Staff Product Designer, Discovery

This position is listed on behalf of a partner company, which manages all applications and next steps. Our partner is looking for a Staff Product Designer, Discovery based in the United States.

We are seeking an experienced Staff Product Designer to lead product design for innovative discovery experiences that help hospitality operators reach more travelers and grow their businesses. In this senior individual contributor role, you will partner closely with product and engineering teams to define product direction, solve complex problems, and deliver intuitive, high-quality digital experiences. You will transform complex datasets and uncertain information into clear, trustworthy interfaces that empower users to make informed decisions. You will also shape how operators interact with AI-powered tools, simplifying sophisticated workflows into seamless and actionable experiences. As the team's sole designer, you will have significant autonomy, influence strategic decisions, and help prioritize initiatives based on customer insights and business impact. This is an opportunity to make a meaningful contribution in a fast-paced, technology-driven environment where experimentation, ownership, and exceptional design quality are central to success.

Accountabilities:

Product Design Leadership: Own the end-to-end design process for discovery-focused products, from identifying customer problems and defining opportunities to developing concepts, validating solutions, and delivering polished experiences.
Product Strategy and Direction: Partner with product managers and engineering leaders to establish design priorities, shape product roadmaps, challenge assumptions, and make informed decisions about which initiatives deliver the greatest customer and business value.
Complex Data Visualization: Translate large, complex, or ambiguous datasets into intuitive dashboards, meaningful metrics, and clear visualizations that help hospitality operators understand performance and take effective action.
AI-Powered Experience Design: Design intuitive workflows that enable users to collaborate effectively with AI-powered systems. Make advanced capabilities accessible, understandable, and trustworthy while reducing complexity and friction.
Customer-Centered Problem Solving: Advocate for customer needs throughout the product development lifecycle. Use customer research, behavioral insights, and product evidence to identify pain points, validate assumptions, and guide design decisions.
Cross-Functional Collaboration: Work closely with product and engineering teams to align design solutions with technical feasibility, business objectives, and user expectations. Represent the design perspective in strategic discussions and decision-making.
End-to-End Design Execution: Create user flows, wireframes, prototypes, interaction models, and production-ready interfaces. Collaborate with engineers to ensure that the final implementation reflects the intended experience and quality standards.
Design System Stewardship: Maintain and evolve the design system to support consistency, usability, and scalability while allowing room for innovation and new product requirements.
Prioritization and Decision-Making: Evaluate competing product opportunities, balance customer needs against business constraints, and recommend where to invest design and engineering resources for maximum impact.
Rapid Prototyping and Experimentation: Use Figma, AI-assisted tools, code, and platforms such as Vercel to test concepts, explore alternatives, and accelerate the transition from ideas to working prototypes.
Design Quality and Craftsmanship: Maintain high standards for usability, visual consistency, interaction design, and attention to detail. Identify and eliminate unnecessary complexity to ensure that every shipped feature delivers a clear purpose.
Team Influence and Continuous Improvement: Raise the quality of product decisions through thoughtful critique, clear communication, and collaborative problem-solving. Establish effective design practices that help the broader team work more efficiently and deliver better outcomes.
Requirements:
Professional Experience: Extensive experience in product design, UX design, or a related discipline, with a track record of leading complex product initiatives and delivering successful digital experiences. Staff-level experience or equivalent demonstrated leadership and ownership is highly desirable.
Product Strategy and Leadership: Ability to independently establish design direction, influence product strategy, challenge assumptions constructively, and make sound decisions in cross-functional environments.
End-to-End Product Design: Demonstrated experience taking digital products from early discovery and problem definition through prototyping, testing, implementation, and launch.
Data Visualization Expertise: Strong ability to simplify complex information, design intuitive dashboards, communicate metrics effectively, and create interfaces that help users interpret data and make confident decisions.
AI-Driven Product Design: Familiarity with AI-powered products, intelligent workflows, or emerging AI technologies, with the ability to design experiences that make complex capabilities understandable and useful.
Exceptional Design Craft: Strong skills in interaction design, information architecture, visual design, prototyping, and usability. A keen eye for detail and the ability to balance functional clarity with polished execution are essential.
Design Systems Knowledge: Experience working with established design systems and evolving components, patterns, and guidelines to support consistency without limiting innovation.
Prototyping and Technical Fluency: Proficiency with Figma and comfort experimenting with code, AI-assisted development tools, and platforms such as Vercel to test ideas and bring concepts to life quickly.
Customer and Business Acumen: Ability to connect customer needs, product performance, technical considerations, and business objectives when prioritizing features and evaluating design solutions.
Ownership and Autonomy: A proactive, highly reliable working style, with the ability to operate independently, anticipate challenges, identify gaps, and move initiatives forward without extensive supervision.
Communication and Collaboration: Strong communication skills and the ability to explain design decisions, incorporate feedback, build consensus, and work effectively with product managers and engineers.
Adaptability and Judgment: Comfort navigating ambiguity, managing competing priorities, and making thoughtful trade-offs in a fast-moving environment where requirements and opportunities evolve quickly.
Growth and Discovery Mindset: Curiosity about AI-powered search, travel technology, and digital discovery. Experience in SEO, marketing technology, growth products, or related fields is an advantage but not required.
Portfolio: A portfolio demonstrating shipped product work is required, showcasing strong product judgment, complex problem-solving, end-to-end ownership, and exceptional design execution.
Benefits:
Remote Work Flexibility: Fully remote position available to candidates based in the United States.
High Ownership and Autonomy: Significant influence over product direction, design priorities, and the overall quality of customer-facing experiences.
Strategic Impact: The opportunity to shape discovery products that help hospitality operators expand their reach, attract travelers, and grow their businesses.
AI and Emerging Technology Exposure: Opportunities to experiment with AI-powered experiences, rapid prototyping, code-assisted design, and modern development tools.
Close Collaboration with Senior Teams: Work directly with experienced product and engineering professionals in a small, highly autonomous team.
Creative Freedom: An environment that encourages experimentation, fresh perspectives, thoughtful challenges, and innovative problem-solving.
Professional Growth: Opportunities to strengthen strategic leadership, product thinking, technical fluency, and expertise in AI-driven product experiences.
Meaningful Product Ownership: Direct responsibility for transforming complex customer problems into clear, useful, and high-quality digital solutions.
Quality-Driven Culture: A workplace that values exceptional craftsmanship, strong product judgment, continuous improvement, and simplicity in design.