Senior Mobile Designer

The role

The TravelPerk Product Design team is excited to welcome a new member to the App Experience Tribe. If you consider yourself an autonomous Senior Product Designer who has worked on native mobile products for at least 2-3 years and keeps the customer at the heart of everything you do, read on…

At TravelPerk, we work in “squads”—small, autonomous teams composed of full-stack engineers, a Product Manager, and a Product Designer. As a Senior Product Designer, you’ll take charge of design within your squad, while also collaborating with the wider Design team and contributing to our overall product strategy.

Within a squad in the App Experience Tribe, you’ll closely work with the product and engineering teams to create outstanding native experiences for our users. Your main focus will be designing next-generation mobile experiences for iOS and Android, ensuring a seamless and enjoyable end-to-end experience. Be part of the team transforming the future of mobile travel experiences!

What will my day look like?

Within your squad, we are looking for you to be confident in the following:

• Developing intuitive, usable, and engaging user experiences and visual designs for mobile.
• Developing a partnership with your Product Manager and Engineering Lead to fully understand customer needs and business value, challenging each other to raise the bar for your product area.
• Collaborating with dedicated tribe researcher to co-ordinate and run usability tests, discovery sessions, contextual analyses plus any other relevant research required to better understand the problems that our customers are faced with, identifying ways to uncover opportunities.
• Working with our data team to interrogate various data sources to uncover relevant quantitative insights.
• Ideating quickly and effectively with your squad, favouring communication and collaboration over ping-ponging via tools.
• Working with our in-house content designers to ensure that the product follows the style guide and is effectively localised.
• Contributing to and using the Native Mobile Design System, with expertise in design principles for both iOS and Android
• Applying platform-specific guidelines such as Apple’s Human Interface Guidelines and Google’s Material Design.
• Continuously optimising the design process in your squad and across the wider team.
• Testing and optimizing low–high fidelity prototypes with key stakeholders and customers to iteratively validate that we are solving the right problems.
• Supporting fellow designers, bringing your unique skill-set and continually raising the bar of the team and our products.
• Influencing and supporting the growth of the team through hiring.
• Ensuring high-quality implementation of designs through thorough checks and quality assurance (QA).
• Working in English to a professional level, both writing and speaking.

What skills are required?

• 2-3 years of experience in designing native mobile applications, with a total of 5+ years in product design
• An up-to-date portfolio showcasing mobile design
• Experience working with Figma or a similar tool
• Solid communication skills (verbal and written). You are comfortable presenting ideas to multiple stakeholders and articulately defending design decisions.
• Ability to influence product roadmaps working alongside Product Managers and Engineers
• Advocating for and rolling out Design Systems
• Regular interaction with customers and prospects to understand the problem space
• A positive and proactive team player who can help elevate us

Why You’ll Love Our Team

You’ll join a team of over 30+ Product Designers, Content Designers and Researchers, with multiple nationalities, backgrounds and personalities. You will be working in a highly collaborative environment where feedback, transparency, and support are at the core of what we do. We lean on each others strengths and we save competitiveness for the occasional after-work Pictionary game.

We value autonomy, proactivity, and creativity. We create time, space, and opportunities for you to think, experiment, and share ideas. And we firmly believe in prioritising impact over effort.

Your career and development are supported by our Competency Framework and regular development conversations. We offer a transparent career path - whether you will want to progress as an individual contributor or as a design manager.

Want to know more? Find us at travelperk.design

What do we offer?

• Competitive compensation including equity in the company
• Generous vacation days so you can rest and recharge
• Health perks such as private healthcare or gym allowance depending on your location
• "Flexible compensation plan" to help you diversify and increase the net salary
• Flexibility to work from home most of the time with core hours
• Unforgettable TravelPerk events including to travel to one of our hubs
• Mental health support tool for your wellbeing
• Exponential growth opportunities 

Our Vision is for a world where TravelPerk is the platform for human connection in real life (IRL). We take an IRL-first approach to work, where our team works together in person 3 days a week. As such, this role requires you to be within commuting distance of our Barcelona or London hub. We fundamentally believe in meeting in real life to improve connectivity, productivity, and creativity, ultimately making us a great workplace.

For certain roles, we can help with relocation from anywhere in the world, English is the official language at the office. Please submit your resume in English if you choose to apply. Do not forget to submit an updated portfolio and/or resume.

TravelPerk is a global company with a diverse customer base—and we want to make sure the people behind our product reflect that. We’re an equal opportunity employer, which means you’re welcome at TravelPerk regardless of how you look, where you’re from, or anything else that makes you, well, you.