Lead Product Designer, Outdoorsy
Marketplace
$160-180k
+ Equity
More information about location
Online motorhome rental marketplace
Job no longer available
Online motorhome rental marketplace
201-500 employees
Job no longer available
$160-180k
+ Equity
More information about location
201-500 employees
Company mission
To unlock access to amazing new road trips, adventures, and experiences in the outdoors.
Role
Who you are
- You are passionate about designing products and consumer experiences two-sided marketplaces, outdoor travel or recreation
- You intuitively know (or will obsessively seek to understand) what our guests and hosts want in well-designed product experiences
- You have a history of winning and have designed great product experiences
- With a proven history of creating exceptional product experiences, you can find a way to translate ideas to deployments
- You are a leader who attracts top talent
- You are obsessed with something (we can't wait to find out what that is!), something you can't stop thinking about and you continually make progress in this area
- You have a track record of success in both startups and larger growth-focused tech companies
- This role demands creative ideation and rapid execution, requiring the ability to be dynamic and rigorous without being overly concerned about the process or outputs
- Minimum of 8 years experience in a senior individual contributor role, designing, building, and shipping high-quality mobile and web and mobile applications
- Experience designing for a two-sided Marketplace like Outdoorsy
- Great taste and a keen eye for interaction and visual design
- Experience working in a pillar/squad model: partnering with Product, Engineering, and Marketing to craft large-scale product outcomes
- Excellent communication in speaking and writing, an engaging presentation style, and strong visual storytelling. You have a strong understanding of the Human Centered Design process; how to lead it and teach others
- Entrepreneurial mindset with the ability to build strong data-driven arguments, prioritized with business strategy in mind
- Strong analytical skills with the ability to understand the constraints of a design problem and identify the tradeoffs
- Ability to balance long-term and short-term to meet the constraints of a continuous release process while iterating toward a future vision
- Experience contributing to design systems. We use Figma, Zeroheight, Github, and Storybook
- A strong portfolio across multiple devices and platforms that highlight your approach to problem-solving, as well as the solutions themselves. Case studies should demonstrate your proactive skills in research, user experience, visual design, and interaction design
- Proficiency with designing, prototyping, and development handoff in Figma
- Understanding of basic front-end languages. You know the constraints of developing for multiple devices and how to create a unified experience across them
- Design experience within a marketplace or online travel agencies is preferred with a mobile-first mentality
- Demonstrated portfolio of shipping amazing customer experiences that made a significant impact on business and customer metrics
- Experience building products in a remote or distributed team environment
What the job involves
- At Outdoorsy you will discover, pitch, and lead projects. our focus will be on transformation, using design as a tool to hone product strategy decisions and ensure Outdoorsy delivers coherent and compelling experiences across products
- Ideate, design, and deploy the future of Outdoory’s end-to-end customer experience
- Present and defend your vision and rationale behind all design decisions to stakeholders and your team, which are based on the pillar’s roadmap, as well as your own design thinking and fundamental principles
- Lead your own and/or participate in user research, gather insights, and translate findings into actionable design solutions
- Maintain exceptional execution and refinement, establishing a standard of design excellence for the team
- Express your ideas by delivering models, information architecture, flows, wireframes, low and high-fidelity mock-ups, and other design deliverables including clickable/animated prototypes
- Partner with our Growth Squad to use a variety of testing methods to gather qualitative and quantitative data, to identify common pain points, feature enhancements, or new products
- Make the unknowns known by leading grassroots research initiatives to inform design decisions
- Partner closely with Marketing (Brand and Creative) to ensure designs are on-brand and are in alignment with marketing objectives
- Engage with the content team early to help craft a successful go-to-market strategy
- Contribute to the success of other designers. Provide feedback and direction on their work while maintaining your own portfolio of work. Be hands-on and lead by example
- Drive innovation and design thinking, ensuring that all design initiatives are optimized for actionable outcomes
- Contribute to our Bonfire design systems to ensure brand consistency and scalability across products
- Stay abreast of emerging technologies and design trends, like how to deploy AI, and integrate innovative solutions into digital strategies
- Our lean, growth-minded, product teams work efficiently in an agile environment. They own their space and work together to strategize, ideate, and deliver excellent user experiences
- We need you to deeply contribute to this team, your team. Own the whiteboard, spend hours discussing and debating with PMs and Devs, and help bring your ideas and hunches to life
- Consider how our guests and hosts will interact with your ideas on our iOS or Android app, on mobile web, or on their desktop
Our take
Outdoorsy is an online portal providing RVs and camper vans for hire on a peer-to-peer basis. The platform is attempting to do to RVs what Airbnb did to hotels: revolutionize the market using the sharing economy. Outdoorsy estimates that around 97% of recreational vehicles remain idle during the year, so it provides owners with a way to make some additional income from them when they are not in use.
In addition to its RV rental and outdoor travel marketplace, Outdoorsy also operates in the insurtech space. Its "Roamly" business is designed to provide digital insurance products for RV owners and travellers, tackling the problem with insurer contracts excluding commercial use, which could deter listings on the Outdoorsy platform. Travellers then benefit from renting vehicles with insurance included, simplifying their rental experience.
As holidayers turn away from more rigid hotel options and towards outdoor alternatives, Outdoorsy has delivered over 200,000 trips to consumers. Serving a range of demographics and remaining well-reviewed, the company is in a good position to grow into the future, especially into Europe, as it capitalises on a stunning benchmark of $3 billion in sales, achieved in 2024.
Freddie
Company Specialist at Welcome to the Jungle
Insights
-12% employee growth in 12 months
Company
Company benefits
- Opportunity to help build company from early stage
- Competitive salary
- Equity in one of the world's fastest growing companies
- Comprehensive health and welfare benefits
- 401(k) Match
- Flexible PTO
- Annual RV rentals - we believe in balance and taking the time to nourish mind, body, and soul
Company HQ
East Cesar Chavez, Austin, TX
Leadership
Jeff Cavins
(Co-Founder)Having served as CEO of CSI Digital for over 7 years, they worked as SVP of North America and CEO of Loudeye for 6 years. They left their position as CEO of Fuze Box in November 2013 to found Outdoorsy in October 2014. Founded Roamly in 2020.
Jennifer Young
(Co-Founder & CMO)They spent over 4 years as an Account Director before working at RMG Connect and Managing Director of JWT. They co-founded Another Blank Page in 2013, leaving after a year to co-found Outdoorsy.
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