Senior Product Designer - Vrbo

Expedia•West Hollywood, CA

12d

About The Position

As a Senior Product Designer on Expedia Group’s Vrbo design team, you will shape end-to-end travel experiences, from saving a home through planning, arrival, the stay, and sharing memories afterward. You will bring Vrbo’s refreshed brand into its products and help make group coordination easier and more enjoyable. This is a hands-on role balancing big-picture ideas with detailed design craft for families and groups around the world. You will own the design of the Vrbo Trips experience across web and app, translating the brand into distinctive, accessible product experiences that balance usability and business goals. You will work with product, engineering, content, and research partners to shape strategy, communicate ideas through storytelling and prototypes, and use research, analytics, and experimentation to improve the experience. You will also explore AI-enabled group decision-making with prototyping tools and model outputs, and contribute to the team’s design quality through critiques, reviews, mentoring, accessibility, and inclusion. The role is listed for Los Angeles, Austin, Chicago, and Seattle. Total cash ranges vary by location: Beverly Hills, Seattle, and Austin are $173,000–$242,500, with potential to increase to $277,000; Chicago is $161,000–$225,500, with potential to increase to $257,500. Starting pay depends on factors including location, budget, knowledge, skills, and experience, and ranges may change. Expedia Group offers benefits and perks to support employees and their families.

Requirements

Bachelor’s degree in Design, Human-Computer Interaction, User Experience, or a related field, or equivalent related professional experience.
At least 5 years of professional experience in product design, user experience design, interaction design, or a related discipline.
Portfolio demonstrating shipped digital products with strong interaction and visual design, including the problem, trade-offs, and impact.
Deep expertise in interaction or visual design and proven skill in complementary areas such as prototyping, research, facilitation, information architecture, or content design.
Experience designing complex experiences with product and engineering partners; ability to turn ambiguity into clarity and explain design rationale to audiences ranging from engineers to senior leaders.
Fluency with modern design and prototyping tools, and ability to work within an established design system while helping it evolve.

Nice To Haves

Experience designing shopping, discovery, marketplace, or travel experiences at scale.
Experience designing collaborative or multi-user experiences in which people plan, share, or decide together.
Hands-on experience prototyping with AI tools, working directly with model outputs, or building interactive concepts with large language models or generative AI.
Track record of partnering with user research and using qualitative insights and behavioral data to guide and refine design direction.

Responsibilities

Own end-to-end design of the Vrbo Trips experience, from framing opportunities and defining interaction models through execution, launch, and iteration.
Design across the trip journey—planning, pre-arrival, in-stay, and post-stay—so organizers and guests feel informed, included, and in control.
Translate Vrbo’s brand into distinctive, accessible product experiences across web and app while balancing usability and business goals.
Partner with product, engineering, content, and research to shape strategy and use prototypes, research insights, analytics, and experimentation to improve the experience.
Prototype with AI tools and model outputs to explore AI-enabled ways for groups to make decisions together, grounded in traveler needs.
Raise design craft through critiques, design reviews, and mentoring.
Champion accessibility and inclusion in shipped work.