Product Designer, KAYAK
Android
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
- Deep knowledge of Android design patterns, guidelines, and interaction models
- Proven experience designing at consumer-focused product companies delivering outstanding user experiences
- The ability to drive, and ship features inside an ever-growing and experimenting company
- Excellent communication skills, together with analytical thinking and problem-solving capability. Able to break down and simplify sophisticated problems and be confident at presenting to a mixed audience of different levels in the organization
- An appreciation of the entire product development process, from problem solving through to detailed interaction and visual design
- A user–focused design mentality. Experienced in acquiring user feedback, whether its, conducting usability studies, performing user research, or crafting options for experimentation
- Experienced working in a dynamic design process where we let quantitative and qualitative customer data guide our designs
- Strong time management skills and the ability to be self-directed and prioritize. Demonstrate an attention to detail about your work that your teammates can rely on
- A positive demeanor toward your work, including curiosity to learn and a willingness to adapt as new and different challenges constantly emerge
- Strong understanding of accessibility standards and inclusive design practices for mobile platforms, including experience designing for screen readers, color contrast, and adaptable text sizes
What the job involves
- We are looking for an expert designer to be a strategic contributor and lead projects for our mobile web and native app platforms! You must have a developed aesthetic taste that is distinctive and admired. You love details and pixel-perfection.
- You will concept, design and ship applications that millions of people use in order to find and book their travel. You will be working with a diverse team of Product Managers, Engineers and Designers to build, deliver, and test digital travel products
- Understand customer needs in our markets around the world and shape our experiences to meet those needs
- Take into account existing insights, technical constraints, platform guidelines, and business needs to craft high-quality, user-centered app designs
- Be autonomous. Take full ownership of your work and full responsibility for every last detail. Own the success or failure of your design work
- Rapidly produce multiple concepts and prototypes for A/B experiments, using data and user insights to determine when to deepen exploration or pivot toward more effective solutions that drive user and business impact
- ‘Systems Thinking' of how to approach scalable design and each of the areas it impacts, both now and in the potential future
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
Company Specialist at Welcome to the Jungle
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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