Senior Product Designer, Hostaway
+ Equity
Vacation rental software for property managers
Open for applications
Vacation rental software for property managers
201-500 employees
Open for applications
+ Equity
201-500 employees
Company mission
To partner with property managers in the growth of their business by providing solutions to achieve their goals.
Role
Who you are
- 5+ years in a product design role, ideally in a B2B SaaS environment
- Fluent in AI tooling; from leveraging AI tools for customer discovery and problem definition to AI-assisted prototyping (and eventually implementation) ensuring a design process that leverages AI insights and accelerates innovation
- Strong research, storytelling, mapping, and blueprinting skills, with deep empathy for our clients. You know what drives them, what they expect, and how to design in ways that improve their workflows and efficiency
- Strong visual and interface skills, with proven experience designing complex functional interfaces where clarity, hierarchy, and usability matter as much as craft
- A strong bias towards action; managing multiple projects simultaneously with strong self-prioritisation skills
- Highly proficient in Figma and its functionalities, especially auto-layout
- Experience working in agile environments
- Vibe-coding experience is a plus
What the job involves
- As a Senior Product Designer you own projects end to end, from discovery through delivery and into the data once something is live. You stay close to customers on a regular basis, frame the opportunities worth solving, and pressure test your thinking with evidence rather than opinion
- You use AI as a genuine part of how you work, to synthesise research, explore more directions faster, and build functional prototypes you can put in front of real users, not just static screens. The mindset is that your output should be functional, desirable and created with a high level of craft that we will iterate and improve on
- You will play a key role in shaping what the team delivers and how we deliver it, holding quality and consistency across our product. You build real empathy with our users, understand how they actually work, and turn insight from many sources into a clear story about what to build and why
- Success here means combining deep user understanding with a strong bias to action. You solve real problems, you craft interfaces people love to use, and you ship at pace without losing rigour
- Lead projects from discovery to delivery: Stay in regular contact with customers, map opportunities, and carry work all the way through to delivery and post launch analysis
- Work AI-first: Use AI tools across research synthesis, ideation, writing, and prototyping to explore more, decide faster, and free up your time for the hard design problems
- Build and ship fast: Go beyond static screens to build interactive, working prototypes, put them in front of real users early, and iterate. Speed of learning is how we win
- Uncover user needs: Combine qualitative and quantitative evidence to guide your decisions and know when a direction is not supported
- Drive alignment and trade-offs: Facilitate workshops, focus the team, move decisions forward, and develop solutions that work for the business, the user, and engineering
- Think system-wide: Contribute to and maintain our design system, and consider the broader product ecosystem in everything you ship
- Collaborate with cross-functional teams, including product managers, engineers, and customer success, to identify user needs and deliver impactful design solutions
Our take
Hostaway is an all-in-one vacation rental software solution designed to help property owners streamline and grow their businesses. Hostaway’s product provides property owners a way to present their services to the wider market, making them available on different platforms through the use of its multi-integration software.
What makes Hostaway unique is its comprehensive property management ecosystem. Beyond just listings, the platform allows clients to manage their properties across a wide range of platforms, including Airbnb, Booking.com, and HomeAway. It also integrates with other key services like Stripe, Expedia, and Tripadvisor, offering customisable solutions that support the diverse needs of vacation rental hosts.
It also had impressive growth over the past five years, with revenue doubling to tripling each year. Alongside this, it raised substantial funding in 2024 to fuel its expansion across Europe and accelerate product development. This, in turn, resulted in Hostaway becoming the first Unicorn in the STR PMS sector. With its strong track record and clear vision for the future, Hostaway has a clear road ahead.
Freddie
Company Specialist at Welcome to the Jungle
Insights
84% employee growth in 12 months
Company
Funding (last 2 of 6 rounds)
Dec 2024
$397.7m
GROWTH EQUITY VC
May 2023
$175m
GROWTH EQUITY VC
Total funding: $575.5m
Company benefits
- Company stock options provided to every role
- Career advancement opportunities
- Dynamic international culture
Company HQ
Kamppi, Helsinki, Uusimaa
Leadership
Marcus Räder
(Co-Founder & CEO)They have previously served as Product Manager and then Advertising Operations Manager at Kiosked, before moving to be Product Manager at Yousician.
Saber Kordestanchi
(Co-Founder & CSO)They co-founded OrumITC before moving to serve as a Software Engineer at booncon and then Kiosked. They were CTO and COO at Hostaway before becoming CSO.
Ken Weary
(COO)An accomplished international SaaS Executive and Operations Leader specializing in scaling B2B companies to new heights. They joined Hostaway in 2024 as COO.
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