Product Design Team Lead
Guesty
Product Design Team Lead
- Product Design
- Israel
- Management
- Full-time
Description
Guesty is the all-in-one platform for hospitality businesses to automate and optimize every aspect of their operations. With purpose-built technology, industry-wide expertise, and an R&D team of 200+ engineers, Guesty ensures that hospitality businesses can streamline and achieve growth, while delivering the best value to guests. With a complete suite of features and 150+ industry partners, including major booking OTAs like Airbnb, Vrbo, Booking.com, Tripadvisor, Expedia, Hopper, Google Travel, and many more, Guesty is transforming the hospitality industry with innovative solutions.
Today, Guesty has 15 offices and 700+ team members across the globe.
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.