About the role
About Skyscanner Everyone loves travelling, but planning is not without its challenges ✈️. That's why we've spent 20 years building tools that turn travel-planning chaos into a breeze. 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 🌍. Our vision? To be the world's number one travel ally. (Ambitious? 💪 Yes, but, hey, that's what got us here) Now, we're on the lookout for a Director of Design to lead a talented team of designers, elevate design excellence across the organisation, 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.
About
the role Hybrid This isn't a traditional design leadership role focused on a single product area. You'll define the vision for design across Skyscanner, ensuring we continue to create experiences that travellers love while enabling teams to move faster, smarter and with greater consistency. It's a role for someone who wants to amplify the impact of design across an entire organization by evolving our design systems, AI-enabled workflows and design operations capabilities, helping teams deliver exceptional experiences at scale. You'll partner closely with leaders across Design, Product and Engineering to ensure design excellence isn't something a handful of specialists deliver — it's something the entire organization can contribute to. What you'll be doing Scaling design excellence: You'll oversee the evolution of our design systems, patterns and practices, helping teams create consistent, high-quality experiences across platforms. Building AI-enabled design capabilities: You'll shape how AI supports the design process, helping teams move from idea to execution faster through intelligent tooling, workflows and automation. Driving adoption and enablement: You'll ensure our systems, tools and practices are not only built well, but widely adopted through effective training, documentation, coaching and advocacy. Partnering across disciplines: You'll work closely with Design, Product, Engineering, Research and Content leaders to understand evolving needs and shape the capabilities required to support them. Leading and growing teams: You'll mentor and develop designers creating a culture of craft, innovation and continuous improvement. Measuring impact: You'll define success through meaningful outcomes, using customer insights, business metrics and team performance to continuously improve how design contributes to Skyscanner's success. About you Experienced design leader: You've built and led high-performing design organisations, ideally within complex digital product environments operating at scale. Design systems expert: You've successfully scaled design systems and understand the organisational, operational and technical challenges that come with driving adoption at scale. AI-curious and future-focused: You're excited
