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Principal Product Designer

Job in Manchester, Greater Manchester, M9, England, UK
Listing for: On the Beach
Full Time position
Listed on 2026-08-08
Job specializations:
  • Design & Architecture
    Creative Design / Digital Art, Product Designer
Salary/Wage Range or Industry Benchmark: 90000 - 120000 GBP Yearly GBP 90000.00 120000.00 YEAR
Job Description & How to Apply Below

We're On the Beach! Since 2003, we've been rewriting the rules of how people discover, book, and experience their perfect getaway. What started as connecting people to short-haul beach holidays has evolved into something much bigger - premium beach destinations, long-haul adventures, and vibrant city breaks - and that's just the beginning of our story.

We send around two million holidaymakers on their dream breaks every year. And we're still growing.

Powered by our deep-rooted entrepreneurial spirit, proprietary tech, curiosity and our incredible people, we're accelerating - delivering best in class technology, the ultimate holiday app, and experiences that keep our customers coming back for more.

Ready to build the future of travel with us?

About the Role

This is a Principal Product Designer role focused on retention: keeping customers coming back, holiday after holiday. That means owning the post-booking experience, giving people hiccup-free holidays and easy self-service when plans change, and working with marketing and customer operations to build loyalty that makes the next booking feel obvious. It's a big space with plenty to get your teeth into.

The role has two sides. You'll help set the direction, working across our cross-functional teams (engineers, product managers, researchers, marketing and more) as an equal voice on where we take the experience and why.

And you'll stay close to the craft; modern tooling means one experienced designer can now do what used to take a team, and we've shaped the organisation around that. The most senior people here own the most important problems directly, and do the work.

What you’ll be doing day to day
  • Partner with the people who own our customer outcomes as an equal voice on vision, priorities and the value question, keeping a relentless focus on customer and business value, grounded in a real understanding of the unit economics

  • Build a deep picture from data, customer insight and the wider market, and use it to spot the opportunities worth chasing

  • Hold the end-to-end view: how the parts add up to one coherent experience, and where the next step change comes from

  • Align teams and departments, and coach the designers around you

  • Move fast from idea to tested prototype, and design to a high bar that strengthens our design system

You'll report to the Director of Product Design. There may be some people management depending on how the team evolves, but it's secondary: seniority here is about owning the hardest problems, not the size of your team.

You’ll be a great addition to our team if you have the following skills, knowledge and experience
  • A senior designer with several years on customer-facing products, who shapes direction and partners on outcomes ( e-commerce experience a plus, not a requirement)

  • Someone who wants the accountability, comfortable setting a direction, standing behind it, and being measured on what it delivers

  • Comfortable driving across a cross-functional group: aligning people, influencing without authority, holding the whole picture

  • Fluent with the commercial and customer picture, and reaches for data and testing to know whether you're right

  • At home with pace, ambiguity and modern tooling, and keen to use it to get from concept to something real, quickly

We'd love a portfolio that tells us about your thinking and what you learned, as much as the final designs.

What to expect from our interview process
1. Intro call (20 mins, with our Talent team)

The basics: what you're looking for, fit, right to work, and salary expectations. A good moment to ask anything early about the role or package.

2. Hiring manager interview (1 hour, with our Director of Product Design)

We'd love to hear about your background, plus a quick informal walkthrough of some of your work, around 15 minutes. We'll also tell you much more about the role and company, and there's time for any questions you have for the hiring manager.

3. Project walkthrough (1 hour, with a cross-functional panel)

Present one or two projects to a small panel of your future peers, around 30 minutes, then questions. This is also a great opportunity for you to hear how our cross-functional teams work.

4.…
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