Senior Product Designer, Brand & Visual

Accountabilities:: Brand Identity and Visual Language: Help define and evolve a distinctive visual identity across digital products, marketing materials, and customer touchpoints. Establish consistent design principles that strengthen brand recognition and create a premium, cohesive experience. Product Design and User Experience: Design intuitive, visually compelling customer-facing experiences for web and mobile applications, translating complex user needs into clear, accessible, and engaging interfaces. Motion, Illustration, and Iconography: Develop distinctive motion graphics, illustrations, and icon systems that bring personality to the brand and product. Ensure visual assets are consistent, purposeful, and aligned with the overall design language. Marketing and Brand Creative: Create high-quality visual assets for campaigns, advertisements, product launches, events, presentations, and other brand initiatives targeting travelers and property operators. End-to-End Design Execution: Take ownership of design projects from initial concept and exploration through prototyping, refinement, and delivery. Remain closely involved in execution to ensure a high standard of visual quality. Cross-Functional Collaboration: Partner with product managers, engineers, and brand designers to align creative direction with business goals, technical requirements, and customer needs. Prototyping and Experimentation: Explore new concepts through rapid prototyping, interactive mockups, and emerging design technologies. Use tools such as Figma, AI-powered applications, and Vercel to bring ideas to life and accelerate iteration. Visual Quality and Attention to Detail: Maintain exceptionally high standards across typography, composition, color, spacing, interaction patterns, and interface polish. Identify opportunities to refine and elevate every stage of the user experience. Design Consistency and Scalability: Help develop reusable visual components, patterns, and systems that support consistent brand expression and efficient product development as the business grows. Innovation and Continuous Improvement: Experiment with new approaches, challenge conventional design solutions, and contribute fresh ideas that improve product usability, visual differentiation, and customer engagement. Requirements: Professional Experience: Demonstrated experience in senior-level product design, digital design, visual design, or a closely related discipline, with a strong portfolio showcasing exceptional visual execution and shipped digital products. Exceptional Visual Craft: Outstanding skills in typography, composition, color theory, layout, and interaction design, with a meticulous approach to creating polished, sophisticated, and visually distinctive experiences. Motion and Illustration Expertise: Significant expertise in either motion design or illustration, combined with strong capabilities in the other discipline. Ability to create original visual assets that add character and enhance the brand and product experience. Icon Design: Proven ability to design clean, consistent, and cohesive icon sets that integrate naturally into a broader visual system. Product Design Experience: Experience designing and shipping consumer-facing digital products across web and mobile platforms, with the ability to translate complex requirements into intuitive and engaging user experiences. Brand and Product Integration: Ability to balance brand expression with functional product design, maintaining visual consistency while adapting creative solutions to different customer journeys and business objectives. Prototyping and Design Tools: Strong proficiency in Figma and experience developing interactive prototypes, testing concepts, and iterating quickly. Familiarity with tools such as Vercel and modern digital creation platforms is an advantage. AI and Emerging Technologies: Enthusiasm for experimenting with AI-powered design tools, creative automation, and new technologies that improve the design process. Experience building custom tools or workflows is a plus. Attention to Detail: A strong commitment to visual precision, design consistency, and high-quality execution, from overarching experience architecture to the smallest interface details. Collaboration and Communication: Excellent communication skills and the ability to work closely with designers, product teams, and engineers to develop ideas, incorporate feedback, and deliver effective solutions. Ownership and Initiative: A proactive, hands-on approach to design, with the ability to manage projects independently, explore alternative solutions, and move concepts into production efficiently. Adaptability and Creative Thinking: Comfort working in a fast-paced, evolving environment where experimentation, thoughtful decision-making, constructive debate, and continuous improvement are encouraged. Portfolio Requirements: A portfolio demonstrating shipped product work is required. Applicants should also provide examples of motion design, illustration, and iconography to showcase their visual range and technical depth. Benefits: Remote Work: Fully remote opportunity available to candidates based in the United States. Creative Ownership: The opportunity to shape a distinctive visual identity and influence the design direction of both a digital product and its broader brand experience. High-Impact Projects: Work across customer-facing web and mobile products, brand campaigns, marketing assets, and new product launches. Innovation-Driven Environment: Opportunities to experiment with AI tools, rapid prototyping, emerging technologies, and new approaches to digital design. Cross-Functional Collaboration: Work closely with product, engineering, and creative professionals in a collaborative environment that values strong ideas and thoughtful execution. Hands-On Design Culture: A practical, individual-contributor role with substantial time dedicated to creating, prototyping, refining, and shipping design work. Professional Growth: Opportunities to expand expertise across product design, brand development, motion, illustration, and emerging creative technologies. Creative Freedom: An environment that encourages experimentation, fresh perspectives, constructive feedback, and high standards of design excellence.