Senior Designer

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  • Manchester  
    Greater Manchester, United Kingdom
    perm  
  • Company
    Booking.com  
    Start date
    ASAP  
    Duration
    n/a  
    Wage
    Undisclosed
  • Closing date
    4 June 2022  
    Posted on
    4 April 2022  

About the company:

It wasn’t so long ago that booking a trip to see the Eiffel Tower, stroll down New York’s iconic Madison Avenue or feel the sand between our toes on Copacabana Beach was simply a matter of a few taps on our smartphone.

We make it easier for everyone to experience the world. And while that world might feel a little farther away right now, we’re busy preparing for when the world is ready to travel once more.

Across our offices worldwide, we continue to innovate. To solve some of the most complex challenges in travel and technology, and to plan for the exciting developments that lie ahead. With strategic long-term investments into what we believe the future of travel can be, we are opening up new career opportunities that will have a strong impact on our mission.

We are united in the belief that our very human desire to explore the planet’s beauty and discover more about other people and cultures will endure. The world is waiting for us. Together, we will be ready.

Our core values:

  • Think customer first.
  • Succeed together.
  • Own It.
  • Learn Forever.
  • Do the Right Thing.

The Area:

In the Rides group, we craft the ground transportation experience for us. The senior design role in Rides, Taxi will focus on defining and growing our Taxi products for our customers across Web and App.

  • Great eye for detail and applying this to their designs and prototypes.
  • Autonomous and highly organized, with experience overseeing multiple tracks of work.
  • A strong communicator who has great collaboration skills with other designers and disciplines.
  • Strong stakeholder management in and outside of your immediate teams, and the wider design community.
  • Confident with running design research and presenting this back to a variety of stakeholders.
  • Experience in coaching and mentoring other designers.
  • Experience with App design is desirable but not necessary.

The Role:

Senior Designers are experienced designers with craft expertise and an exceptional understanding of their subject areas. They work directly within a team and indirectly across a small number of teams within their subject area to define and execute the design details that drive business value. 

Key Responsibilities:

  • Demonstrates advanced knowledge of user flows, product features, and underlying technologies across teams and tracks - demonstrates a working understanding of the larger user and business context of their product area.
  • Demonstrates advanced understanding and application of user-centered design concepts, methods, tools, and techniques to enable and advance quality design and outcomes.
  • Creates high-quality well-researched and data-informed design assets and solutions.
  • Responsible for overall product design quality in their area - proactively identifies, and fixes critical issues and bugs across track teams.
  • Completes complex objectives autonomously, involving everyone necessary; proactively generates new product ideas, as well as devises tests and/or processes to evaluate alternatives and recommend solutions.
  • Proactively helps others to develop, champion, and refine ideas or initiatives that solve business and/or user needs both inside and outside of their area of direct responsibility.
  • Demonstrates advanced understanding of Booking's brand, design, and accessibility standards and systems and ensures they are adhered to in their area of business.
  • Proactively partner with their peers, leads, or others in the tech and product organizations to drive and execute on a broader level strategy to improve the product and the community around them.
  • Advances team and design community understanding of user-centered design concepts, methods, and techniques; facilitates team ideation sessions, solution discovery, and brainstorming relevant for design topics.
  • Volunteers to work on projects to solve business and/or user needs outside of their area of direct responsibility (e.g. could be issued other designers aren’t willing to tackle or don’t find interesting).

Knowledge and skills:

  • 5 - 8 years of relevant experience designing for digital products/native mobile apps.
  • Strong interpersonal skills.
  • Strong work ethic; self-directed and resourceful.
  • Solution-oriented and result-driven.
  • Proactive, flexible, and capable of working independently as well as working in a team.
  • Good communication and analytical skills.
  • Ability to multi-task & a flexible attitude.
  • Has advanced knowledge of prototyping tools or prototyping environments and web coding languages such as HTML, CSS, etc.
  • Has advanced knowledge of native app interface engines, and creates appropriate interfaces using core design tools, like Figma, Sketch, Invision, or Adobe Creative Cloud.
  • Demonstrates advanced knowledge of the principles, concepts, and theories of product design and related areas including copywriting and research.
  • A portfolio that demonstrates previous design experience, breadth and depth of design skills, and a case study or two that illustrates challenges, methods, roles, and outcomes.
  • Bachelor’s or Master’s degree is a plus.
  • Language: English.

Benefits:

  • 25 vacation days (rising to 28) to go exploring.
  • Generous accommodation discount, so you can explore for less.
  • Bonus package.
  • Pension with up to 10% matched company contribution.
  • Free breakfast and subsidized staff restaurant with Starbucks coffee.
  • Huge learning and development platform tailored to you.
  • Shopping and leisure discounts through Perkbox.
  • Interest-free travel loans/discounted car parking.
  • Competitive maternity/paternity/adoption leave.
  • Flexible working, including working from home.
  • Wellbeing focus, with weekly onsite yoga.
  • Mental health first aiders and free face-to-face support.

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