Staff Product Designer

TripAdvisor LLC; Greater London; Hybrid; GBP 60,000 - GBP 80,000; Full time

Job summary

A leading travel service provider is seeking a Staff Product Designer to enhance user experiences for travelers on its platforms. The role includes championing design thinking, leading projects from ideation to execution, and collaborating with diverse teams. Candidates should have over five years of product design experience, strong skills in Figma, and a portfolio showcasing innovative solutions. The position allows for hybrid work in a supportive environment with various benefits.

Benefits

Competitive compensation packages

Flexible work options

Tuition assistance

Travel perks

Health benefits

Qualifications

• 5+ years of product design experience at consumer-focused brands or agencies.
• Demonstrated ability to lead product design projects from ideation to delivery.
• Experience working in agile teams and familiar with design frameworks.

Responsibilities

• Design new features that enhance user experience for travelers.
• Champion design thinking within the organisation.
• Collaborate to develop a standardised design system.

Skills

Product design experience

Leading design projects

Agile team experience

Cross-functional collaboration

Figma proficiency

Job description

What you will do

We’re looking for a Staff Product Designer to help design new features that reduce friction and meet the needs of travelers, particularly when they are looking for Hotels. You will be a thought leader for product design across Tripadvisor Hotels.

• Be a champion for design thinking within the organisation.
• Design for a complex two-sided platform within the travel industry.
• Craft exceptional, user-centric digital experiences within a web product environment.
• Collaborate on and contribute to the development of a design system that standardizes visual styles, UI patterns, and functional logic across our entire product suite.
• Design prototypes across multiple fidelity levels to test user flows, validate assumptions, and demonstrate solutions to stakeholders.
• Ensure the delivery of high-quality, consistent consumer experiences by closely collaborating with software engineers and product managers.
• Collaborate closely with a dynamic, entrepreneurial team in a fast-paced environment.

What You’ll Bring to the team

• 5+ years of product design experience at consumer-focused brands or agencies.
• Demonstrated ability to lead product design projects from initial ideation through detailed execution and delivery, including user interactions, UI transformations, and screen state variations.
• Experience working in agile teams and a pragmatic approach to delivering within established design frameworks and processes.
• Proficiency in translating design research, strategic market positioning, and technical requirements into a cohesive design direction, encompassing both visuals and interactions.
• Exposure to data-driven design principles and decision-making processes.
• Proven experience collaborating with cross-functional teams.
• A portfolio showcasing your contributions to digital products, highlighting originality, innovation, and strong problem‑solving skills.
• Familiarity with user research and experience designing for complex SaaS platforms is a plus.
• Proven experience creating high‑fidelity designs and prototypes in Figma, the tool we use at the company.

Please submit your portfolio as a PDF or provide a link to your website. If it is password‑protected, kindly include the password as well.

About Tripadvisor

The Tripadvisor Group connects people to experiences worth sharing, and aims to be the world’s most trusted source for travel and experiences. We leverage our brands, technology, and capabilities to connect our global audience with partners through rich content, travel guidance, and two‑sided marketplaces for experiences, accommodations, restaurants, and other travel categories. The subsidiaries of Tripadvisor, Inc. (Nasdaq: TRIP), include a portfolio of travel brands and businesses, including Tripadvisor, Viator, and TheFork.

Skills & Experience

• Demonstrated ability to use AI tools to improve efficiency, quality, and decision‑making in day‑to‑day work.
• Proven ability to operate effectively with a global‑first mindset

Job Location

Hybrid

What We Offer

• Competitive compensation packages (routinely benchmarked against the latest industry data), including base salary and annual bonuses
• “Work your way” with flexibility to suit your lifestyle. Tripadvisor Group takes a remote‑friendly approach to collaboration across a worldwide team, with the option to join on‑site as often as you’d like or as required by your team.
• Flexible schedule. Work‑life balance is ingrained in our culture by design. Trust and accountability make it work.
• Donation matching. Give back? Give more! We match qualifying charitable donations annually.
• Tuition assistance. Want to level up your career? We love to hear it! Receive annual support for qualified programs.
• Lifestyle benefit. An annual benefit to spend on yourself. Use it on travel, wellness, or whatever suits you.
• Travel perks. We believe that travel is employee development, so we provide discounts and more.
• Employee assistance program. We’re here for you with resources and programs to help you through life’s challenges.
• Health benefits. We offer great coverage and competitive premiums.

We exist to create value for our customer, the traveler. We enable our suppliers and partners to unlock this value. Their collective behaviors and insights are what drives us.

Execution is our edge

We act fast, experiment, learn from failure, iterate, and improve the solutions of tomorrow across every aspect of our business. Our execution is agile, data‑driven, prioritised, and built to scale. We assume no problem is someone else’s problem and finish what can be done today, knowing tomorrow will bring fresh challenges.

We succeed together

The best outcomes are driven by empathic, humble, and diverse subject‑matter experts working toward shared goals. We collaborate relentlessly, challenge assumptions, give actionable feedback, and set each other up for success through empowered teams with a clear charter. We transparently take ownership of our growth, individually and as a team. We celebrate the quality of our effort, our learnings, and our collective achievements.

We strive to create an accessible and inclusive experience for all candidates. If you need a reasonable accommodation during the application or the recruiting process, please make sure to reach out to your individual recruiter or our team at [e-mail].

If you have any additional questions about careers at Tripadvisor you can email us at [e-mail]. We have all the answers!