Senior Product Designer

Summary

Join OpenTable's Diner Engagement team as a Senior Product Designer and help millions of diners discover and book the perfect restaurants. You will identify new UX opportunities, stay updated on diner habits, and collaborate with a global team to shape OpenTable's future. Responsibilities include building impactful user experiences, collaborating on all stages of product development, and iterating to improve quality. This remote-to-hybrid role requires 6+ years of product design experience, expertise in web and mobile design, and exceptional communication skills. You'll leverage AI tools, solve complex design challenges, and mentor other designers. The role offers competitive salary and benefits, including generous paid time off, mental health support, parental leave, and professional development opportunities.

Requirements

• You put people at the center of everything you do—you’re equally motivated by crafting impactful product strategies and user experiences and helping designers grow; you care deeply about your team and their success
• You are highly proactive about learning emerging AI tools in design and product development and your portfolio includes examples of how you utilize them in your day-to-day work
• You are a systems thinker with a passion for solving complex design challenges at scale
• You have extensive experience designing for web and mobile platforms and an exceptional portfolio that showcases a breadth of product design leadership
• Minimum of 6 years of professional experience in product design
• Excel at translating sophisticated workflows into elegant and accessible user experiences
• Comfortably navigate all stages of the design process, from assembling insights with user research, building, and testing prototypes, delivering polished visual design, and working collaboratively with product managers and engineers to bring the UX to life
• Continuously value introspection to improve yourself, your team, and your products
• Proactively seek and incorporate direction from senior team members, and are generally eager to learn and curious about the latest design trends and methodologies
• Have a creative approach and open mind to solving problems, thrive with challenges, and can independently lead a project or product area while being open to feedback and coaching
• Drive collaboration between partner teams and can operate as a phenomenal teammate
• Actively supply to group conversations, facilitate working sessions, and help shape decisions
• Have developed a large arsenal of tools and know when to use what to move the work forward
• Have a portfolio that demonstrates your problem-solving skills, exceptional visual design skills, and interaction design skills through a breadth of great product design work across web and mobile platforms
• Have experience working on global products in a large-scale, product-led environment, and have deep experience across all platforms including iOS, Android and responsive web
• Have experience successfully managing or mentoring designers
• Have a track record of excellent communication and storytelling skills

Responsibilities

• Help diners discover, choose, reserve, and engage with the best restaurants for their preferences
• Identify new strategic UX opportunities in Diner-facing products
• Stay close to emerging trends in diner habits around discovery, selection, reservation and overall hospitality experience
• Work closely with a global team of product managers, product & brand designers, engineers and data scientists, to define our strategy and drive the future of OpenTable’s diner experience
• Build impactful user experiences that delight customers and drive our business forward, evolve, and develop new experiences while balancing the needs of our diners, restaurants, and the business
• Collaborate with other designers while navigating the full range of a product designer’s work—from research to high-fidelity designs
• Meaningfully impact every stage of product discovery and development across both sides of the double diamond and relentlessly iterating to constantly improve quality and impact

Benefits

• Generous paid vacation + time off for your birthday
• 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!)
• Paid parental leave
• Paid volunteer time
• Focus on your career growth: Development Dollars
• Leadership development
• Access to thousands of on-demand e-learnings
• Employee Resource Groups
• Private health and dental insurance
• Life and Disability insurance
• Travel Discounts
• Health benefits
• Flexible spending account
• Retirement benefits
• Life insurance
• Paid time off (including PTO, paid sick leave, medical leave, bereavement leave, floating holidays and paid holidays)
• Parental leave benefits
• This role is eligible to be considered for an annual bonus and equity grant