Staff Experience Designer

Airbnb is seeking a Staff Experience Designer to join our Design team in London. In this individual contributor role, you will partner with writers, researchers, product specialists, and engineers to build beautiful, usable, forward-looking products. You will play a critical role in shaping how Airbnb shows up in markets across EMEA, Latin America, and APAC, adapting core experiences to regional needs while feeding market insights back into broader product strategy. You will work across time zones and functions to define and deliver an international roadmap spanning tactical UI improvements and larger strategic bets.

• Support and shape the evolution of the Airbnb platform from a design perspective, ensuring consistency with brand and product architecture.
• Partner with Product Managers, Engineers, Data Scientists, Researchers, and Writers to define problems and goals, map user flows, prototype interactions, and launch new products and services.
• Influence leadership decision making through a clear point of view and solve highly complex problems autonomously.
• Provide indirect leadership and mentorship for a team of designers through end-to-end interaction and visual design of products and services for a global audience.
• Anticipate business challenges and independently create product solutions.
• Build strong relationships with leaders inside and outside core product teams; strong communication and executive stakeholder management skills.
• Scope project work (in partnership with PMs and engineers) and help define the design process and timeline.

• Bachelor's degree or equivalent combination of education and progressive experience.
• Designer/Design Leader with 10+ years of experience.
• Excellent visual and interaction skills and craft.
• Defines design direction and process and can lead others through it.
• Can accurately scope their work as well as their teammate's.
• Can effortlessly motivate and drive small to medium teams to transform a product.
• Demonstrated ability to help a team navigate ambiguity, set vision, and set strategy for global products.
• Systems-thinker with the ability to think beyond the pixels and design for offline experiences.
• Experience with making complex information, tools, and services easily digestible for your audience.
• Strong storytelling, presentation, communication and stakeholder management skills.
• Experience designing platforms and systems.
• Experience managing and collaborating with research and writing disciplines.
• 0 to 1 experience or experience redesigning major elements of product, experience or service design.

This position is US - Remote Eligible. The role may include occasional work at an Airbnb office or attendance at offsites, as agreed to with your manager. While the position is Remote Eligible, you must live in a state where Airbnb, Inc. has a registered entity. Click here for the up-to-date list of excluded states.

United Kingdom Annual Pay Range: £112,000—£140,000 GBP. This role may also be eligible for bonus, equity, benefits, and Employee Travel Credits.

Apply through the provided link. For reasonable accommodation during the application process, contact reasonableaccommodations@airbnb.com.