Head of Product Experience (Travel Tech)

Location: Amsterdam or remote within CET ±1, with flexibility up to CET ±3 for exceptional candidates; travel to the Amsterdam office around six times a year.

Company

hirify.global is a travel tech platform for discovering and booking accommodation, serving consumers and partners through direct, comparison, white-label, and API products across 100+ markets.

What you will do

• Set hirify.global's UX vision and align product, engineering, and commercial leaders around it.
• Own user-facing outcomes with cross-functional peers and make design's contribution measurable.
• Lead Product Design, UX Research, and Content Design, and shape the organization during the first 90 days.
• Set the craft and quality bar through critique, product reviews, consistent journeys, and early design involvement in problem framing.
• Build a high-performing team with clear ownership, growth paths, strong hiring, and recognition.
• Stay involved in north-star concepts and cross-product journeys, scale AI across design, research, and content, and strengthen design's internal and external presence.

Requirements

• Experience leading a large, multidisciplinary UX organization spanning design and design systems, research, and content, including leaders of leaders and substantial depth in research.
• Ability to frame problems before solutions, balance user and commercial needs, and demonstrate outcomes and metrics delivered with Product.
• Credibility with senior product, engineering, and business leaders, with influence beyond design.
• Experience designing B2B2C products where partners offer the product to their own customers and evaluate it alongside end users.
• High-level individual craft, with the ability to lead critique, set the quality bar in detail, and articulate a compelling product experience vision.
• Experience building growing teams and hiring people stronger than yourself.
• Hands-on use of AI in design practice and the ability to scale it across a team.
• Ability to work within CET ±1, with flexibility up to CET ±3 only for exceptional candidates, and travel to Amsterdam around six times a year.

Nice to have

• Travel, marketplace, or OTA experience.
• Multi-brand or white-label design systems experience.
• Visible external profile through talks, writing, or case studies.

Culture & Benefits

• Open, diverse culture centered on knowledge sharing, trust, and transparency.
• Flexible time off with as many holidays as needed and remote-work options.
• Compensation package with significant Stock Appreciation Rights for employees.
• International team, Amsterdam office, catered lunches, coffee, and company events in Amsterdam and abroad.
• Home-office budget and free mental health support through OpenUp.