VP of Research and Design

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🌐 United Kingdom, Spain, +1 more countries – Remote

🇬🇧 United Kingdom – Remote 🇪🇸 Spain – Remote 🇦🇪 United Arab Emirates (UAE) – Remote

💵 £168k - £252k / year

⏰ Full Time

🔴 Lead

👔 Vice President

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Airalo

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51 - 200 employees

📡 Telecommunications

✈️ Travel

Telecommunications • Technology • Travel

Airalo is the world's first eSIM store that provides digital SIM cards (eSIMs) to travelers in over 200 countries and regions globally. The company offers an innovative solution to avoid high roaming charges by allowing users to purchase and activate eSIMs via its app, ensuring instant connectivity without the need for physical SIM cards. Airalo caters to various travelers by providing local, regional, and global eSIMs with transparent, prepaid pricing plans, supported by 24/7 customer service. The platform also supports partnership through APIs and offers incentives such as referral credits. Airalo represents a modern approach to global mobile connectivity, making it an essential tool for frequent travelers.

📋 Description

• Own product design across consumer and business products, including acquisition, conversion, customer experience, retention, core systems, Airalo One, reseller experience, corporate experience, and partner onboarding • Set the product design strategy and determine long-term priorities and trade-offs • Lead product design, research, and the product design guild as one function • Own how the brand is expressed within the product in partnership with Marketing • Define and enforce quality standards, including design systems, accessibility, and product language • Land the brand evolution in the product through the flagship connectivity launch • Improve the app with native iOS and Android micro-animations, haptics, and interaction patterns • Define the design system's needs and accessibility standards • Establish the working boundary between design and product management • Shift research toward setting strategic questions that shape the roadmap • Build the design and research career framework • Define team structure and hire team members • Report to the Chief Product Officer as a peer to the Consumer Product and B2B Product leaders

🎯 Requirements

• Experience leading design for a business at real scale and responsibility for a whole product rather than a slice of one • Consumer product depth; experience running a business or professional product is a strong advantage • Experience leading or working closely with research and understanding its strategic purpose beyond validation • Experience writing and securing adoption of a design strategy • Close involvement in design work and strong judgement on product screens • Experience growing designers into leads and leads into managers • Ability to make the commercial case for design fluently • Ability to build scalable design systems and understand their maintenance costs • Ability to communicate comfortably in English in meetings and asynchronously

🏖️ Benefits

• Fully remote work arrangement • Full-time, permanent employment • Local contract in the UK • Employer-of-record employment via Deel in Spain and the UAE • Background checks only with prior consent and as permitted by applicable law • Equal-opportunity employer • Reasonable accommodations throughout the interview process for individuals with disabilities