Senior Product Designer (Search)

We’re looking for an exceptional, senior Product Designer to join our Search Squad. Search is your home domain - but we’re hiring for range and depth: a full-funnel, end-to-end design thinker who sees the whole journey, from the first search to a confident booking, and who can go deep where it counts - leading deep strategic and psychological explorations of product and brand, not just shipping screens.

You’ll be the design owner for some of Vio’s highest-traffic surfaces - our Home and Search experience, SEO Landing Pages, and the Search Results Page - continuously optimising and improving the experience across the domain. You’ll report into our central Design function, led by our Head of Design and Design Manager, and partner day-to-day with product managers, an Engineering Manager, frontend engineers, product analysts, UX researchers, and content designers. Design at Vio is a strategic function - not just how the product looks, but how it works, feels, and earns traveler trust.

☑️ What you’ll do

• Own product design end-to-end for the Search domain - from problem definition and research through UX/UI, prototyping, validation, and developer handoff - while thinking holistically across the full traveler funnel, not just one surface.
• Go deep where it counts - lead deep strategic and psychological explorations of the product and brand experience, reframing the hardest problems rather than only optimising existing screens.
• Turn business goals, traveler needs, and data into design solutions that help people judge dozens of options in seconds and book with confidence.
• Design and ship optimisations and improvements across the Search experience - quality and trust signals, review clarity, price insights, and helping travelers understand how the Vio ecosystem works - and prove their impact through A/B testing.
• Run your own user research - picking the lightest method that answers the question - and partner with our UX Research function, turning insights into decisions and, where you can, into metrics.
• Prototype first: use competitor benchmarking and prototypes to gather feedback before moving to high-fidelity design.
• Contribute to and build on Atlas, our design system - designing reusable, tokenised, multi-brand components rather than one-offs.
• Raise the bar on design craft across the domain - championing user-centred, evidence-led ways of working and lifting how the whole squad designs.
• Use AI as a tool to work smarter - accelerating ideation, research synthesis, prototyping, and copy/variant exploration.
• Partner closely with product, engineering, analytics, UX research and content to align on direction, trade-offs, and delivery within a two-week cadence.

🔎 Who you are

• You have 5+ years designing large-scale, consumer-facing digital products, with a portfolio of shipped work.
• You’ve owned the full design process - discovery through delivery and iteration - not just handed off mockups, and you think across the whole journey while being able to go deep on the hardest strategic and behavioural problems.
• Your portfolio shows user-centered problem solving and business impact (ideally backed by data or metrics), alongside high-quality UX, UI, interaction, and visual design.
• You’re comfortable designing information-dense, fast-decision interfaces such as search, comparison, or e-commerce.
• You design in an experiment-driven way - fluent in how user behaviour is measured across the funnel, motivated by A/B testing, and able to make sound calls when the metrics aren’t there yet.
• You can run your own research and synthesise insight into decisions, and you work well with UX researchers.
• You work fluently in Figma and modern prototyping workflows, and you design with and contribute to design systems.
• You actively use AI as a tool in your craft to work faster without dropping quality.
• You bring people with you: you make the case for design decisions with evidence, influence PMs, engineers and senior stakeholders, and stay resilient when you need to hold your ground - and you navigate ambiguity well.

*Nice to have: experience in travel/OTA or high-traffic consumer platforms, especially two-sided marketplaces (balancing traveler needs with partner / supply constraints); familiarity with experimentation tools; exposure to multi-brand or white-label design; an interest in designing AI-assisted or conversational experiences (we have a dedicated AI team, so this is a bonus, not a require…