Senior Designer — Cars Grow & Connect (For Independent contractors)
Requirements
The role calls for an experienced designer who can work autonomously at pace, collaborate across multiple product teams, and communicate clearly with diverse stakeholders. Candidates should be confident in research, testing, and presenting, and familiar with Figma, prototyping tools, modern design practices, and preferably the travel or booking domain.
Job Description
The Car Rental group helps craft a key part of the ground transportation experience for Booking.com. This 6-month contract role provides design capacity for the Grow & Connect area of Cars, supporting up to 3 product teams delivering on their H1 2027 roadmap.
You'll work across multiple product initiatives that connect the traveller journey across the Booking.com ecosystem - from integrations with new tools and technologies, to landing page experiences, to partnerships with external platforms. You'll collaborate closely with the Trips & Accommodation Business Unit and commercial partners to ensure travellers receive a joined-up experience no matter where they book.
What You'll Do
In your first 2–3 weeks, you'll work with Mike Forsyth (GPM) and the product teams to define design priorities and understand the current state. You'll then own design delivery across the initiatives working to help travelers find and add the right method for them to get around by ground transport that is most suitable for their trip.
- Collaborate simultaneously with at least 2 product teams, so strong async communication and clarity are essential.
- Run research and testing to validate design decisions; present findings to product, engineering and commercial stakeholders.
- Create high-quality design assets, prototypes and documentation.
- Advocate for user needs and design quality alongside business metrics.
- Apply Booking's design systems, brand standards and accessibility principles consistently.
- Experienced designer (comfortable working autonomously and at pace on a contract role).
- Strong communicator and collaborator—equally comfortable with designers, PMs, engineers and commercial partners.
- Confident in running research, testing and presenting to diverse stakeholders.
- Proactive stakeholder manager, especially with senior product and cross business unit leaders.
- Familiarity with travel/booking domain preferred (but not required—you learn fast).
- Comfortable with Figma, prototyping tools, and modern design practices (including Claude and Figma AI features).
Skills
About Booking.com
A career at Booking.com is all about the journey, helping you explore new challenges in a place where you can be your best self. With plenty of exciting twists, turns and opportunities along the way. We’ve always been pioneers, on a mission to shape the future of travel through cutting edge technology, to make it easier for everyone to enjoy amazing experiences wherever they go. Under a desert sky, or in the heart of a bustling city. Discovering the perfect hideaway, or the perfect paella. When you join us, you’ll be part of a community where taking a different path and trying something new is celebrated and supported. And where making a difference counts. We’re determined to make the world of travel more sustainable, more accessible, and more inclusive, to create a positive impact on a global scale. That’s why we’re always looking for people who search for better solutions, the ones eager to stray off the beaten path to find new ways of doing things. Because at Booking.com it’s more than a job, it’s a journey we’re on together.
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