Sr. Manager, Design Job in Expedia Group

Sr. Manager, Design

As a Senior Manager of Design forVrbosGlobal Experience Design Group, youll thrive at the intersection of strategy, craftsmanship and design. Youll place a deep focus on user insights, team building and the highest quality user experience design. Your team crafts compelling solutions that are intuitive, creative, thoughtful, simple and delightful. You inspire a positive environment where an encouraging, hardworking and passionate design community thrive to take design to the next level. You are excited by systemic design and drive to ensure cohesiveness at every point of contact.

Who You are:

• MFA, BFA or BS in Human Factors, Interaction Design, Graphic Design, or equivalent experience.
• 5 plus years of experience in web, native mobile, product, graphic, interaction, content and/or information design.
• In depth knowledge of design principles and experience simplifying complex systems.
• Depth of experience in navigational systemsand simplifying complex products.
• Excellent written and verbal communication and interpersonal skills.
• Experience working in an agile team environment.

What Youll do:

• You lead by example, setting the benchmark for relationship building and design excellence.
• You drive design strategy and inspire others to join the journey of executing against that strategy.
• You understand how to get the best out of your teammates, grow their skills and hire best-in-class talent to join your charter of groundbreaking UX design.
• You tap data to innovate big ideas, but your end-product shows that small details and taste are just as important to you.
• You bridge the worlds of taste-making, content and experiential design.
• You develop clear design strategies for how, what and when to test an experience.
• You transform business problems into user experience opportunities, ultimately designing, testing and launching usable, useful and delightful solutions.
• You manage and mentor designers and inspire the team by leading a great example.
• You demonstrate tried and true practices, but when necessary you invent the new standard.
• You bring a systemic point of view to problem solving, yet you know how to isolate specific design issues and opportunities.
• You identify, investigate and validate design problems within multi-disciplinary teams.
• You are a champion for the team and by working hard, respectfully and humbly, you earn trust and respect from your team, peers, colleagues and managers.
• You are constantly sketching and exploring the spectrum of possibilities.
• You are the difference that moves good to great.
• You arent limited by device or platform, yet you are versed in responsive web and native mobile design.

Why join us:

Expedia Group recognizes our success is dependent on the success of our people. We are the world's travel platform, made up of the most knowledgeable, passionate, and creative people in our business. Our brands recognize the power of travel to break down barriers and make people's lives better that responsibility inspires us to be the place where exceptional people want to do their best work, and to provide them the tools to do so.

Whether you're applying to work in engineering or customer support, marketing or lodging supply, at Expedia Group we act as one team, working towards a common goal; to bring the world within reach. We relentlessly strive for better, but not at the cost of the customer. We act with humility and optimism, respecting ideas big and small. We value diversity and voices of all volumes. We are a global organization but keep our feet on the ground so we can act fast and stay simple. Our teams also have the chance to give back on a local level and make a difference through our corporate social responsibility program, Expedia Cares.

Our family of travel brands includes: Brand Expedia, Hotels.com, Expedia Partner Solutions, Egencia, trivago,Vrbo, Orbitz, Travelocity, Wotif, lastminute.com.au,ebookers,CheapTickets, Hotwire, Classic Vacations, Expedia Media Solutions, CarRentals.com, Expedia Local Expert, Expedia CruiseShipCenters,SilverRailTechnologies, Inc., ALICE andTraveldoo.

AboutVrbo:

Vrbo, a world leader in the vacation rental industry, is the place to book beach houses, cabins, and condos with more than two million places to stay in 190 countries. Our products make it easy to find and book the perfect vacation rental for any getaway, often for less than the cost of traditional hotel accommodations.

Expedia Group is committed to creating an inclusive work environment with a diverse workforce. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, gender, gender identity or expression, sexual orientation, national origin, genetics, disability, age, or veteran status. This employer participates in E-Verify. The employer will provide the Social Security Administration (SSA) and, if necessary, the Department of Homeland Security (DHS) with information from each new employee's I-9 to confirm work authorization.

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