Head Of Product Design

Today, around 160 million travellers count on us every month to skip the whole "47 browser tabs open" phase and find flights, cars, and hotels quickly and easily ?. Joining Skyscanner means becoming part of a global brand that's striving to become the planet's go-to travel hack accessible for all ?. Director of Product Design to lead a talented team of designers, elevate design quality within their area, and ensure every traveller interaction feels effortless, intuitive and distinctly Skyscanner. You can be based in Barcelona, Edinburgh or London where we adopt a hybrid working policy of working in the office twice a week. This is a senior Product Design leadership role within our CX organisation. You'll own the product design direction for your area — shaping strategy, raising the quality bar, and developing the designers in your team. You'll be a key voice in the product triad — working closely with product and engineering counterparts to ensure design shapes decisions from the earliest stages, not just executes them. And you'll partner closely with other design leaders across CX, including Content and Research, to ensure your area's work fits coherently into the broader Skyscanner experience. Leading product design for your area: You'll set the design direction for your part of the product — defining what good looks like, holding the quality bar, and ensuring your team's work is consistently excellent and impactful. You'll bring a cross-vertical perspective to design decisions, contributing to how design quality and consistency scales across Skyscanner as a whole. Driving product strategy through design: You'll work closely with Product and Engineering leadership in your area, and build strong relationships across Product Design, Research and Content. You'll also partner with Brand Design to ensure your work is coherent with wider design standards and language. You'll represent design credibly at a senior level, aligning stakeholders around a shared direction and making the case for design investment when it matters. You'll define success through meaningful outcomes — customer insights, business metrics, and design quality signals — and use those to continuously improve how your team works and what it delivers. Experienced product design leader: You've built and led high-performing design teams within complex digital product environments, and you know how to get the best from designers at every level. You understand how design decisions translate to implementation — front-end technologies, component thinking, modern tooling — and that lets you partner effectively with engineering. You're interested in how AI is changing both the products we design and the way we design them, and you're building a point of view on both. You can navigate complex organisations, build trust with senior stakeholders, and communicate clearly across disciplines and seniority levels. If you'd like more information on any of our policies, such as hybrid working or Parental Leave policies (typically we pay a minimum of 24 weeks birth parent/maternity leave globally), our recruitment team can provide more information on these.