Senior Mobile Designer, KAYAK
Design Systems
Travel search engine
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Travel search engine
1001+ employees
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1001+ employees
Company mission
To help millions of travelers around the globe make confident travel decisions.
Role
Who you are
- 5 years of proven experience in product design, with at least 2 years building or maintaining a mobile design system for a consumer app at scale
- Strong expertise in designing across mobile, with a deep knowledge of Apple HIG and Material Design. You know when to keep things consistent and when to embrace platform differences
- Deep experience with Figma, including building and maintaining robust component libraries, design tokens, and documentation
- A solid understanding of mobile accessibility requirements and animation/motion standard methodologies (experience with tools like Lottie or Rive is a plus)
- Experience collaborating with cross-functional partners in product, engineering, and marketing
- A proven track record of mentoring or leading design communities, guilds, or teams focused on mobile
- A proactive, meticulous approach and a strong sense of ownership over your work
What the job involves
- KAYAK is seeking a Design Systems Designer with a focus on mobile to join our global Product Design team! This role will be a key force behind building and scaling a world-class design system for our iOS and Android apps.
- You will collaborate across multiple teams, drive adoption of our design system, and help mentor a growing community of mobile designers. You’ll play a key role connecting our global design, product, and marketing teams, collaborating to build seamless experiences across every user journey
- You’ll work with a hardworking group of designers, engineers, and marketers to ensure that every KAYAK app is visually stunning, easy to use, and delivers a consistent, high-quality experience from first touch to loyal user
- Lead the design for KAYAK’s apps on iOS and Android, through evolution of scalable mobile UI components, patterns, and guidelines
- Ensure a consistent design across all user touch points, while also leaning into and embracing platform differences
- Champion mobile UX quality, accessibility, and visual polish across platforms, setting the standard for all KAYAK app experiences
- Manage and coordinate the Mobile Team, bringing together designers from various product teams to align on mobile quality standards, and design rituals
- Work closely with Marketing and Product teams, especially our App Acquisition team, to ensure an integrated and consistent experience from ad to in-app onboarding
- Partner with product pods and embedded designers in our agile teams, ensuring that the design system patterns are adopted and improved through feedback
- Own documentation and Figma library management as well as lead training and onboarding sessions to help the entire team move faster and smarter
- Keep KAYAK at the forefront of mobile design trends, platform updates, and tooling by continuously researching, sharing, and integrating new ideas
Our take
KAYAK is a travel agency and metasearch engine owned and operated by Booking Holdings. KAYAK processes over 6 billion queries across its platforms each year for travel information - as one of the world’s leading travel search engines, KAYAK searches other sites to show travellers the information they need to find the right flights, hotels, rental cars and vacation packages. It offers a variety of tools and features such as KAYAK trips, explore, and price forecast.
There’s been speculation over the years about online travel companies getting into the hotel business and KAYAK is no exception. The company is expanding its hospitality offerings beyond its traditional hotel referral and booking services but despite speculation through the 2020s, has stopped short of opening hotels under its own brand, preferring to partner with preexisting companies on their hotel tech.
Since being acquired by Booking Holdings, the global leader in online travel, in 2013, KAYAK has continued to expand and innovate, enhancing the travel experience for users all around the world. And now KAYAK manages a portfolio of metasearch brands including SWOODOO, checkfelix, momondo, Cheapflights, Mundi and HotelsCombined. With the aim to make it easier for everyone to experience the world - it now operates sites in more than 70 countries and territories.
Steph
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Insights
6% employee growth in 12 months
Company
Company benefits
- Work flexibly: Our global flexible work policy lets our teams decide if they head into one of our offices or work from anywhere else
- Team-wide time off: Most of our team disconnects at the same time each year to recharge and reconnect
- Global volunteer week: Take VTO (Volunteer Time Off) to support the organizations and charitable efforts you believe in
- Wellness: We take care of each other - providing opportunities and spaces to live that work-life balance
- Resource groups: Our five ERGs are employee-led groups for underrepresented communities and their allies
- Career growth: We provide opportunities for our team to develop their skills – or learn new ones – on their own terms
Company HQ
South End, Stamford, CT
Leadership
Steve Hafner
(Co-Founder & CEO)Previously Board Member of Trulia, Blade and SeatGeek and currently an Executive at OpenTable.
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