Senior Product Designer, K4B

KAYAK, part of Booking Holdings (NASDAQ: BKNG), is a leading travel search engine. With billions of queries across our platforms, we help people find their perfect flight, stay, rental car and vacation package. We’re also transforming business travel with a new corporate travel solution, KAYAK for Business ( K4B ). As an employee of KAYAK, you will be part of a travel company that operates a portfolio of global metasearch brands including momondo, Cheapflights and HotelsCombined, among others. From start-up to industry leader, innovation is at our core and every employee has an opportunity to make their mark. Our focus is on building the best travel search engine to make it easier for everyone to experience the world. We are seeking a Senior Product Designer with experience designing for digital consumer products to help shape and elevate the user experience for our corporate travel shopping experience. As a senior member of the product design team, you will create, test, and deliver web and mobile experiences within an agile software development team. You will be working with a diverse team of Product Managers, Engineers and Designers to influence the strategic direction for your product area(s) by translating insights into ideas that balance business goals, technical constraints, and voice of our customer end-users. This role will be required to work from our Berlin office at least 3 days per week.   In this role, you will: • Be autonomous and collaborative. Take full ownership of your design work and full responsibility for communication with your teammates. Own the success or failure of your projects. • Interface directly with cross-functional teams and customers to collect the insights and constraints that inform your design decisions. • Rapidly produce multiple concepts and prototypes for design solutions that drive user and business impact. • Apply systems thinking to approach scalable design solutions and the areas they impact, both now and in the future. • Conduct qualitative user research, analyze findings, and translate insights into actionable improvements to your product area. • Facilitate alignment within cross-functional teams and senior stakeholders by clearly communicating design rationale, scope, and measurable success criteria. • Influence strategic direction for your product area while synthesizing feedback from across the organization and iterating thoughtfully on proposed solutions. Please apply if you have: • 6+ years of experience in a B2B or B2C product design organization • Mastery of user experience and interaction design principles, with demonstrated ability to solve complex product challenges end-to-end. • An understanding of the entire product development process and the ability to ship features inside an ever-growing and experimenting company. • Excellent communication skills, together with analytical thinking and problem-solving capability. Able to break down and simplify sophisticated problems and confidently present to a mixed audience of different levels in the organization. • A human-centered design mentality, with experience conducting usability studies, performing user research, or crafting options for experimentation. • Experience working in a dynamic design process where quantitative and qualitative customer data guide decisions. • Strong time management skills and the ability to be self-directed and prioritize effectively. Demonstrated attention to detail that teammates can rely on. • Proficiency using modern design, user research, prototyping, and AI tools, with experience in testing interactive prototypes and contributing to shared design systems. • A positive demeanor toward your work, including curiosity to learn and a willingness to adapt as new and different challenge