Senior Product Designer, Wander
Luxury vacation rental & vacation homes
Open for applications
Luxury vacation rental & vacation homes
201-500 employees
Open for applications
201-500 employees
Company mission
To help people find their happy place and build the infrastructure to experience the world.
Role
Who you are
- Proven experience (5+ years) designing for consumer-facing web or mobile products, ideally in fast-paced environments
- Strong product sense, you understand user needs, can simplify complex problems, and design intuitive mental models and flows
- Pixel-perfect execution with mastery of Figma and a keen eye for typography, layout, and motion
- Collaboration mindset, you thrive working cross-functionally and are receptive to feedback
- Versatility, you can shift from high-level product thinking to fine-grained UI details without losing momentum
- Balance of craft and pragmatism, you know when to perfect, when to iterate, and when to ship
- Clear communication skills, you can tell stories with visuals and words to align teams
Desirable
- Experience with AI-powered products or complex consumer applications
- You’ve designed for travel, hospitality, marketplaces, or other high-frequency consumer experiences
- Familiarity with motion design tools (e.g., Principle, After Effects, Lottie)
- Ability to code prototypes in HTML/CSS/JS (or React) for more interactive exploration
- Familiarity with AI tools for prototyping like v0, Cursor, etc
What the job involves
- As a Senior Product Designer at Wander, you’ll shape the look, feel, and flow of our consumer products—turning ideas into elegant, intuitive, and high-impact experiences.
- You’ll work from the earliest concept through to final pixel-perfect execution, collaborating closely with product managers, engineers, and other designers to make our AI-powered travel experiences not just functional, but delightful
- We’re looking for a designer who thrives at the intersection of craft and product thinking—someone who can translate complex ideas into interfaces that feel delightful and usable for millions of travelers
- Design product concepts that balance vision, craft, speed, and business impact
- Own features end-to-end—from early sketches and prototypes to production-ready designs
- Partner with Product and Engineering to bring your vision to life with polish and precision
- Use customer insights and product data to guide priorities, improve usability, and refine interactions
- Contribute to and evolve Wander’s design system, ensuring visual and functional consistency across platforms
- Explore new patterns and interaction models for AI-driven travel experiences
- Collaborate with Marketing to ensure our story is consistently told across every user touchpoint
Our take
While AirBnB disrupted the hotel and hospitality industries, the novelty has worn off. Surprise fees, sub-par cleaning, uncomfortable beds and unreliable photos are just some of the factors which have taken the shine off the sharing economy model. Built as a response to these issues, Wander aims to return the luxury to the vacation and short stay sector.
Wander provides a tech-first approach to letting short stays that might be familiar to anyone using AirBnB or another competitor, but the comparisons stop there. Wander directly owns and controls the properties on its portfolio, allowing it to ensure a high standard of quality and excellent customer service for its guests.
After raising an impressive amount of capital, Wander has secured a significant credit facility from Credit Suisse. It will use this to increase its property portfolio across the United States with an aim to put a property within 3 hours drive of 80% of the population. It is also rolling out a facility to allow guests to purchase part ownership of the homes they stay in, allowing them to diversify their own financial portfolios. With this approach, Wander is in a strong position to capture a large segment of the luxury market.
Kirsty
Company Specialist at Welcome to the Jungle
Insights
29% employee growth in 12 months
Company
Funding (last 2 of 4 rounds)
May 2025
$50m
SERIES B
Jun 2022
$5m
EARLY VC
Total funding: $82m
Company HQ
Civic District, Austin, TX
Leadership
John Andrew Entwistle
(Founder & CEO)Previously Co-Founder & CEO of Coder. Before that was Fellow at The Thiel Foundation.
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