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Salary: GBP 112,000 - 140,000 / annual
Airbnb is seeking a Staff Experience Designer to shape how the platform shows up across EMEA, Latin America, and APAC markets. This is a senior individual contributor role reporting to a Manager or Director of Experience Design.
You will play a critical role in ensuring Airbnb's global products feel truly local—adapting core experiences to regional needs while feeding market insights back into broader product strategy. Sitting at the intersection of product, design, and regional strategy, you will work across time zones and functions to define and deliver an international roadmap spanning both tactical UI improvements and larger strategic bets.
Key responsibilities include:
- Support and shape the evolution of the Airbnb platform from a design perspective, ensuring consistency with brand and product architecture
- Partner with Product Managers, Engineers, Data Scientists, Researchers, and Writers to define problems, map user flows, prototype interactions, and launch new products and services
- Influence leadership decision-making through clear points of view and solve highly complex problems autonomously
- Provide indirect leadership and mentorship for designers through end-to-end interaction and visual design of products for a global audience
- Anticipate business challenges and independently create product solutions; act as the de facto creative director of innovative projects
- Build strong relationships with leaders inside and outside core product teams with strong communication and executive stakeholder management skills
- Understand technological, business, and user opportunities and constraints
- Scope project work in partnership with PMs and engineers, defining design process and timeline
You will bring a high bar for visual and interaction design craft, model AI-enabled ways of working, and provide senior design leadership in a space growing in complexity and impact for Airbnb globally.
Requirements:
- Bachelor's degree or equivalent combination of education and progressive experience
- 10+ years of experience as a Designer/Design Leader
- Excellent visual and interaction skills and craft
- Ability to define design direction and process and lead others through it
- Ability to accurately scope your work and teammates' work
- Demonstrated ability to motivate and drive small to medium teams to transform a product
- Demonstrated ability to help teams navigate ambiguity, set vision, and strategy for global products
- Systems-thinker with ability to think beyond pixels and design for offline experiences
- Experience making complex information, tools, and services easily digestible for audiences
- Strong storytelling, presentation, communication, and stakeholder management skills
- Experience designing platforms and systems
- Experience managing and collaborating with research and writing disciplines
- Experience with 0-to-1 product development or redesigning major elements of product, experience, or service design
