Head of Design

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.