Senior Product Designer

About Fora

Fora is the modern travel agency, redefining what it means to be a travel advisor in today's world. We're a next-generation platform that provides a comprehensive, business-in-a-box solution-combining cutting-edge technology, personalized training, a vibrant community, and exclusive industry partnerships-all designed to empower anyone with a passion for travel to turn that passion into a thriving business. Whether you're a travel enthusiast or an experienced professional, Fora equips you with everything needed to launch and scale a successful travel advisory business, making it the ultimate way to align work with your lifestyle.

At the heart of Fora is our mission: to power the next generation of travel entrepreneurs to transform their love for travel into a fulfilling full-time or part-time career, offering unparalleled flexibility, autonomy, and support. We believe that everyone, from seasoned travel professionals to first-time entrepreneurs, can build a career that's both profitable and aligned with their passions.

Our platform combines innovative technology with the human touch, offering:

• Best-in-class training programs to help agents develop expert knowledge, no matter their starting point.
• A powerful suite of tools for booking, client management, and marketing, ensuring agents can focus on delivering exceptional travel experiences.
• Access to an engaged community of fellow advisors, fostering collaboration, support, and shared learning.
• Exclusive partnerships with top travel brands, providing access to competitive rates, perks, and experiences that elevate advisors' offerings.

Since our founding in 2021 by experienced travel entrepreneurs Henley Vazquez, Jake Peters, and Evan Frank, Fora has experienced rapid growth, expanding to a team of 130+ full-time employees based in downtown New York City. Earlier this year, we announced our $60 million Series B and C investment rounds, led by Thrive Capital and Insight Partners, with participation by previous investors including Forerunner and Heartcore Capital.

This funding represents a vote of confidence in the enduring power of entrepreneurship, and secures our ability to build a category-defining travel brand. We have a vision for the future that leverages the best of humans and the best of technology to create the first truly unified platform for all travel needs - from staycation to the safari.

We're proud of the recognition we've received, including:

• Linked In's Top Startups List 2024
• Fast Company's Most Innovative Companies 2025 and 2023
• Built In 2025 Best Places to Work
• And several "top agency" awards from our fantastic partners including Virtuoso, IHG, Four Seasons, and more

Fora is a mission-driven company that believes in the power of entrepreneurship, community, and passion. As we continue to grow, we are looking for more talented and like-minded individuals to join our team - people who are excited about transforming the travel space and helping us scale our vision globally.

About The Role

We are looking for a Senior Product Designer to join our growing design team. This person will report to our Lead Designer and embed within a product-focused team (Product Manager, Engineering Manager, Engineers). As an early Design hire at a time of rapid company growth, you will play a key role in shaping what our product and design processes will look like for years to come.
Key Responsibilities

• Lead with insights, designs, flows, prototypes, etc.
  
  - both strategically and tactically. Be comfortable with the entire Product Design process from research and design system input, to design and prototyping, to handoff and QA.
• Contribute to our nascent Design System to create consistently high quality experiences for our customers and decrease the time it takes to deliver it.
• Develop product designs that strike a balance between creativity, quality, speed, and business opportunity.
• Design new product features, from conception to user experience to pixel perfect implementation.
• Establish and drive a posture and practice of understanding customer problems deeply - not just reacting to customer requests but understanding them well enough to create solutions customers could not have thought of themselves.
• Demonstrate compelling and confident storytelling that surfaces assumptions and difficult decisions but also aligns stakeholders around solutions.
• Work collaboratively with peers in Product Management, Product Ops, Engineering and across Fora.

About you:

• Have 5+ years of product design experience, preferably in a startup or embedded environment.
• Feel comfortable designing for both SaaS and Consumer-facing products, and have significant experience in at least one.
• Are excited about the prospect of creating many designs quickly, and are excited about both designing from 0-1 and iterating on existing products.
• Approach design with an eye on practicality and business impact.
• Are comfortable working with partial data or input from Product Managers (you can think with a product mindset and…