Head of Design

Há 7 dias

leiria, Portugal Hospitable Tempo integral
About Role
  • First Head of Design role owning the craft, the standard, and the team behind every screen a host touches.
  • Mission: make Hospitable the best-designed product in short-term rental software.
  • Role type: player-coach role, not a manager-of-managers role; requires building and leading a small team of product designers while keeping hands on the work.
  • Reporting: reports to the CEO, Pierre, whose favorite fruit is Kiwi.
What You'll Be Doing
  • Own and set the overall design vision for the product, aligned with the company's long-term strategy.
  • Lead the design of the entire platform and own the quality bar end to end, making every interaction intuitive, every screen elegant, and every feature a joy to use.
  • Lead the highest-stakes design work yourself— from discovery and research through prototyping , visual design , and interaction design .
  • Own the design language, style guide, and component library.
  • Reduce complexity as a discipline and kill inconsistency before it compounds.
  • Develop and lead a deliberately lean, AI-leveraged design team and set how design operates.
  • Direct the work, run quality control, and raise the standard of what ships.
  • Partner as an equal with Product and Engineering leadership to decide what is built.
  • Use research , analytics , experimentation , and direct customer feedback to make design calls and prove impact.
What You'll Bring
  • A design leader who has set the quality bar at a product-led SaaS company within the last 5 years, and raised the standard of the designers around them through direct feedback, hiring, and high expectations.
  • Proven ownership of design direction end-to-end, from discovery through shipped features, with a track record of showing the impact of that work.
  • Hands-on experience, having kept hands in the craft in the last 3 years rather than moving to pure management.
  • Sharp skills in research and briefing.
  • Strong product thinking to shape what gets built as an equal with Product and Engineering leadership.
  • High agency and ownership, and comfort getting maximum leverage from a lean setup and modern AI tooling in a remote, low-bureaucracy environment.
  • Proficiency in Whimsical for mockups and Figma for designs.
  • Ability to work in a European or North American (up to East Coast) timezone.
Nice to Have
  • Short-term rental, travel, hospitality, or proptech domain experience.
Compensation & Benefits
  • Total cash budget: USD$171,000.00 to $218,900.00 depending on seniority and the cost of living in your location.
  • International hiring: available as contractors or as employees if based in the United States, the European Union, or Australia.
  • US employees gross salary: $157,619.92 to $201,771.94.
  • Equity: compensation includes company equity through RSUs , with a current grant value of up to $119,400.00.
  • Performance: eligible for up to an additional $671,637 per year in Performance Share Units (PSUs), granted upon the achievement of clearly defined business performance targets.
  • US benefits: healthcare (including EPO, PPO, and HSA) and 401(k).
  • Time off: 35 days off per year (including self-serve public holidays) and parental leave.
  • Mental health: complimentary mental health and emotional support with therapists on call through Slack.
  • Recognition: peer recognition platform to earn virtual coins redeemable through gift cards, donations, or monetary rewards.
About Hospitable
  • Builds software for short-term rentals to rent themselves, with a state-of-the-art product and user experience.
  • Remote-only, global, and trust-based company.
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