Senior User Experience Designer

Job Description

Expedia Group brands power global travel for everyone, everywhere. We design cutting-edge tech to make travel smoother and more memorable, and we create groundbreaking solutions for our partners. Our diverse, vibrant, and welcoming community is essential in driving our success.

Why Join Us?To shape the future of travel, people must come first. Guided by our Values and Leadership Agreements, we foster an open culture where everyone belongs, differences are celebrated and know that when one of us wins, we all win. We provide a full benefits package, including exciting travel perks, generous time-off, parental leave, a flexible work model (with some pretty cool offices), and career development resources, all to fuel our employees’ passion for travel and ensure a rewarding career journey.

We’re building a more open world. Join us.

Senior User Experience Designer:We help Travelers go places with relevant media products that solve Traveler problems. We follow the natural form and function of the site, making the ads feel like a natural part of the experience, while enabling Partners to achieve their advertising objectives through proven tactics that deliver measurable results. Our suite of products, tools, and analytics aim to help our Partners inspire, engage, and convert Travelers worldwide.

In This Role, You Will:Lead collaborative efforts to define and frame complex product concepts or needs with peer roles and generate multiple potential compelling solutions to advance the product direction. Negotiate for the Experience Design (XD) team’s priorities considering both long-term strategy and direction and contributes to building experience roadmaps for team. Contribute to the development of both business metrics and experience success metrics, promoting harmony and alignment between them.

Actively collaborate with PMs to implement highest value improvement opportunities ascertained from customer and market insights that help users connect more effectively with products. Analyze and synthesize complex research and test findings to identify novel insights, considering multiple sources of information before drawing conclusions.

Appropriately weigh research and test findings against other data points (e. g. , technical, business) to make informed design decisions and determine the right solution.

Design user interactions that optimize user engagement, product performance, and business impact. Find and implement creative solutions that enhance accessibility and inclusivity to address diverse user needs. Use awareness of visual, interaction, and UI design trends to create innovative design concepts and narratives, adapting the design process as-necessary to accomplish goals.

Define simple, elegant, trustworthy experiences and hold the team accountable to a high quality bar. Collaborate strategically with developers to ensure seamless implementation and understand the nuance between hard tech-constraints and opportunities to challenge conventions. Demonstrate expertise in utilizing latest design tools, technologies, and best-practices.

Contribute reusable and scalable components to the design system, including inventing new components, and drives consistency in brand experience across all touchpoints. Comprehensively evaluate the system of connections and the library of tools and methodologies available to arrive at the optimal solution. Convincingly communicate narratives through storytelling, lead cross-functionalcollaboration, and influence decision-making and senior stakeholders.

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