Senior UX Designer - Flights

Role Description:

Booking Holdings (NASDAQ: BKNG) is the world leader in online travel and related services, provided to customers and partners in over 220 countries and territories through six primary consumer-facing brands - Booking.com, KAYAK, Priceline, Agoda.com, Rentalcars.com, and OpenTable. The mission of Booking Holdings is to make it easier for everyone to experience the world. During 2019, the Company had consolidated revenues and net income of $15.1 billion and $4.9 billion, respectively, and a current market value of approximately $90 billion.

Booking Holdings Bangalore is a Center of Excellence based in Bangalore, India and a legal entity of Booking Holdings Inc. The Center was created to support the increasing business demands of the Booking Holdings Brands. The Center of Excellence provides access to specialized and highly skilled talent, leading industry best practices, and collaboration opportunities across all of the Booking Holdings brands and business units.

Technology is at our core. But our company is more than datasets, lines of code, or A/B tests. Our people are our biggest assets. Innovation and creativity are at hand. Through our products, partners and people, we strive to make it easier for everyone to experience the world, be that through unique and remote homes, luxury hotel accommodations, long-term stays, compelling loyalty and reward programs, transportation and flight bookings, and curating the connecting trip. Come help us make it happen!

We value diversity of all types and in an open, dynamic workplace. This has been a pillar at Booking.com since day one, and something we continue to strongly believe in and build today. Booking.com is proud to be an equal opportunity workplace and is an affirmative action employer. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment.

A successful candidate for our designer positions area will

• Demonstrate advanced knowledge of user flows, product features, and underlying technologies across teams and tracks - demonstrates a working understanding of the larger user and business context of their product area.

• Demonstrate advanced understanding and application of user-centered design concepts, methods, tools and techniques to enable and advance quality design and outcomes.

• Create high-quality well-researched and data informed design assets and solutions at high volume and velocity.

• Be responsible for overall product design quality in their area - proactively identifies, fixes critical issues and bugs across track teams.

• Complete complex objectives autonomously, involving everyone necessary; proactively generating new product ideas, as well as devising tests and/or processes to evaluate alternatives and recommend solutions.

• Demonstrate advanced understanding of Booking.com's brand, design and accessibility standards and systems and ensure they are adhered to in their area of business.

• Proactively partner with their peers, leads, or others in the tech and product organizations to drive and execute on a broader level strategy to improve the product and the community around them.

• Advance team and design community understanding of user-centered design concepts, methods and techniques; facilitate team ideation sessions, solution discovery and brainstorming relevant for design topics.

• Make use of Booking.com data tools like Experimentation Tool and Analytics and enable usage and definition of qualitative research topics to deliver solutions accountable to business metrics.

• Actively participate in recruiting and initiatives to grow and strengthen the craft community.

• Clearly communicates design approaches and solutions throughout the development lifecycle across multiple teams and disciplines to achieve project objectives, to proactively build productive relationships, and to collaborate to gain cooperation for projects and initiatives within own function.

• Mentor and coach designers within a track; improves others productivity within a track and on other teams where possible.

Required skills and experience

• Five to eight years of experience designing production-level, high-quality assets for web products and native mobile apps;

• Advanced knowledge of web, native apps (Android and iOS) UI design methods, utilization of accessibility practices and design systems, and related the principles, concepts, and theories of product design;

• Demonstrates advanced knowledge of user flows, product features, and underlying technologies across teams and tracks - demonstrates a working understanding of the larger user and business context of their product area.

• Creates high-quality well-researched and data informed design assets and solutions at higher volume and velocity than core level designers.

• Informing design approach and solutions based on customer insights garnered from quantitative and qualitative data and on business priorities

• A successful track record of designing and shipping projects as evidenced in resume and portfolio.

• Demonstrates advanced understanding and application of user-centered design concepts, methods, tools and techniques to enable and advance quality design and outcomes.

• Experience collaborating with and influencing UX Writing, UX Research, Product Management, Engineering, Data and Brand teams

• Expertise in core design tools, such as Figma, and familiarity with corporate collaboration and communication tools and software;

• Strong communication, influence, presentation, and negotiation skills

Preferred skills and experience

• Large corporate software product and design development.

• Specialized skills such as visual design, information architecture, animation, systems design, brand implementation.

• Experience working on a product spanning across multiple cultures / languages.

• Thriving in a fast-paced, multidisciplinary, collaborative environment.

• Demonstrates advanced knowledge of the principles, concepts, and theories of product design and related areas including copywriting and research.

• Bachelor’s or Master’s Degree, but may be substituted with work experience.

About BKNG

Booking Holdings is the world leader in online travel & related services. Our teams work around the clock to build and improve the technology that empowers people to more freely travel across borders, time zones, languages and cultures. At Booking Holdings, we make it easier for everyone to experience the world every day through seamless technology powered by our six major brands:

• Booking.com

• KAYAK

• priceline

• agoda

• Rentalcars.com

• OpenTable

Through the Booking Holdings brands, we help our customers reach all corners of the earth. Our ability to provide great service rests on how well we understand our diverse customer base, which is why having a diverse team is so important to us. We bring together employees from all walks of life and we are proud to provide the kind of inclusive environment that stimulates innovation, creativity and collaboration.

EEO Statement:

Booking Holdings is an equal opportunity employer in accordance with all applicable federal, state and local laws. We ensure equal employment opportunity to all employees and applicants without discrimination or harassment based on race, religious creed, color, age, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, national origin, religion, marital status, medical condition, disability, military service, pregnancy, childbirth and related medical conditions, or any other classification protected by federal, state, or local law.

Booking Holdings also extends this policy to every phase of the employment process including, but not limited to, recruitment, selection, placement, transfer, training and development, position elimination, restructure, promotion, compensation, benefits, layoffs, termination, and all other conditions or privileges of employment. Booking Holdings and its Affiliated Companies are Equal Employment Opportunity employers and welcome all job seekers including individuals with disabilities and veterans with disabilities. If you have a disability and believe you need reasonable accommodation in order to search for a job opening or apply for a position, please email reasonableaccommodation@bookingholdings.com with your request. M/F/V/D/SO