Principal Product Designer

TL;DR

Principal Product Designer: Leads design strategy for customer experience, focusing on creating thoughtful, end-to-end solutions rooted in customer needs using Design Thinking. Focus on influencing product direction, making high-impact decisions, and ensuring solutions are grounded in empathy, research, and business insight.

Location: Remote, with a strong expectation for candidates to be based in Spain (preferably Barcelona area) due to local benefits and office presence.

Company

hirify.global is a fast-growing scale-up company in the vacation rental industry, empowering property owners and managers worldwide to efficiently manage and grow their business through technology.

What you will do

• Lead the design strategy for your Customer Experience area, ensuring decisions start with the customer and deliver measurable value.
• Drive a culture of problem-solving through ideation, prototyping, and iterative validation (Lean UX approach).
• Translate insights from user research into clear, user-focused problem statements.
• Map and refine end-to-end user journeys to identify pain points and opportunities.
• Generate innovative solutions through brainstorming, prototyping, and co-creation workshops.
• Lead concept testing and A/B testing to validate value creation and inform design iterations.

Requirements

• Proven experience designing end-to-end experiences in a complex product environment.
• A passion for customer-centricity and a track record of turning research insights into impactful solutions.
• Excellent at collaborating with customer-obsessed teams, passionate about raising the bar for user experience.
• Strong in information architecture, UX, and interaction design, with a sharp eye for detail, quality, and consistency.
• Ability to translate research insights and business needs into clear, impactful design solutions aligning with product vision.
• Excellent communication and facilitation skills, with the confidence to lead workshops and influence at all levels.
• Mastery of design tools like Figma, and other design/research tools, with a solid understanding of design systems and accessibility principles.
• English: B2 required for application submission.

Culture & Benefits

• Freedom to work from home any day that works for you.
• Enjoy 25 working days of paid vacation and Jornada Intensiva in August.
• Top-notch Cigna health insurance (includes travel insurance, dental plan, psychologist, and covers pre-existing conditions).
• Monthly allowance of 150€ for meals, plus flexible remuneration for transportation.
• Home-office setup allowance for a productive and comfortable work environment.
• Free Spanish classes.
• Daily office breakfast buffet and monthly events like football tournaments, wine tastings, hikes, and kayaking.