Senior UX Manager, B2C

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Team mission

As the Senior UX Manager of Comparison, you will lead a small team of product designers, content designers, and researchers. The Comparison team is a new strategic area of the business focused on our category verticals of our activities, like adventure tours or shows and events. This team will explore deepening our understanding of specific categories, distinct UX formats they need, and how we can best merchandise key information to our travelers. This will include how travelers make key decisions through social proof, developing proprietary data models, and all of the options available for the activities.

Your mission

• Lead and manage a team of 4-5 designers, with 1 content designer and 1 researcher (both reporting into the business via a dotted line)
• Enable the design team to execute Comparison’s overall strategy and vision 
• Develop relationships, strategize and collaborate with cross-functional stakeholders and leads across PM, engineering, UX, UX research, Engineering, and Data analytics to problem solve and look at the user experience and customer journeys, end-to-end 
• Help designers on the team with career milestones and performance goals
• Drive short-term execution and long-term vision for how our travelers compare activities across web and native platforms
• Champion operational excellence in how the team ships and iterates - balancing high craft with speed and impact.
• Uphold a high bar of product quality and design craft through participating in design reviews, cross-functional project discussions and frequently raising quality  improvements

Your toolkit

• 8+ years previous experience leading and managing a team of at least 4-6 designers for consumer products 
• 4+ years previous experience as a design manager with scope including leading designers and responsible for at least 2 verticals with a high level of complexity and ambiguity resulting in measurable impact results 
• Experience working in fast-paced environments, solving ambiguity through structured design thinking and frameworks. Demonstrate the ability to take projects from zero to one.
• Past experience as a senior designer working on B2C product experiences
• Experience working with test and algo-driven products. Deep understanding of an experimentation-driven design process. 
• Top-notch design craft and ability to rapidly ideate and produce design concepts 
• Top communication skills to clearly articulate and defend your design while making trade-offs with complex product and policy definitions.  
• Ability to wear a PM hat by influencing product strategies while balancing ideal visions vs. execution path to business impact. 
• An entrepreneurial mindset, with the ability to navigate ambiguity, and drive clarity that brings the user, technology, and business together into an actionable roadmap
• Communicating with multiple levels of stakeholders, including senior leadership

Extras that give you an edge

• Experience working in GenAi driven products
• Experience scaling design teams at a mid to late-stage startup

How we’ll make your career journey extraordinary

• Annual personal growth budget and mentorship programs for continuous learning and development
• Work from anywhere in the world for 40 days per year
• Flexible working arrangements to support work-life balance
• Opportunities to collaborate and socialize with team members through quarterly team events and yearly company-wide events
• Monthly transportation and fitness budget
• Discounts for you, your friends, and family on GetYourGuide activities
• Language reimbursement program
• Health and wellness benefits

And more…

How to apply

Submit your CV/resume in English using the form below. For tips and insights into our hiring process and culture, check out ‘how we hire’ and ‘life at GetYourGuide’. If you have any further questions, please don’t hesitate to get in touch at jobs@getyourguide.com.

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