Product Design Team Lead
About The Position
Guesty is the all-in-one platform helping hospitality businesses around the world automate, optimize, and scale their operations. We’re a fast-growing global startup that’s transforming how the industry works — from guest experience to business growth.With a powerful suite of features and integrations with 150+ industry partners — including Airbnb, Vrbo, Booking.com, Expedia, Google Travel, and many more — Guesty empowers property managers to deliver top-tier guest experiences while running more efficient, data-driven operations.We’re proud to have over 800+ team members across 16 countries worldwide, all working together to build the future of hospitality technology. If you’re looking to grow your career in a dynamic, global, and impact-driven environment, we’d love to hear from you.
With the agility of an 11-year-old startup and the stability of a large organization, we’re building a design-focused culture that values ownership, collaboration, and excellence. Be a key stakeholder across projects, owning the design vision alongside top talent in an environment dedicated to crafting thoughtful, human-centered solutions.
Responsibilities
Key Responsibilities:
- Directly manage and continuously grow a team of experienced senior product designers, providing them with mentorship and professional career growth opportunities.
- Lead the design of specific features or products independently, ensuring alignment with business goals.
- Collaborate with cross-functional teams (product, engineering, marketing) to ensure a cohesive and aligned design process.
- Drive design projects to completion, ensuring they meet project KPIs and are delivered on time and within budget.
- Identify and solve design challenges, iterating based on user feedback and data.
- Create high-fidelity prototypes for usability testing and iterate based on results.
- Contribute to the design system by successfully integrating new components.
- Communicate design decisions, both visually and verbally, to stakeholders at all levels.
Requirements
Required Skills:
- At least 6 years of experience with advanced proficiency in UI/UX design tools and methodologies.
- Strong user-centric design thinking, problem-solving skills, and ability to define and improve design processes.
- Proven ability to deeply understand and craft complex flows shared across a multi-product system.
- Ability to craft delightful experiences within tight system limitations with minimum impact on UX.
- Strong attention to detail with top-notch UI design skills.
- Analyze user research data and integrate findings into the design.
- Highly adaptable and able to thrive in a fast-paced environment.
- Excellent communication and collaboration skills, with the ability to justify design decisions and lead discussions.
- Strong time management skills, with the ability to multitask between several projects.
- Ability to provide clear and constructive design critique.
- Direct managerial experience with a strong leadership and mentorship record.
Expected Behaviors:
- Eager to learn, actively seeking feedback, and asking questions.
- Demonstrates a strong work ethic, meets deadlines, ensuring reliability.
- Quickly and self-sufficiently onboards oneself to new projects and design challenges.
- Processes unsolicited feedback from multiple stakeholders and effectively incorporates it into high-quality design output.
- Initiates and participates in design-related activities, educating the company on design advocacy and best practices.
Guesty is proud to be an Equal Opportunity Employer. We provide equal employment opportunities to all employees and applicants regardless of any characteristic protected by law.