Lead Product Designer - Marketplace

July 27

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Experience the magic of the outdoors in the best RV rentals on the planet.⁣⁣

Recreational Vehicles • Travel • Outdoors

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Description

• Ideate, design, and deploy the future of Outdoorsy’s end-to-end customer experience. • Present and defend your vision and rationale behind all design decisions to stakeholders and your team, which are based on the pillar’s roadmap, as well as your own design thinking and fundamental principles. • Lead your own and/or participate in user research, gather insights, and translate findings into actionable design solutions • Maintain exceptional execution and refinement, establishing a standard of design excellence for the team. • Express your ideas by delivering models, information architecture, flows, wireframes, low and high-fidelity mock-ups, and other design deliverables including clickable/animated prototypes. • Partner with our Growth Squad to use a variety of testing methods to gather qualitative and quantitative data, to identify common pain points, feature enhancements, or new products. • Make the unknowns known by leading grassroots research initiatives to inform design decisions. • Partner closely with Marketing (Brand and Creative) to ensure designs are on-brand and are in alignment with marketing objectives. • Engage with the content team early to help craft a successful go-to-market strategy. • Contribute to the success of other designers. Provide feedback and direction on their work while maintaining your own portfolio of work. Be hands-on and lead by example. • Drive innovation and design thinking, ensuring that all design initiatives are optimized for actionable outcomes. • Contribute to our Bonfire design systems to ensure brand consistency and scalability across products. • Stay abreast of emerging technologies and design trends, like how to deploy AI, and integrate innovative solutions into digital strategies.

Requirements

• Minimum of 8 years experience in a senior individual contributor role, designing, building, and shipping high-quality mobile and web applications. • Experience designing for a two-sided Marketplace like Outdoorsy • Great taste and a keen eye for interaction and visual design • Experience working in a pillar/squad model: partnering with Product, Engineering, and Marketing to craft large-scale product outcomes • Excellent communication in speaking and writing, an engaging presentation style, and strong visual storytelling. You have a strong understanding of the Human Centered Design process; how to lead it and teach others. • Entrepreneurial mindset with the ability to build strong data-driven arguments, prioritized with business strategy in mind. • Strong analytical skills with the ability to understand the constraints of a design problem and identify the tradeoffs. • Ability to balance long-term and short-term to meet the constraints of a continuous release process while iterating toward a future vision. • Experience contributing to design systems. We use Figma, Zeroheight, Github, and Storybook • A strong portfolio across multiple devices and platforms that highlight your approach to problem-solving, as well as the solutions themselves. Case studies should demonstrate your proactive skills in research, user experience, visual design, and interaction design. • Proficiency with designing, prototyping, and development handoff in Figma • Understanding of basic front-end languages. You know the constraints of developing for multiple devices and how to create a unified experience across them. • Design experience within a marketplace or online travel agencies is preferred with a mobile-first mentality. • Demonstrated portfolio of shipping amazing customer experiences that made a significant impact on business and customer metrics. • Experience building products in a remote or distributed team environment.

Benefits

• Opportunity to help build a company from an early stage • Competitive salary • Equity in one of the world's fastest-growing companies • Comprehensive health and welfare benefits • 401(k) Match • Flexible PTO