Senior UX Designer - Holidu Hosts (all genders)

As a member of our Design team, you’ll collaborate with seven talented multidisciplinary designers, all dedicated to crafting intuitive, high-quality products and services for both guests and hosts. Curious about our work? Explore our design blog for a glimpse into our latest projects: https://holidu.design.

Holidu Hosts is our software and service solution for vacation rental owners (hosts). In this role, you will work closely with the Host Experience department, a highly international team consisting of 35 Developers, Product Managers, UX Designers, Technical Support Engineers and QA. Together with the team, you will focus on creating a best-in-class tool to help our hosts manage their properties effortlessly. 

• Shaping the design strategy for our core product, ensuring a seamless balance between short-term impact and long-term vision.
• Supporting multiple development teams, ensuring design excellence across parallel workstreams.
• Establishing and scaling UX research operations, ensuring our design decisions are data-driven and user-centered.
• Conducting and driving UX research to identify new product opportunities and ensure our design decisions are deeply rooted in user needs.
• Collaborating closely with product managers and developers to efficiently deliver cohesive, inclusive, and well-informed user experiences.
• Providing high-quality user interfaces and effectively communicating your thought process and methodology.
• Translating concepts into user flows, wireframes, mockups, and prototypes optimized for a wide range of devices and interfaces that lead intuitive user experiences, ranging from small feature iterations to larger, complex ones.
• Mentoring other designers and raising the bar for design quality, craft, and user-centric innovation.
• Actively participating in the growth of the Design Team by giving and receiving constructive feedback, improving work processes, and contributing to our design system.

• 4+ years of experience in UX design, product design, or a similar role, with a strong focus on consumer-facing digital products.
• Bachelor’s degree in design, human-computer interaction, a related field, or equivalent industry experience.
• Experience scaling and establishing design systems in growing organizations.
• Hands-on experience conducting and leading UX research efforts to inform product development.
• Strong leadership and mentoring abilities, with a passion for growing design talent and fostering a culture of excellence.
• A portfolio demonstrating expertise in designing and delivering digital products.
• Strong understanding and application of visual design principles.
• Proactive mindset, taking ownership of delivering exceptional designs.
• Experience with qualitative and quantitative data and profound analytical skills.
• Demonstrated empathy, curiosity, and eagerness to explore innovative ideas.
• Expert on design tools such as Figma or Sketch.
• Fluent in English, with proficiency in additional languages considered a plus.

• Impact: Make a difference for hundreds of thousands of monthly users.
• Growth: Take responsibility from day one and develop through regular feedback, workshops, and knowledge exchanges.
• Personal Development: Use your learning budget and 2 extra study days for conferences, books, courses, and more.
• Community: Engage with international, diverse, yet like-minded colleagues through regular events and 2 office days per week with your team.
• Flexibility: Benefit from our hybrid work policy and the chance to work from other local offices for up to 8 weeks a year.
• Fitness: Get a premium gym membership at a discounted rate.
• Travel: Enjoy 28 vacation days + 13 public holidays in Bavaria and the possibility to take up to 10 unpaid vacation days with special discounts on our Holidu Homes properties.