Senior User Experience Designer - Hot Wire

Job Description

Hotwire is not your typical company. First, we're a part of Expedia Group, a portfolio of brands that include Expedia, Vrbo, Hotels.com, Hotwire, and more. We offer flights, hotels, cars, and packages to travelers around the world. As a startup, Hotwire revolutionized the travel industry, forever changing the way people travel.

Hotwire has the energy and pace of a startup, plus the Expedia family's stability and backing. Hotwire's culture centers around delivering value to customers and supply partners through our passion for building great products with the latest, performant technologies available. We pride ourselves on our organizational transparency, a bias for action, and a customer-centric approach to everything we do.

As a Sr. Designer for Hotwire, you'll thrive at the intersection of craftsmanship, design, and strategy. In your role, you will use your wealth of experience and advanced skills to provide hands-on art direction, meeting the challenges of redefining the Hotwire brand's digital expression and creating a system to ensure it is executed consistently over time. You will identify what makes Hotwire a genuinely unique travel agency and personify those characteristics in a way that connects Hotwire to our customers.

What you'll do

• Reimagine the Hotwire brand - expressing a personality that's authentic, distinct, and memorable
• Communicate a clear, compelling new direction; engaging and inspiring key partners to ensure consensus
• Drive the organization to relevant, inspirational design that evokes delight in our customers and competes aggressively against others in our space
• Bridge the worlds of taste-making, content, and experiential design
• Develop digital standards, and specify their application across all customer touchpoints
• Develop, own and maintain a digital style guide, and ensure the user interface is consistent site-wide
• Develop and maintain strong relationships with partners in brand and marketing
• Ensure the design team is engaged in consistent execution of the UX visual design approach on all initiatives
• Collaborate with multi-functional teams (ux design, research, product management, marketing, and brand) on initiatives
• Contribute to the expansion and evolution of our design system

Who you are

• MFA, BFA or BS in Graphic Design, Visual Communications, Digital Media or equivalent experience
• Specialist in 1 core skill, strong and capable in other skills: Interaction/visual design, Information architecture, User research, Facilitation, Prototyping, Technical/Platform knowledge, UX writing, Illustration, and Motion design.
• 7+ years of proven experience in web, native mobile, product, graphic, interaction, and content preferred
• Adept in crafting compelling visual designs with consideration for typography, color, iconography, interaction, and motion
• Fluent in visual design principles at both a conceptual level and a practical level. Based on your experience, you can meaningfully share your understanding of ideas like color, shape, space, type, balance, hierarchy, and form
• Experienced in applying strategic thinking and business goals to design, challenging established thinking, and discovering new ways of solving a problem
• A skillful listener who can build consensus among a diverse group of partners
• A skilled designer with a strong portfolio of work that includes brand development and experience shipping visually compelling digital products
• Experienced using design and prototyping tools to translate ideas into working products (e.g., Figma, Sketch, Adobe CC, InVision)
• Excellent written and verbal communication and interpersonal skills

Why join us

Expedia Group recognizes our success is dependent on the success of our people. We are the world's travel platform, made up of the most knowledgeable, passionate, and creative people in our business. Our brands recognize the power of travel to break down barriers and make people's lives better – that responsibility inspires us to be the place where exceptional people want to do their best work, and to provide them to tools to do so.

Whether you're applying to work in engineering or customer support, marketing or lodging supply, at Expedia Group we act as one team, working towards a common goal; to bring the world within reach. We relentlessly strive for better, but not at the cost of the customer. We act with humility and optimism, respecting ideas big and small. We value diversity and voices of all volumes. We are a global organization but keep our feet on the ground so we can act fast and stay simple. Our teams also have the chance to give back on a local level and make a difference through our corporate social responsibility program, Expedia Cares.

If you have a hunger to make a difference with one of the most loved consumer brands in the world and to work in the dynamic travel industry, this is the job for you.

Our family of travel brands includes: Brand Expedia®, Hotels.com®, Expedia® Partner Solutions, Egencia®, trivago®, Vrbo®, Orbitz®, Travelocity®, Wotif®, ebookers®, CheapTickets®, Hotwire®, Expedia® Media Solutions, CarRentals.comTM, Expedia Local Expert®, Expedia® Cruise® and SilverRail Technologies, Inc. For more information, visit www.expediagroup.com.

Expedia is committed to creating an inclusive work environment with a diverse workforce. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, gender, gender identity or expression, sexual orientation, national origin, genetics, disability, age, or veteran status. This employer participates in E-Verify. The employer will provide the Social Security Administration (SSA) and, if necessary, the Department of Homeland Security (DHS) with information from each new employee's I-9 to confirm work authorization.

Expedia is committed to creating an inclusive work environment with a diverse workforce. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, gender, gender identity or expression, sexual orientation, national origin, genetics, disability, age, or veteran status. This employer participates in E-Verify. The employer will provide the Social Security Administration (SSA) and, if necessary, the Department of Homeland Security (DHS) with information from each new employee's I-9 to confirm work authorization.