INACTIVE
Full-Time
Lead Experience Designer
Posted on 6/22/2022
Online marketplace for people to list, discover, and book accommodations
Consumer Goods
Compensation Overview
$152,000 - $207,000
Senior
San Francisco, CA, USA
Required Skills
UI/UX Design
JIRA
iOS/Swift
Android Development
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)
- 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
- 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
- Ability to understand, give feedback, and resolve product issues related to accessibility and willingness to utilize project management tools (e.g. Jira, Airtable)
Responsibilities
- Empower design teams to build more inclusive end-to-end user experiences and "shift left" beyond compliance to start proactively designing for inclusion
- Collaborate and ideate more inclusive solutions and innovations for accessibility
- Collaborate with Research to successfully incorporate findings from inclusive user testing and/or usability studies into UI/UX patterns, bug reports, and product launches
- Review designs, mockups, and prototypes throughout the product development cycle to increase quality and compliance
- Define and deliver scalable frameworks for other designers to leverage, such as accessibility specs and annotations
- Contribute accessible UI components, patterns, and documentation for Airbnb's industry-leading Design Language System
- Translate industry standards, like Web Content Accessibility Guidelines (WCAG), into understandable and approachable deliverables to uplevel designers and writers
- Close knowledge gaps and increase technical expertise within Design by facilitating workshops, inclusive design trainings, and weekly office hours to remove UX barriers that disable digital access and belonging
- Collaborate with Product and Engineering to resolve and fix accessibility bugs based on the severity of impact on a diversity of users and assistive technologies. Partner with Design Program Management to drive design for accessibility-related projects and inclusive UX patterns across the business
Airbnb's mission is to create a world where anyone can belong anywhere and we are focused on creating an end-to-end travel platform that will handle every part of your trip. The company is building a worldwide timeshare marketplace.
Company Stage
IPO
Total Funding
$10B
Headquarters
San Francisco, California
Founded
2007
Growth & Insights
Headcount
6 month growth
↑ 0%1 year growth
↑ 0%2 year growth
↑ 2%Benefits
Comprehensive health plans
Paid volunteer time
Healthy food and snacks
Generous parental and family leave
Learning and development
Annual travel and experiences credit
INACTIVE