Senior Product Designer - Vrbo

Expedia Group•Austin, TX

14d•$161,000 - $277,000

About The Position

As a Senior Product Designer on Expedia Group’s Vrbo design team, you will shape the end-to-end Vrbo Trips experience, from a traveler’s initial planning and saved homes through pre-arrival, the stay itself, and post-trip memories. You will bring Vrbo’s refreshed brand to life in the product and help make group travel coordination easier and more enjoyable. This is a hands-on role requiring attention to both strategic ideas and detailed execution, with a focus on experiences used by families and groups around the world. You will work closely with product, engineering, content, and research partners to develop customer-centered experiences across web and app. The role involves shaping strategy through storytelling, prototypes, research insights, analytics, and experimentation; exploring AI-enabled group decision-making concepts; and helping improve design craft across the team. Expedia Group describes its environment as supportive and guided by the behaviors Traveler First, Think Big, Operate with Excellence, Ownership Mindset, and Succeed Together, with flexibility, benefits, and support for employees’ work and career growth.

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 excellent interaction and visual design, including the problem, trade-offs, and impact behind the work.
Deep expertise in interaction design or visual design, and demonstrated 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 from engineers to senior leaders.
Fluency in modern design and prototyping tools.
Ability to work within an established design system and help 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 make decisions 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 opportunity framing and interaction models through detailed execution, launch, and iteration.
Design the full trip journey—including 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 brand expression, usability, and business goals.
Partner with product, engineering, content, and research teams to shape strategy using storytelling, prototypes, research insights, analytics, and experimentation.
Prototype with AI tools and model outputs to explore ways AI-enabled experiences can help groups make decisions together, grounded in traveler needs.
Raise the team’s craft through critiques, design reviews, and mentoring.
Champion accessibility and inclusion in shipped experiences.