Staff Experience Designer – International

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Staff Experience Designer shaping Airbnb’s localized products for APAC and global markets. Defining international design strategy, leading product experiences, and mentoring designers across functions.

Responsibilities:

  • Lead the design of multiple international initiatives by defining design strategy, objectives, holistic user-experience vision, and detailed design execution
  • Shape the Airbnb platform through international lenses, ensuring consistency with and contributing to brand and product architecture
  • Partner with Country Managers, Product Managers, Engineers, Data Scientists, Researchers, Localization Managers, and Writers to define problems and goals, map user flows, prototype interactions, and launch products and services
  • Influence global leadership and stakeholder decisions through clear points of view and vivid storytelling
  • Help teams navigate ambiguity and define and solve complex problems for global audiences
  • Scope projects with DPMs, PMs, and engineers and help define design processes, task allocation, and timelines
  • Provide indirect leadership and mentorship to peer designers through interaction and visual design critiques
  • Evangelize design thinking and best practices across functions
  • Report to a Manager or Director of Experience Design as an individual contributor

Requirements:

  • 10+ years of experience as a designer or design leader
  • Ability to independently formulate design directions and processes while leading and mentoring teams through execution
  • Strategic thought leadership for guiding teams through ambiguity, establishing visions, and driving global product design strategies
  • Systems-oriented approach to comprehensive online and offline user experiences
  • Exceptional interaction and visual design craftsmanship
  • Strong analytical acumen and deep empathy; ability to synthesize user insights into optimal solutions and actionable design milestones
  • Excellent storytelling, presentation, and communication skills
  • Strong stakeholder management abilities
  • Experience in end-to-end product development from conception to launch or redesigning major product elements
  • Experience applying and evolving mature design systems
  • Comprehensive understanding of technology capabilities, business objectives, user needs, opportunities, and constraints