Job vacancy Sr UX Product Designer, EMEA Region, 100% Remote

NOTE: This is a FULLY remote role, but the candidate must be within the EMEA (Europe, Middle East, and Africa) region in order to collaborate with their team, peers, and customers. You do not have to be in the specific country or city shown in this listing, but please do not apply if you are not physically based within the EMEA region.

Hostaway is a SaaS startup that is transforming the vacation rental industry. With innovative solutions and partnerships with giants like Airbnb, VRBO, and Booking, we're taking on the competition and winning. Leveraging our customer-centric core values, we consistently deliver results that encourage growth, learning, and innovation for our team, our customers, and the industry.

As a profitable and growing company, this role is necessitated by our continued growth.

We are looking for a UX Product Designer with experience in e-commerce to contribute to the success of our direct sales channel. The ideal candidate will be highly motivated, reliable, detailed, and self-driven to produce high-quality work. As a Product Designer within the Direct Sales team, we need you to provide thinking and leadership in pursuit of an exceptional user experience, while at the same time collaborating with a cross-functional team on figuring out what’s the best feasible experience for our users, at every given time. We want someone who stays abreast of UX trends and looks for creative ideas by themselves and then brings them to the team and the rest of the company. Finally, you are able to drive the creation of simple solutions to complex usability problems.

Your mission involves:

• Conduct user research, analyze needs and intents, identify personas, and customer journey maps, and uncover jobs to be done.
• Design an easy-to-use user interface according to the most advanced world-class UI
• Act as the user advocate, incorporating user-centric design principles.
• Develop UI concepts, brainstorm, and create wireframes and prototypes.
• Deliver detailed designs of the user experience.
• Craft, pitch, and validate design strategies.
• Collaborate with your team on balancing the best user experience with technical feasibility
• Be able to enable your team by breaking your designs down into individual small increments.

Requirements:

• Minimum 5 years of experience in Product Design and PLG for a SaaS B2B application.
• Great skills in Figma. Proficiency in using most of its features.
• Strong visual and interactive design skills; attention to detail down to pixel-perfect execution.
• A team player, willing to jump in and roll up your sleeves with some design work or other tasks needed to keep a project moving.
• You understand systems thinking and component-based design patterns
• Experience working with design systems.
• You give and receive feedback well, supporting and improving the work of your colleagues as well as your own.
• Keeping up to date with trends, and best practices.
• Excellent written, verbal, and interpersonal communication skills — you’ll be collaborating with others and presenting your work regularly.
• Experience working in international teams will be a plus.
• C2 level of English or equivalent/native

• Thank you for your interest. If you apply for this role, you will receive an email from our Talent Acquisition team after your application has been reviewed alongside the qualifications for this role and the qualifications of others who have applied.
• Competitive Compensation: We offer competitive pay based on market rates in the country of the applicant.
• 100% Remote: Enjoy the freedom to work from anywhere within your country of residence—be it a co-working space, your home office, or even your dining room table. The choice is yours. Just don’t ask to work in our office (we don’t have one).
• Equity: Every role in our company comes with valuable stock options in a fast-growing and profitable company. This ensures we all share in the company’s success.
• Values-Driven Leadership: Our Core Values are not just words we’ve written to make us feel good. We leverage them daily when making strategic and tactical decisions.
• Professional Growth: Our rapid growth offers unparalleled learning and development opportunities, along with a multitude of career advancement opportunities.
• Annual Paid Leave: The specific amounts vary by country and are aligned with country and/or contract-specific norms.
• Geographic Specific Benefits: As an international employer, we offer different country-specific benefits such as Health Insurance and Pensions in countries where these perks are customary. The specifics depend on the country of the applicant.
• Dynamic Team Culture: As a global company with team members in over 40 countries, our diverse and international culture fuels our innovation and creativity, providing a key pillar to our success (and making it a lot of fun to work here).