KAYAK, part of Booking Holdings (NASDAQ: BKNG), is the world’s 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.
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 in our DNA 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.
KAYAK is seeking a Design Systems Designer with a focus on mobile to join our global Product Design team! This role will be a key force behind building and scaling a world-class design system for our iOS and Android apps. You’ll work with a hardworking group of designers, engineers, and marketers to ensure that every KAYAK app is visually stunning, easy to use, and delivers a consistent, high-quality experience from first touch to loyal user.
You will collaborate across multiple teams, drive adoption of our design system, and help mentor a growing community of mobile designers. You’ll play a key role connecting our global design, product, and marketing teams, collaborating to build seamless experiences across every user journey.
In this role, you will:
- Lead the design for KAYAK’s apps on iOS and Android, through evolution of scalable mobile UI components, patterns, and guidelines.
- Ensure a consistent design across all user touch points, while also leaning into and embracing platform differences.
- Champion mobile UX quality, accessibility, and visual polish across platforms, setting the standard for all KAYAK app experiences.
- Manage and coordinate the Mobile Team, bringing together designers from various product teams to align on mobile quality standards, and design rituals.
- Work closely with Marketing and Product teams, especially our App Acquisition team, to ensure an integrated and consistent experience from ad to in-app onboarding.
- Partner with product pods and embedded designers in our agile teams, ensuring that the design system patterns are adopted and improved through feedback.
- Own documentation and Figma library management as well as lead training and onboarding sessions to help the entire team move faster and smarter.
- Keep KAYAK at the forefront of mobile design trends, platform updates, and tooling by continuously researching, sharing, and integrating new ideas.
Please apply if you have:
- 5 years of proven experience in product design, with at least 2 years building or maintaining a mobile design system for a consumer app at scale.
- Strong expertise in designing across mobile, with a deep knowledge of Apple HIG and Material Design. You know when to keep things consistent and when to embrace platform differences.
- Deep experience with Figma, including building and maintaining robust component libraries, design tokens, and documentation.
- A solid understanding of mobile accessibility requirements and animation/motion standard methodologies (experience with tools like Lottie or Rive is a plus).
- Experience collaborating with cross-functional partners in product, engineering, and marketing.
- A proven track record of mentoring or leading design communities, guilds, or teams focused on mobile.
- A proactive, meticulous approach and a strong sense of ownership over your work.
Benefits and Perks
- Work from (almost) anywhere for up to 20 days per year
- Focus on mental health and well-being:
- Company-paid therapy sessions through SpringHealth
- Company-paid subscription to HeadSpace
- Company-wide week off a year - the whole team fully recharges (and returns without a pile-up of work!)
- No meeting Fridays
- Paid parental leave
- Generous paid vacation + time off for your birthday
- Paid volunteer time
- Focus on your career growth:
- Development Dollars
- Leadership development
- Access to thousand of on-demand e-learnings
- Travel Discounts
- Employee Resource Groups
- 6 weeks paid vacation
- Free lunch 2 days per week
- Pension plan contributions
- Public transportation subsidies
- Bike leasing program
- Monthly social events, massages, Thursday happy hours, sports teams
- A great office in Friedrichshain, Berlin
Inclusion
At KAYAK, we want everyone to have the space to grow, share ideas and do great work. That’s why we’re focused on hiring the best talent from all walks of life and experiences, supporting them well and making sure no one feels like they have to fit a mold to belong here.
Need an accommodation for the interview, application or on the job? No problem - just give us a heads-up. We’ve got you.
