About the Role
- As the Head of UX, you will lead a design and research team consisting of two product designers and one user researcher.
- This is a leadership role focused on building the function, championing the team, and setting them up for success, rather than an IC role.
- You will set the strategic direction for how design and research operates, advocate for the team at leadership level, and create the conditions for your people to do their best work.
- You will play a key role in raising design and research maturity across the wider product organisation by guiding decisions through clearer systems, guidelines, and shared insight.
What You'll Be Doing
- Champion design and research as a strategic partner that shapes the roadmap.
- Partner with Product Leadership to translate strategic business priorities into a clear, sequenced roadmap for Design & Research.
- Set a clear vision for the design and research function, defining what success looks like and how it contributes to the company's overall strategy.
- Raise design and research maturity by providing constructive critique and quality oversight.
- Create space for the team to work on foundational initiatives, such as evolving the component library into a robust Design System and establishing design and content playbooks to drive consistency, efficiency, and quality.
- Set the strategic direction for how AI fits into the design & research workflow, including where it accelerates work versus where craft stays human, and setting guardrails for organizational use.
- Foster a culture where the team integrates AI into product work to evolve their craft and build fluency.
- Ensure designers and researchers play a key role in shaping product and AI direction, grounding decisions in user insight and design perspective.
- Advocate for Design Thinking to be embedded throughout the product life cycle.
- Proactively identify large, strategic UX opportunities that span across the product.
- Navigate competing priorities between leadership direction and team capacity to ensure the team stays focused on high-impact work.
- Provide ongoing coaching, mentoring, and constructive feedback through regular one-to-ones.
- Build clear career frameworks and progression paths for Design and Research.
- Encourage continuous learning, adaptability, and development within the team.
What You'll Bring
A genuine understanding of both design and research disciplines.
Proven experience in a senior design leadership role, with experience owning a function, leading teams of designers and researchers, and influencing product direction at the leadership level.
A track record of advocating for both disciplines at the leadership level and influencing product strategy.
Experience building or maturing a design function, such as establishing processes, systems, playbooks, or ways of working from the ground up.
Curiosity about AI and how it is changing the way design and research teams work.
A compassionate, proactive leadership style that creates emotional safety.
Strong communication skills to translate design value into language that resonates with leadership, product, and engineering.
Comfort with giving and receiving direct feedback.
Nice to Have
Experience in or familiarity with the hotel or travel industry.
Familiarity with building or scaling teams.
Experience building and maintaining a Design System.
Experience working in scale-ups or startups.
Compensation & Benefits
- Remote-First Model: Work from (almost!) anywhere, with opportunities to co-work in Mannheim, Berlin, or Sydney.
- Annual global team gatherings for a week of networking, brainstorming, and fun.
- Regular office hangouts to maintain camaraderie.
- Personal and professional development opportunities.
- Up to three extra days off each year to focus on growth and development.
- Five weeks of bonus vacation time after five years of service.
- Birthday off.
- Flexible working hours.
- Access to Headspace.
- Access to BetterHelp, a professional online therapy and counseling platform.
About RoomPriceGenie
- Founded in 2017, RoomPriceGenie helps hoteliers achieve optimal pricing.
- The company developed a solution using an algorithm that analyzes internal hotel data and market trends to recommend pricing strategies.
- Customers are located in the USA, Canada, Iceland, South Africa, China, Slovenia, Italy, and the UK.
- The team holds a 9.3 score from team members.