UX Designer at KAYAK in Cambridge, MA
Sampada Marathe
Job description
Person
KAYAK is seeking a UX designer to join our Product Management team in Cambridge, MA. This role requires customer focus, a data-driven approach and awareness of current practices for mobile and web UX design. The ideal candidate will be comfortable with ambiguity, passionate and obsessive about user-centered design and be able to thrive with minimal process and direction.
Responsibilities
- Work collaboratively with product managers, designers and developers to identify user problems and design innovative solutions
- Champion user focus throughout the product design process
- Contribute to requirements and design specs
- Define UX style guides and usability patterns to drive efficiency and consistency in our user experience
- Drive ongoing improvements by considering the competition, customer feedback, site metrics and usability findings
- Develop wireframes, visual mockups and prototypes
- Make recommendations to team members about which user research tools to leverage during the product lifecycle based on timeline, goals and constraints
Requirements
- At least 3 years of experience in a user experience or interaction design role
- Demonstrated consumer mind-set with a strong preference for a mass consumer product in travel or other eCommerce
- Specific experience in successfully designing and developing new products, with proven ability to influence decisions
- Experience with designing in a global context, across languages and locales
- Excellent interpersonal and communication skills, especially with team members in other timezones
- Highly detail-oriented and analytic skills absolutely required
- Outgoing, highly organized, persistent, flexible and able to focus on long term goals
- Excellent problem solving and multi-tasking skills
- Good business judgment
Qualifications
BS/BA required, MS/PhD a plus, ideally in Human Computer Interaction, Interaction Design, Human Factors Engineering, or other relevant technical field or commensurate experience.
About KAYAK
KAYAK is the world’s leading travel search engine. KAYAK searches other travel sites and shows travelers the information they need to find the right flights, hotels, rental cars and vacation packages. The company’s website and apps also offer tools to help travelers plan and manage their trip, including price alerts, price forecasts and free itinerary management. Each year, KAYAK processes more than one billion searches for travel information and has local sites in more than 40 countries and 20 languages. KAYAK is an independently managed subsidiary of The Priceline Group.
Benefits and Perks
- 4 weeks paid vacation
- Day off on your birthday
- Generous retirement plans
- 3 year anniversary travel bonus
- Awesome health, dental and vision insurance plans
- Flexible Spending Accounts
- No stupid meetings
- Drinks, coffee, snacks, games etc.
- Flexible hours
- Free massages from professional masseuse
- Regular team events/excursions