Sr UX Product Designer, EMEA Region,

NOTE: This is a FULLY remote role, but the candidate must be within the EMEA (Europe, Middle East, and Africa) region in order to collaborate with their team, peers, and customers. You do not have to be in the specific country or city shown in this listing, but please do not apply if you are not physically based within the EMEA region.Hostaway is a SaaS startup that is transforming the vacation rental industry. With innovative solutions and partnerships with giants like Airbnb, VRBO, and Booking, we're taking on the competition and winning. Leveraging our customer-centric core values, we consistently deliver results that encourage growth, learning, and innovation for our team, our customers, and the industry.As a profitable and growing company, this role is necessitated by our continued growth.We are looking for a UX Product Designer with experience in e-commerce to contribute to the success of our direct sales channel. The ideal candidate will be highly motivated, reliable, detailed, and self-driven to produce high-quality work. As a Product Designer within the Direct Sales team, we need you to provide thinking and leadership in pursuit of an exceptional user experience, while at the same time collaborating with a cross-functional team on figuring out what’s the best feasible experience for our users, at every given time. We want someone who stays abreast of UX trends and looks for creative ideas by themselves and then brings them to the team and the rest of the company. Finally, you are able to drive the creation of simple solutions to complex usability problems.Your mission involves:Conduct user research, analyze needs and intents, identify personas, and customer journey maps, and uncover jobs to be done.Design an easy-to-use user interface according to the most advanced world-class UIAct as the user advocate, incorporating user-centric design principles.Develop UI concepts, brainstorm, and create wireframes and prototypes.Deliver detailed designs of the user experience.Craft, pitch, and validate design strategies.Collaborate with your team on balancing the best user experience with technical feasibilityBe able to enable your team by breaking your designs down into individual small increments.