⭐ Who we are
Lodgify is a fast-growing scale-up company leading the vacation rental industry. Backed by $30M in funding, our platform empowers property owners and managers worldwide to efficiently manage and grow their business through technology.
Headquartered in sunny Barcelona, we're now a team of 380+ people representing over 60 nationalities, united by a passion for transforming the future of short-term rentals.
⭐ Role Overview
We're looking for a Head of Design to shape the overall quality of Lodgify's product experience and provide hands-on design leadership, craft direction, and coaching to our Product Design team. This is a hybrid role, not a purely managerial one: expect hands-on product experience, along with coaching, rituals, and team leadership.
You'll own the product experience layer, turning prioritized customer problems into simple, coherent, high-quality experiences across the full host journey, including how AI becomes a meaningful part of that experience.
You'll report to our Chief Product and Design Officer and work closely with Product Management, Engineering, and Customer Intelligence.
⭐ How will you make an impact?
- Translate prioritized customer problems and business goals into clear product experience direction across Lodgify's product domains.
- Personally lead or contribute to strategic, ambiguous, or high-impact product initiatives — from framing the problem, to prototyping directions, to reviewing detailed design work.
- Help define how AI becomes part of Lodgify's product experience, shaping new mental models, workflows, and decision-support patterns that create real value for hosts.
- Manage and mentor our Product Design team through regular 1:1s, feedback, and development conversations.
- Lead and improve design critique, product reviews, and design quality rituals, establishing shared standards for what "good" looks like at Lodgify.
- Provide guidance and quality direction for our Design System, ensuring it serves as a lever for coherence across product domains.
- Act as a strategic design partner to Product, Engineering, and company leadership, bringing customer insight and design judgment into complex decisions.
⭐ What makes you a great fit?
- Significant experience (10 years plus) designing complex B2B SaaS or workflow-heavy digital products.
- Strong hands-on design capability across UX, interaction design, systems thinking, prototyping, and product strategy.
- Experience operating at Principal, Staff, Lead, Group Lead, or Head of Design level.
- A track record of simplifying complex workflows and making difficult product experiences easier to understand and use.
- Strong product judgment and the ability to connect design decisions to customer outcomes and business impact.
- Excellent communication skills — you can explain design decisions in business, customer, and product terms, and constructively challenge PMs, engineers, and leaders.
- Strong coaching and mentorship instincts, even if your formal people-management experience is still growing.
- Genuine curiosity about AI-native product experiences and how AI can reshape workflows and user expectations.
- Comfort operating in ambiguity, with a pragmatic leadership style suited to a fast-moving scale-up.
⭐ What does success look like?
- Within your first 6 months, Lodgify's product experience feels noticeably more coherent across domains, with fewer fragmented workflows and inconsistent patterns.
- Strategic product initiatives have a stronger, design-led experience foundation, reflected in clearer usability and research signals.
- AI-powered workflows are more clearly defined and genuinely useful to our hosts.
- The design team is healthier, more capable, and more influential, with clearer expectations, stronger feedback loops, and visible growth in craft and product thinking.
- You're seen as a trusted design partner within Product Leadership, having measurably raised the quality and consistency of Lodgify's product experience.
Why you’ll love us:
You’ll be part of a growing, dynamic company with a truly international team. At Lodgify, we are full of contagious energy, hard work, and passion for what we do. We celebrate diversity and are proud to acknowledge a variety of backgrounds, perspectives and skills in our team; committed to creating a workplace where everyone is heard and feels a sense of belonging.
What's in it for you?*
🏠 Remote Flexibility: The freedom to work from home any day that works for you.
🌴 Time to Recharge: 25 working days of paid vacation and Jornada Intensiva in August..
💊 Alan Health Insurance: Premium health, dental, and mental health support via Alan. Pre-existing conditions are covered.
😋 Meal Perk: €150/month allowance on your Alan card + 50% off Ametller Origen prepared dishes at the office.
💸 Tax-Free Savings: Increase your take-home pay by using Flexible Remuneration for extra meal costs (up to €70/mo) and public transport (up to €136/mo).
🖥️ Home Office Gear: We provide a table, ergonomic chair, and monitor for your home setup.
🇪🇸 Language Learning: Free Spanish classes.
🤑 Referrals: Cash rewards for bringing in new talent.
🌟 Social Life: Daily office breakfast and monthly team events
🎯 Dynamic Hub: A high-energy, inclusive environment designed for collaboration and connection with a team that represents over 60 countries.
*Benefits offered may differ based on the type of contract that is issued
So, what are you waiting for? Apply now!
All applications and CVs must be submitted in English 😉
