Senior User Experience Designer

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Expedia Group brands power global travel for everyone, everywhere. We design cutting‑edge tech to make travel smoother and more memorable, and we create groundbreaking solutions for our partners. Our diverse, vibrant, and welcoming community is essential in driving our success.

To shape the future of travel, people must come first. Guided by our Values and Leadership Agreements, we foster an open culture where everyone belongs, differences are celebrated and we know that when one of us wins, we all win. We provide a full benefits package, including exciting travel perks, generous time‑off, parental leave, a flexible work model (with some pretty cool offices), and career development resources, all to fuel our employees' passion for travel and ensure a rewarding career journey.

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We’re looking for a Senior User Experience Designer who’s ready to be a visible design and practice lead and emerging thought leader. Working across broad domains on our Expedia brand, you’ll collaborate closely with product owners, commercial partners, designers, researchers, and engineers to create delightful customer experiences that help millions of people see and enjoy more of the world. We want someone excited about solving hard problems and thinking about the human on the other side of the screen.

Your work will directly impact how people discover and book the perfect elements of their trip, helping power global travel for everyone, everywhere.

• Partner with teams to tackle complex product challenges and brainstorm multiple creative solutions that move us forward
• Help shape our experience strategy and roadmap by balancing what travelers need today with where we’re heading tomorrow
• Build compelling visions for traveler experiences at EG and partnership intersections—and determine how to measure success.
• Team up with Product Managers and other leaders in the partnership team to spot the biggest opportunities for helping travelers connect with our products
• Negotiate priorities considering both long‑term strategy and contribute to building experience roadmaps
• Build great relationships with our User Research team and explore new ways to understand what travelers really need
• Dig into research findings to uncover those “aha!” insights, weighing what we learn against technical realities and business goals
• Adapt our design processes to tackle big, messy problems (because travel can be complicated)
• Turn research insights into design solutions that consistently hit the mark for our customers
• Create user interactions that travelers love—ones that work beautifully and drive real business results
• Be the champion for simple, elegant experiences that people actually trust (and hold the team to that standard too)
• Mentor other designers and show them what great design looks like in action
• Find and implement creative solutions that enhance accessibility and inclusivity for diverse user needs, making our products work for everyone
• Work closely with developers to bring designs to life, knowing when to push boundaries and when to work within constraints
• Stay on top of the latest design tools and techniques (and maybe discover a few new ones along the way)
• Think about the technical building blocks—modularity, reusability, all that good stuff that makes scalable design possible
• Help grow our design system by creating reusable components that make everyone’s life easier
• Think big picture and take a whole systems approach—how does this button connect to that flow, and how does it all work together for travelers?
• Lead creation of project artifacts for large, complex projects, ensuring quality and timeliness
• Design flexible components and patterns that can adapt as we grow and learn
• Tell compelling stories about your design work that get stakeholders excited and bought in
• Create feedback cultures where everyone feels…