Senior Product Designer - Private Dining

About OpenTable:

With millions of diners, 70,000+ restaurant partners and 25+ years of experience, OpenTable, part of Booking Holdings, Inc. (NASDAQ: BKNG), is an industry leader with a passion for helping restaurants thrive. Our world-class technology empowers restaurants to focus on what matters most – their team, their guests, and their bottom line – while enabling diners to discover and book the perfect restaurant for every occasion.

Every employee at OpenTable has a tangible impact on what we do and how we do it. You’ll also be part of a global team and its portfolio of metasearch brands. Hospitality is all about taking care of others, and it defines our culture. 

The opportunity:

You’ll be joining the growing Private Dining Team in Australia and help elevate OpenTable’s newest line of business.  The team is building the next generation event management for our top restaurant groups. We're deeply involved from concept, prototyping, implementation, delivery, to customer validation. We believe in empowering individuals to do phenomenal work. 

As a Senior Product Designer on Private Dining, you’ll get to: 

• Lead initiatives that give restaurateurs new and meaningful ways to efficiently manage their private dining operations
• Have direct impact on consumer facing experiences for our private dining offerings in the OpenTable app 
• Become an expert in restaurant operator workflows by facilitating research with restaurant owners and staff.
• Use systems thinking to scale solutions across our platform.
• Work closely with a smart and collaborative team of product designers, product managers, and engineers to deliver experiences that help restaurants provide the best hospitality for their guests.

How we design for restaurants

Your skills and experience:

You enjoy solving complex design challenges and have strong visual and interaction design skills. You have an exceptional portfolio that showcases a breadth of product design work. You also have:

• Strong at designing and solving for complex or B2B2C workflows.
• The ability to negotiate, prioritize, and break down design work into measurable outcomes.
• Strong systems thinking and able to design for multiple platforms (web and mobile).
• High level of confidence and pragmatism about the design direction.
• Strong at leading and facilitating workshops with cross-functional partners.
• Strong product and business thinking.
• Great written and verbal communication skills.
• Led user interviews and testing of designs.
• Experience working closely with product and engineering in an agile environment.
• At least 5 years of product design experience.\
• Fluency in AI tools such as Cursor, Figma Make or Claude.
• Expertise in Figma and other prototyping tools.

If you think you are qualified for this role but don’t tick every box, please apply for the role. The perfect candidate doesn’t exist. 

When applying, please include a resume (including a password to your portfolio) and a PDF or link to an online portfolio. Here’s our guide for how to nail design portfolios and presentations.

Benefits and Perks: 

• Work from (almost) anywhere for up to 20 days per year
• Focus on mental health and well-being:
  • Company-paid therapy sessions through SpringHealth
  • Company-paid subscription to Headspace
  • Annual company-wide week off a year - the whole team fully recharges (and returns without a pile-up of work!)
• Paid parental leave
• Generous paid vacation + time off for your birthday
• Paid volunteer time
• Focus on your career growth:
  • Development Dollars
  • Leadership development
  • Access to thousands of on-demand e-learnings
• Travel Discounts
• Employee Resource Groups
• Annual health and wellness reimbursement
• Monthly social events
• Free lunch 2 days per week

Work Environment & Flexibility

At OpenTable, we pride ourselves on fostering a global and dynamic work environment. As a team member with us, you will benefit from a schedule tailored to accommodate a global workforce operating across multiple time zones. While the majority of your responsibilities may align with conventional business hours, there will be instances where you are expected to manage communications - via calls, Slack messages, or emails - outside of regular working hours to effectively collaborate with international colleagues, respond to restaurant partners, and/or address urgent matters. OpenTable will always abide by and consider local laws and regulations.

Inclusion

We’re committed to creating a workplace where everyone feels they belong and can thrive. We know the best ideas come when we bring different voices to the table, so we're building a team as dynamic as the diners and restaurants we serve—and fostering a culture where everyone feels welcome to be themselves.

If you need accommodations during the application or interview process, or on the job, we’re here to support you. Please reach out to your recruiter to request any accommodations.

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