Senior User Experience Designer

Senior User Experience Designer

We help Travelers go places with relevant media products that solve Traveler problems. We follow the natural form and function of the site, making the ads feel like a natural part of the experience, while enabling Partners to achieve their advertising objectives through proven tactics that deliver measurable results. Our suite of products, tools, and analytics aim to help our Partners inspire, engage, and convert Travelers worldwide.

In This Role, You Will:

• Lead collaborative efforts to define and frame complex product concepts or needs with peer roles and generate multiple potential compelling solutions to advance the product direction.
• Negotiate for the Experience Design (XD) team's priorities considering both long-term strategy and direction and contributes to building experience roadmaps for team.
• Contribute to the development of both business metrics and experience success metrics, promoting harmony and alignment between them.
• Actively collaborate with PMs to implement highest value improvement opportunities ascertained from customer and market insights that help users connect more effectively with products.
• Analyze and synthesize complex research and test findings to identify novel insights, considering multiple sources of information before drawing conclusions.
• Appropriately weigh research and test findings against other data points (e.g., technical, business) to make informed design decisions and determine the right solution.
• Design user interactions that optimize user engagement, product performance, and business impact.
• Find and implement creative solutions that enhance accessibility and inclusivity to address diverse user needs.
• Use awareness of visual, interaction, and UI design trends to create innovative design concepts and narratives, adapting the design process as-necessary to accomplish goals.
• Define simple, elegant, trustworthy experiences and hold the team accountable to a high quality bar.
• Collaborate strategically with developers to ensure seamless implementation and understand the nuance between hard tech-constraints and opportunities to challenge conventions.
• Demonstrate expertise in utilizing latest design tools, technologies, and best-practices.
• Contribute reusable and scalable components to the design system, including inventing new components, and drives consistency in brand experience across all touchpoints.
• Comprehensively evaluate the system of connections and the library of tools and methodologies available to arrive at the optimal solution.
• Convincingly communicate narratives through storytelling, lead cross-functional collaboration, and influence decision-making and senior stakeholders.
• Establish processes and facilitate rituals for both giving and receiving feedback within the XD group and across peer groups, and actively celebrate team successes.

Minimum Qualifications:

• Degree in User Experience Design or a related design field, or equivalent professional experience.
• 8+ years of professional experience working in User Experience Design or a related design field.
• Experience translating product requirements into design strategy and then acting on that strategy to deliver proposed design solutions which meet those requirements.
• Experience mapping customer journeys and leveraging user stories and personas to inform design strategy.
• Experience crafting design deliverables at various fidelities, including wire frames, mockups, and prototypes.
• Experience leveraging design systems and shared component libraries to ensure consistency and velocity.
• Experience collaborating with a range of diverse stakeholders across Product, Engineering, Marketing, Content, and Research.
• Ability to work successfully through high levels of ambiguity.
• Strong communication skills, both written and verbal.
• Strong attention to design and visual detail.
• Knowledge of current design tools and software.
• A portfolio showcasing design skills representative of your work at each stage of a product life cycle, from conception to release, that details the team, thought processes, successes, and pivots along the way.

Preferred Qualifications:

• Experience working across multiple devices, webviews and browsers.
• Experience partnering with UX Researchers and leveraging research insights to inform design decisions.
• Experience in designing for human diversity (internationalization, localization, accessibility, etc.)
• Experience thoughtfully leveraging emergent AI tools to streamline design processes without compromising quality.
• Experience designing for agentic platforms and tools.
• Experience working in advertising.
• Experience presenting to executive audiences.

The total cash range for this position in Chicago is $161,000.00 to $225,500.00. Employees in this role have the potential to increase their pay up to $257,500.00, which is the top of the range, based on ongoing, demonstrated, and sustained performance in the role.

The total cash range for this position in Seattle is $173,000.00 to $242,500.00. Employees in this role have the potential to increase their pay up to $277,000.00, which is the top of the range, based on ongoing, demonstrated, and sustained performance in the role.

Starting pay for this role will vary based on multiple factors, including location, available budget, and an individual’s knowledge, skills, and experience. Pay ranges may be modified in the future.

Expedia Group is proud to offer a wide range of benefits to support employees and their families, including medical/dental/vision, paid time off, and an Employee Assistance Program. To fuel each employee’s passion for travel, we offer a wellness & travel reimbursement, travel discounts, and an International Airlines Travel Agent (IATAN) membership. View our full list of benefits.

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Expedia is committed to creating an inclusive work environment with a diverse workforce. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, gender, gender identity or expression, sexual orientation, national origin, genetics, disability, age or veteran status. This employer participates in E-Verify. The employer will provide the Social Security Administration (SSA) and, if necessary, the Department of Homeland Security (DHS) with information from each new employee's I-9 to confirm work authorization.