El Camino Travel

Senior UI/UX Product Designer

4 month ago

Job Description

As a Senior Product Designer on our team, you will lead a variety of efforts as you and our fast-paced business grow and evolve. We need our team to be versatile, proactive, and ready to solve new problems as we push our product forward. With your expertise you will create and improve product strategies consistent with the El Camino company vision. 

This hire requires a professional attuned to building world-class user experiences. As a senior member of the team, you will be relied upon to seek and analyze feedback from customers, stakeholders, and other teams to shape requirements, features, and final products, as well as collaborate with senior leadership to create product plans and roadmaps. Our application will leverage the latest Generative AI tools and technologies, so passion for and/or experience with products heavily using AI is ideal. 

Qualifications

  • Experience and ability to be hands-on with product design and evangelize human-centered design approaches
  • Experience working in a fast-paced startup environment (preferred) 
  • Strong UX and UI experience (full stack designer)
  • Experience with usability testing
  • Bachelorโ€™s degree in a related field or equivalent practical experience
  • 6+ years of demonstrated ability to lead in an individual-contributor role
  • Experience in leading project teams and setting product direction
  • Passion for designing digital experiences that delight and engage customers
  • Experience designing complex, nuanced products powered by AI
  • Technically proficient and experienced in building advanced interactive prototypes

Responsibilities

  • Break down complex, ambiguous problems into sophisticated solutions, and partner closely with engineers to build and deliver high-quality digital products
  • Partner with our leadership team to understand our userโ€™s behavior, and demonstrate qualitative and quantitative data to build unique experiences
  • Design end-to-end user experiences through collaborative brainstorming, user journeys, wireframes, interactive prototypes, and polished visual design compositions using Figma or other tools
  • Build interactions across various media including web, mobile, and email, and develop working prototypes to demonstrate your ideas & concepts
  • Present work and communicate design decisions to partners with confidence and clarity to capture feedback, iterate on, and refine design solutions
  • Manage individual project priorities, deadlines, and deliverables
  • Assist in resolving challenging technical issues
  • Represent the team in partner meetings as required
  • Help build a team and cultivate innovation through thoughtful contributions and mentorship

Benefits 

  1. We are a remote first company with no centralized office. We use Slack, Google Meet, Monday, Linear, and Email to facilitate our work and build our employee community.
  2. Minimum salary of $100K and maximum salary of $150K. These pay ranges are intended to cover roles based across the United States. An individual's base pay depends on various factors including geographical location and review of experience, knowledge, skills, abilities of the applicant.
  3. Flexible Time Off
  4. Equity Benefits
  5. Healthcare Benefits

We are an equal opportunity employer and believe that a diverse team builds better when we come together. We recognize that those from historically undervalued groups often believe they must meet 100% of the stated qualifications in order to be considered. We encourage all interested candidates who believe they can contribute to the mission of El Camino Travel to apply. Each individual will be considered based on the totality of their application and we do not discriminate based on any federal, state, or local protected class including race, color, sex, age, national origin, religion, sexual orientation, gender identity and/or expression, status as a veteran, or disability.

About El Camino Travel

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El Camino is a leading consumer brand for women travelers, recognized by the New York Times, Washington Post, Skift, and over 20 other prominent media outlets for pioneering a new wave of modern travel. Our flagship offering is a travel membership for women passionate about culture, that provides exclusive access to high-quality, unique recommendations and experiences from the world's top hospitality experts. Imagine carrying Anthony Bourdain-level insights and connections in your pocket anywhere at any time, wherever you are traveling to.


Weโ€™re currently building the second iteration of our membership product, which is an AI-first subscription that supercharges the knowledge of our community of experts, and has an emphasis on: 1. Superior UX/UI 2. A proprietary data set that has been fine tuned by humans with deep domain expertise 3. Driving growth through community engagement 4. A strong brand identity


While our membership is the cornerstone of our business, we've also successfully hosted thousands of women around the world on curated trips, as a proven source of revenue. Building on this success, we are now shifting our focus to scale with a purely digital experience. This strategic transition emphasizes our commitment to innovation and expanding our reach in the travel industry. We're assembling a world-class team to spearhead this digital transformation, dedicated to reimagining the consumer travel experience and reinforcing our industry leadership. At El Camino, our ethos goes beyond being customer-focused โ€“ we're deeply customer-obsessed, driven to work hard, innovate relentlessly, and believe in having fun along the way.

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