, and sports teams.
- An office in Friedrichshain, Berlin.