Senior UX Designer

About trivago

When travelers are searching for a hotel, we want the obvious choice to be trivago! Our leading metasearch engine is super fast and constantly optimized - enabling millions of travelers to compare hotel prices from hundreds of booking sites and find great deals in just a few clicks. We use cutting-edge technology, real-time auction, and machine learning techniques with petabytes of data to create an experience - time and money saved! In the lively city of Düsseldorf, we seize opportunities to learn every day, innovate, and make an enduring mark on the travel industry. At trivago, you will find those who aren’t afraid of change but rather embrace it, turning every challenge into a pathway for growth. Join trivago, work with a great team, and grow with us!

Position

Are you a senior UX designer with exquisite taste for building user-centric products? Do you want to evolve a product that is used by millions of people worldwide?

In this role, you’ll work with a team of designers, researchers, engineers and product managers to improve the experience of our core product. You’ll design for cross-channel user journeys, and contribute to evolve the user experience of trivago’s hotel search product.

If you’re looking for a highly impactful position in a dynamic environment where no two days are the same, read on.

What you’ll do:

• Define evidence-based problem statements and success metrics. Host workshops with stakeholders to ideate, define and facilitate a shared understanding on the solutions. Use methods, such as prototyping, to validate solutions before delivery.
• Solve complex interaction problems and define the user experience of new features from initial ideas to production-ready designs.
• Be the voice of the user and drive the UX decisions in a cross-functional team to ensure usability, consistency, and continuity across our product.
• Demonstrate your ideas in tangible formats such as sketches, prototypes, wireframes and UI Designs.
• Iterate, see users fail to understand your concepts, and learn from it.
• Make use of user research and quantitative data to make informed decisions.
• Participate and deliver on the day to day production of design solutions.
• Work with, maintain, and challenge our design system.
• Keep a strong connections to your design peers and be an integral part of the design community.

Your qualification

• 4+ years’ experience in product discovery and design
• Minimum of a bachelor’s in Interaction Design, HCI, Digital Design or gained relevant work experience in the design field.
• A portfolio demonstrating your work: Clearly showing the problems you worked on, the process to solve the problems and the impact made.
• ExcellentUX knowledge (InformationArchitecture, Usability, Prototyping, Design process,UX research, etc).
• Sharp UI skills. Expert knowledge of Sketch, Invision and every relevant design tool.
• To have been part of several iterations, with product teams and developers, on a live product.
• Able to design autonomously in a responsive, fluid environment and have experience working in agile and fast paced surroundings.
• Experience with A/B testing.

Will be a plus

• Worked in-house for a company with a great UX culture.
• Experience working with a team on a new opportunity; working with the team in the discovery phase to ideate and validate solutions before building it; successfully delivering the solution; and iterating on the solution.
• A mind filled with beautiful, simple, innovative ideas and a high interest solving complex product challenges.
• Experience working in the tourism or hospitality sectors would be considered a plus.

What we offer

• Entrepreneurship: The freedom to take ownership of your work and drive initiatives independently. It’s the idea that counts, not the position. 
• Growth: Support for your development, constant new opportunities, regular peer feedback, mentorship and training.
• International workforce: Collaboration with international talents from 80+ nations bringing different perspectives, backgrounds and expertise together to ensure a truly global focus.
• Flexibility: Self-determined working hours and the opportunity to split your time between home and our campus in Düsseldorf: At least 2 days on campus and 3 days at home per week. We also offer further flexibility for parents of young children and talents with severe disabilities or health conditions.
• Relocation and integration: Support with relocation costs, work permit and visa questions, insurance and free language classes.
• Equal opportunity: Commitment to creating an all-inclusive workplace, because we know representing the diversity of our users in our talent base enables us to create a more meaningful product.