The Role

• Design and refine key surfaces impacting conversion and streamline booking and post-booking flows.
• Run usability and growth experiments to improve guest and host experience.
• Partner with engineering and staff designer to expand the design system and improve consistency.
• Collaborate with Director of Design to produce polished, production-ready designs.
• Explore AI tools and Figma plug-ins to accelerate ideation and prototyping.

Responsibilities

• Design high-quality scalable solutions in Figma prioritizing component hygiene, auto-layout, and clarity.
• Use animation and transitions to guide user interactions and understanding.
• Maintain and evolve the design system components, documentation, and accessibility standards.
• Prototype and test ideas with the research team from concept to interactive flows.
• Maintain a Figma prototype library of main pages and key states.
• Collaborate across product, research, and engineering to deliver shipped experiences.
• Communicate design decisions clearly with rationale based on user insights and business goals.
• Contribute to critiques and share work regularly within the design team.

Qualifications

• Two to five+ years designing consumer or marketplace products; experience in double-sided marketplaces or travel is a plus.
• Fluent and organized in Figma including auto-layout, components, variants, and complex prototyping.
• Experience with UI motion tools such as Framer, Principle, ProtoPie, or After Effects.
• Experience designing for desktop web, mobile web, and native apps (iOS and Android).
• Comfortable designing with user research as part of the process.
• Curious about AI in design for exploration, content generation, or prototyping speed.
• Experienced in maintaining a design system.
• Excellent communication skills with ability to present and advocate design decisions.
• Bonus: experience in conversion optimization, growth design, data fluency, or experiment-driven environments.