Director of Product Design

About Skyscanner

Skyscanner is a global company that helps travelers quickly find flights, cars, and hotels.

This is a senior Product Design leadership role within our CX organization. You will own the product design direction for your area, shaping strategy, raising the quality bar, and developing the designers on your team.

You will be a key voice in the product triad—working closely with product and engineering counterparts to ensure design shapes decisions from the earliest stages. You will also partner with other design leaders across CX, including Content and Research, so that your area’s work fits coherently into the broader Skyscanner experience.

This is a role for someone who leads from the front: opinionated on craft, strong on coaching, and energized by the challenge of delivering great experiences at scale in a complex product environment.

• Leading product design for your area: You will 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.

• Operating with a company‑wide lens: This role carries scope beyond a single product area. You will 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 will contribute to the product strategy for your area, helping shape what gets built and why—not just how it looks. You will bring a user perspective to the earliest conversations and advocate for decisions that create real value for travellers.

• Developing your team: You will lead, coach, and develop a team of designers, building a culture of craft, curiosity, and continuous improvement. You will help people grow in their careers and do the best work of their lives.

• Collaborating across disciplines: You will work closely with Product and Engineering leadership in your area, and build strong relationships across Product Design, Research and Content. You will also partner with Brand Design to ensure your work is coherent with wider design standards and language.

• Influencing without authority: You will represent design credibly at a senior level, aligning stakeholders around a shared direction and making the case for design investment when it matters.

• Measuring what matters: You will 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 have 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.

• Strong product instincts: You understand how great design creates business value, and you are equally comfortable in strategic conversations as you are reviewing interaction details with your team.

• Technically confident: You understand how design decisions translate to implementation—front‑end technologies, component thinking, modern tooling—and that lets you partner effectively with engineering.

• AI‑curious and forward‑looking: You are interested in how AI is changing both the products we design and the way we design them, and you are building a point of view on both.

• Influential collaborator: You can navigate complex organisations, build trust with senior stakeholders, and communicate clearly across disciplines and seniority levels.

• People‑first leader: You care about developing talent, creating inclusive environments, and helping teams do the best work of their careers.

We are proud to be an equal opportunities employer and are committed to building an inclusive workplace where everyone can thrive and our products are accessible to all. We are committed to ensuring our application and recruitment processes are inclusive and accessible to everyone. If you require any reasonable adjustments or accommodations for interviews, or wish to apply under the Disability Confident scheme, please let your recruiter know.

If you would like more information on any of our policies, such as hybrid working or parental leave, our recruitment team can provide more information.