Staff Product Designer, KAYAK

• 10+ years in product design, with a portfolio of shipped, high-impact mobile work at consumer scale
• Deep native expertise across iOS and Android. Mastery of Apple HIG and Material Design, and the judgment to know when to converge and when to honor platform difference. Hands-on experience with resizability, foldables, and iPad, and a point of view on platform chrome directions like Liquid Glass and Material 3 Expressive
• A track record of raising design quality across a discipline beyond your own projects, through standards you set, critiques you ran, or systems others still use
• Experience driving design direction across multiple teams or product areas, with the ability to influence without authority
• Experience building or evolving mobile design systems and scalable patterns
• Strong with Figma, and fluent with AI-assisted design and prototyping tooling (for example Claude Code or Cursor)
• Comfort using data and research to set direction and measure outcomes

Desirable

• Own the design direction and the UX/UI pattern system across the apps surface. Navigation, mental models, and UI consistency cut across Apps Meta, Retention, and Design Systems at once, and you hold that cross-cutting direction so three teams ship one coherent experience rather than three versions of it
• Set the quality standard for apps design and hold it as a discipline, not a project. Make the bar visible where teams miss it, and close gaps across teams that you did not personally create. You are accountable for the quality and velocity of all apps design output
• Run planning and discovery for all three teams. Break multi-team, loosely defined problems into clear design direction the designers can run with
• Partner with the Director of Product for Apps and the apps PMs on core initiatives, influencing roadmap and prioritization through design rationale
• Lead native craft across iOS and Android. Set the approach for resizability, foldables, new screen sizes, and solve how KAYAK responds to platform chrome shifts like Liquid Glass and Material 3 Expressive
• Lead the design approach for mobile AI features: how we integrate AI into the apps, the UI, and the navigation around it, so it lands as a native part of the experience
• Drive the brand differentiation work for our portfolio of hero brands apps like momondo to ensure local market dominance
• Raise the ceiling for the other apps designers through critique, shared standards, and patterns they build on. Designers should get better by working alongside you and using what you establish, not only through direct mentorship