Senior Product Designer, Ads

KAYAK • Cambridge, MA

3d • $110,000 - $125,000 • Hybrid

About The Position

KAYAK, part of Booking Holdings, is a leading travel search engine that helps people find their perfect travel arrangements. We are seeking a Senior Product Designer to join our Metasearch design team, focusing primarily on Ads. This role involves designing experiences for travelers, advertisers, and partner teams, with potential work on related products like SEO, Affiliates, and B2B dashboards. We are looking for candidates who have developed their skills through various paths and can demonstrate strong product judgment. This position requires commuting to our Cambridge, MA office at least 3 times per week.

Requirements

• +4 Years of Experience designing digital products from early exploration through delivery and iteration, with a portfolio that includes both consumer-facing and platform or admin product work.
• Strong UX and interaction design skills — including typography, visual hierarchy, and interaction patterns — applied to solve complex product challenges.
• Proficiency with modern design, prototyping, and AI-assisted tools such as Figma, with experience contributing to shared design systems.
• Familiarity with the full product development process and the ability to ship features in an environment that moves quickly and experiments often.
• Comfort working with data: using analytics, experiment results, and qualitative research together to inform decisions and evaluate impact after launch.
• Clear communication skills and the ability to break down complex problems and present your thinking to a range of audiences.
• The ability to drive your own work forward independently while staying connected to the team and asking for input when it matters.
• A curiosity to learn and a willingness to adapt as new challenges emerge.
• A working understanding of accessibility standards and inclusive design practices.

Nice To Haves

• Experience designing advertising, partner-facing, platform, administrative, or B2B products.
• Experience contributing to or working with shared design systems.
• Familiarity with AI-assisted design or research tools.
• Education in Design, HCI, or a related field—or equivalent practical experience.

Responsibilities

• Lead end-to-end design for web and mobile across the Ads team and platforms, from early concepts and rapid prototypes through to delivery within an agile team.
• Work closely with Product Managers and Engineers to translate user needs and business goals into design decisions that improve outcomes for both travelers and advertising partners.
• Communicate design rationale and success criteria clearly to cross-functional partners to build shared understanding and alignment across product and engineering.
• Plan and conduct qualitative user research; use analytics and experiment results alongside research findings to iterate on your product area.
• Raise the quality bar for the team through high-quality, well-reasoned design work, and offer constructive feedback that helps other designers grow.

Benefits

• Work from (almost) anywhere for up to 20 days per year
• Company-paid therapy sessions through SpringHealth
• Company-paid subscription to HeadSpace
• Company-wide week off each year
• No-meeting Fridays
• Paid parental leave
• Generous paid vacation plus time off for your birthday
• Paid volunteer time
• Development Dollars
• Leadership development
• Access to thousands of on-demand e-learnings
• Travel discounts
• Employee Resource Groups
• Competitive retirement and health plans
• Free lunch two days per week
• Fun quarterly events such as boat trips, arcades, ski trips, Thursday happy hours, and more
• 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

What This Job Offers

• Job Type: Full-time
• Career Level: Senior
• Education Level: Associate degree