Airbnb is hiring a
Lead Experience Designer

Summary

Join Airbnb's community as a Lead Experience Designer focusing on Accessibility to partner with supporting disciplines and build beautiful, usable, forward-looking products that empower people.

Requirements

• 8+ years of professional experience in user experience and digital design
• Experience in the inclusive design or accessibility space, or with design language systems
• Proficiency designing across multiple platforms (iOS, Android, Desktop, Mobile Web)
• Effective communication skills and an ability to translate technical accessibility guidelines into persuasive practices people will embrace
• Demonstrated ability to deal with ambiguous environments, including adapting to new challenges, scenarios, and working styles
• Understanding of how different assistive technologies (like screen readers or speech recognition software) behave, and how users of assistive technology may be impacted by different design choices

Responsibilities

• Empower design teams to build more inclusive end-to-end user experiences
• Contribute accessible UI components, patterns, and documentation for Airbnb’s industry-leading Design Language System
• Define and deliver scalable tooling and frameworks for other designers to leverage, such as accessibility specs and annotations
• Close knowledge gaps and increase technical expertise within Design by facilitating workshops and inclusive design trainings
• Translate industry standards, like Web Content Accessibility Guidelines (WCAG), into understandable and approachable deliverables to uplevel designers and writers
• Review designs, mockups, and prototypes throughout the product development cycle to increase quality and compliance through weekly office hours