The Role
As a Principal Product Designer, you will lead the design strategy, create customer-centric solutions, and drive design thinking through collaboration and research to enhance user experience.
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⭐ Who we are
Lodgify is a fast-growing scale-up company leading the vacation rental industry. Backed by $30M in funding, our platform empowers property owners and managers worldwide to efficiently manage and grow their business through technology.
Headquartered in sunny Barcelona, we're now a team of 380+ people representing over 60 nationalities, united by a passion for transforming the future of short-term rentals.
⭐ Role Overview
As a Principal Product Designer in the Customer Experience Group, you'll lead through design and own the strategy that brings our product experiences to life.
You'll be the driving force behind creating thoughtful, end-to-end solutions deeply rooted in customer needs, leveraging Design Thinking to ensure our products are as valuable as they are delightful.
This role is where strategic vision meets hands-on design: You'll influence and lead product direction, make high-impact decisions, and ensure every solution is grounded in empathy, research, and business insight.
Join a design-driven culture where your work will directly improve how we deliver value to our customers!
⭐ How will you make an impact?
- Customer-Centric Strategy: Lead the design strategy for your Customer Experience area, ensuring every decision starts with the customer and delivers measurable value.
- Shape Product Direction: Partner closely with Product and business leadership to influence roadmap and strategy, ensuring customer experience is a first-class input, not an afterthought.
- Lead Through Design Thinking: Drive a culture of bold problem-solving through ideation, co-creation, and iterative validation, helping teams ask better questions before jumping to solutions.
- Lean UX Approach: Work iteratively, test early and frequently, adapt quickly to change, and deliver value early through close collaboration with cross-functional partners.
- Turn Research into Strategy: Go beyond synthesis. Translate customer insights into a clear design strategy that aligns stakeholders and unlocks new opportunities.
- Own the End-to-End Journey: Map, challenge, and reimagine user journeys to identify the high-leverage moments where great design creates the most impact.
- Prototype the Future: Generate and test innovative concepts that push the experience forward, not just improve what already exists.
- Validate with Rigor: Lead concept testing and partner with Product and Data on experiments that measure real impact and sharpen your design decisions.
⭐ What makes you a great fit?
- You have a track record of defining UX direction. Not just delivering against it.
- You've set vision, built design strategy, and shaped what "great" looks like in a product area.
- You bring a strong point of view and the communication skills to make it land with peers, product leadership, and the business.
- You're a systems thinker who sees the whole experience, not just individual screens, and you design accordingly.
- You're deeply customer-obsessed, with a history of turning research into insight and insight into strategy.
- You're an excellent collaborator who raises the bar for the teams around you, through craft, clarity, and conviction.
- You have mastery of design tools (Figma and beyond), a solid command of design systems and accessibility, and the range to move from high-level strategy to high-fidelity execution.
- You've contributed to design culture. Whether through mentorship, process improvement, or helping a team level up its practice
Why you’ll love us:
You’ll be part of a growing, dynamic company with a truly international team. At Lodgify, we are full of contagious energy, hard work, and passion for what we do. We celebrate diversity and are proud to acknowledge a variety of backgrounds, perspectives and skills in our team; committed to creating a workplace where everyone is heard and feels a sense of belonging.
What's in it for you?*
🏠 The freedom to work from home any day that works for you.
🌴 Enjoy 25 working days of paid vacation and Jornada Intensiva in August.
💊 Top-notch Cigna health insurance (includes travel insurance, dental plan, psychologist and we cover pre-existing conditions too).
😋 Save on meals! Enjoy a monthly allowance of 150€ and, in addition, a Flexible Remuneration plan with up to 70€. Plus, enjoy a 50% discount on Ametller’s prepared dishes to level up your mealtime!
🚇 Flexible Remuneration options for your transportation needs.
🖥️ Elevate your workspace. We provide a home-office setup allowance to ensure you have everything you need for a productive and comfortable work environment.
🇪🇸 Free Spanish classes.
🤑 Boost your earning potential with our referral program that offers paid compensation.
🌟 Fuel your day with a daily office breakfast buffet and join our monthly events like football tournaments, wine tastings, hikes, kayaking and more!
🎯 Work in a dynamic environment with offices fully equipped for fun with ping pong, foosball, surrounded by an international team of +60 nationalities.
*Benefits offered may differ based on the type of contract that is issued
So, what are you waiting for? Apply now!
All applications and CVs must be submitted in English 😉
Top Skills
Design Thinking
Figma
Ux
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The Company
What We Do
Lodgify is a constantly growing tech start-up, focused on building vacation rental software that enables vacation rental owners to independently manage and market their business online. We do so by providing them with easy-to-build websites, including a booking and reservation system, various synchronisation options, and payment collection options. We are +300 Lodgifiers strong, and you can find us working in Barcelona and all around the world! We are working in a hybrid mode and provide our team members with an option to work from home and spend additional time with their family, friends and pets. With nearly 50 nationalities, we celebrate diversity daily! With 43% of female and 57% of male employees we are striving to establish a gender balance. Actions are continuously taken to include more women in our Tech teams.
