Director, User Experience Design

Expedia Group brands power global travel for everyone, everywhere. We design cutting-edge tech to make travel smoother and more memorable, and we create groundbreaking solutions for our partners. Our diverse, vibrant, and welcoming community is essential in driving our success.

Why Join Us?

To shape the future of travel, people must come first. Guided by our Values and Leadership Agreements, we foster an open culture where everyone belongs, differences are celebrated and know that when one of us wins, we all win.

We provide a full benefits package, including exciting travel perks, generous time-off, parental leave, a global hybrid work setup (with some pretty cool offices), and career development resources, all to fuel our employees' passion for travel and ensure a rewarding career journey. We`re building a more open world. Join us.

Director, User Experience Design

Introduction to the team

The Partner Experience Design team at EG is responsible for creating human-centered experiences enabling travel Partners to build and optimize their businesses, understand their potential, and reach the right travelers.

We`re looking for a Design Director to help elevate our Advertising tools experience within our Expedia Group Traveler and Partner ecosystem. Our Advertising business is inspiring travelers to explore new options and experiences, while helping our travel partners reach the right customers across our network of brands. This role will partner with product and engineering leadership to lead cross-functional teams of researchers, content designers, UX designers, product managers, engineers, and sales teams. You will guide the vision and strategic direction for Advertising tools experiences, including products and interfaces for B2B advertising portals and consumer-facing Traveler advertising placement systems. This role will report to the Vice President of Experience Design for Partner Experiences.

In this role, you will:

• Champion human-centered design, driving best practice for problem framing and synthesis of customer and business insights
• Influence organization level strategic roadmap discussions alongside Product and Engineering leadership
• Lead collaboration with key stakeholders and contributes subject matter expertise to identify org-level opportunities and process improvements
• Drive compelling customer experience vision, strategy, and success metrics at an organizational level
• Practice, drive, and teach exemplary visual and interaction design practice and holds the design organization accountable to deliver high-quality experiences
• Provide guidance when evaluating the impacts of a solution to ensure linkages between structure, process, and technology
• Leverage shared insights, tools, and design systems to build cohesive experiences within a product ecosystem
• Use storytelling and persuasion to create materials that connect vision, strategy and action plans at organization level
• Advocate for the work of the experience design org to stakeholders, peers, and the wider organization
• Places individuals in roles and assignments that contribute to their personal and career development
• Facilitate cross-team and cross-divisional movement when appropriate
• Coach managers on building trusting, candid relationships with their teams to enable productive development conversations
• Envisions and drives efforts in shaping healthy team culture and values across the broader organization
• Drive a safe culture of constructive critique and feedback
• Be accountable for setting and meeting departmental goals
• Identify and resolve issues that may impair the team's ability to meet strategic, financial and technical goals
• Help team members identify and build key relationships and networks inside and outside the organization
• Inspire. Lead. Elevate.

Experience and Qualifications:

• Bachelor`s degree in Human-Computer Interaction, User Experience, or related design field; or equivalent related professional experience
• 7-10+ years related professional experience in b2b or b2c user experience design, design consulting, or agency, specifically in Adtech or Marketing-related digital tools
• Experience in leadership of Senior Managers and senior UX Designers
• An experienced creative leader who thrives at the intersection of business and design
• Fluent in user experience design, research, and content strategy processes and practices - This role will partner closely with peer Directors in UX Research, Content Design, Product Management, Engineering, Strategy, and Product Marketing
• Experience growing and leading high-performing design teams
• Oversee multiple concurrent teams and projects across multiple global locations
• A strong verbal and visual communicator. Storytelling is your jam
• Love data visualizations, helping customers achieve their goals, and continuously improving product experiences
• Adept at growing talent and helping people do their best work
• A team player who is fluent in working with Product, Engineering, Strategy, and Marketing
• Understand the intricacies of advertising and marketing
• An advocate for people, their goals, and creating the best experiences to help them succeed

The total cash range for this position in Chicago is $202,500.00 to $283,500.00. Employees in this role have the potential to increase their pay up to $324,000.00, which is the top of the range, based on ongoing, demonstrated, and sustained performance in the role.

Starting pay for this role will vary based on multiple factors, including location, available budget, and an individual`s knowledge, skills, and experience. Pay ranges may be modified in the future.

Accommodation requests

If you need assistance with any part of the application or recruiting process due to a disability, or other physical or mental health conditions, please reach out to our Recruiting Accommodations Team through the Accommodation Request.

We are proud to be named as a Best Place to Work on Glassdoor in 2024 and be recognized for award-winning culture by organizations like Forbes, TIME, Disability:IN, and others.

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