Associate Director of Design
Core
Leads the product design team, managing people, planning, and day-to-day delivery of web and app experiences for a travel platform.
Role type
Senior IC design leader (Associate Director)
Builds
Web and app experiences for a travel booking platform
Domain
Travel technology
Deliverable
product features
Required skills
Team leadership, design strategy, capacity planning, design system management, UX research, stakeholder communication, hands-on design (Figma, prototyping), AI tool adoption
Preferred skills
Experience managing product designers, improving design operations, coaching designers on AI workflows
Technologies
Figma, prototyping tools, AI-assisted design tools
Responsibilities
Lead, coach, and develop the design team; translate business priorities into design goals; own design capacity planning and work allocation; lead design critiques and reviews; partner with Engineering on implementation; take on selected complex design problems from discovery to delivery.
Seniority
Senior, hands-on IC with leadership responsibilities