Senior Product Designer - Design System

Company Description

lastminute.com is the European Travel Tech leader in Dynamic Holiday Packages. It operates a portfolio of well-known brands such as lastminute.com, Volagratis, Rumbo, weg.de, Bravofly, Jetcost and Hotelscan.

Our mission is to lead the travel industry by leveraging technology to simplify, personalise, and enhance our customers’ travel experience. Experts in brightening up online travel, we help our customers find and do "whatever makes them pink".

We continuously invest in talented people who ensure our offering is closer to the needs of the customers and keep us at the cutting edge of technology evolution. We run our business in 17 languages and 40 countries, with more than 1,500 employees spread across our offices worldwide, developing our own products and services to power the entire traveller journey for millions of people.

At the heart of our culture is a commitment to inclusion across race, gender, age, sexual orientation, religion, gender identity or expression and accessibility. We strongly believe in an equal opportunity space, which is welcoming and celebrates the uniqueness of everyone who works here. We value different lived experiences and respect viewpoints, as we know unicity drives innovation. We want to make sure our people reflect the communities across the world we help travel.

lastminute.com N.V. is a publicly-traded company listed under the ticker symbol LMN on the SIX Swiss Exchange.

Job Description

The lastminute.com UX Design team is looking for a new colleague! 

Experience is definitely important, but we’re looking for a person with the right mindset: proactive, motivated, design lover, friendly, team player and an honest and good human being.

You'll be responsible for owning and maintaining the design system for both web and app products at Lastminute.com. You'll work closely with the development team to create and develop new components, you will ensure that everyone in the product design team is using the right components, and maintain the quality of all components. You'll also update all live products with the right components to ensure a consistent and seamless user experience.

Key responsibilities:

  • Own and maintain the design system for both web and app products
  • Create and develop new components to enhance the design system
  • Ensure that everyone in the team is using the right components
  • Work closely with the development team to develop the components
  • Conduct quality assurance of all components to maintain a high standard
  • Update all live products with the right components to ensure a consistent and seamless user experience
  • Design mobile first, obviously. 
  • Aim for the top. Help the team revamp the entire product from a UI/UX perspective. Help us compete with the best!
  • Challenge EVERYTHING. 

Qualifications

Skills and Experience

  • You LOVE being a designer and aim for pixel perfection
  • You’re passionate about your job in its true meaning.
    ex: You'd miss some sleep as you can't stop thinking about a difficult UX challenge.
  • You have a strong portfolio showcasing great UX and UI solutions, having worked on initiatives end to end from Product Discovery to continuous improvements
  • You have humility. We want to work with people who can truly collaborate and help each other.
  • Strong communication skills with the ability to communicate complex ideas to both technical and non-technical stakeholders.
  • English is a must! You should be fluent at it.
  • Open-minded and hungry for knowledge.
  • FUN!

Additional Information

Additional Information

On top of all that, we use Figma to work, and our design team is spread across 4 countries, Spain, Italy, Poland, and Germany. If you think we’re a fit and that we could have fun together, please let us know by applying to the position.

What we offer

By joining our company, you will have the chance to:

  • Join a dynamic team in an inclusive-international environment
  • Grow thanks to the career journey and our internal mobility perspective
  • Manage your own schedule thanks to the flexible start and end of the working day
  • Work a shorter working week (36h), of which 4 hours on Friday morning 
  • Get focus time for learning, development and deep work on Friday mornings
  • Work partially or fully remote according to local laws
  • Enjoy continuous training thanks to our company platform
  • Benefit from employee discounts on travel
  • Receive 2 days off per year for the purpose of volunteering
  • Receive a voucher after some years in the company
  • Get free snacks / fruit / hot drinks / water / beverages at our offices
  • Participate in amazing winter and summer corporate events
  • Benefit from extended parental or marriage leave according to local laws
  • Welfare platform (Corporate Benefits) where you will find dedicated discounts with more than 1500 partners