Director of Design

About Skyscanner

Everyone loves travelling, but planning is not without its challenges ✈️. That's why we've spent 20 years building tools that turn travel-planning chaos into a breeze. Today, around 160 million travellers count on us every month to skip the whole “47 browser tabs open” phase and find flights, cars, and hotels quickly and easily 💻.

Joining Skyscanner means becoming part of a global brand that's striving to become the planet's go-to travel hack accessible for all 🌍.

Our vision? To be the world's number one travel ally. (Ambitious? 💪 Yes, but, hey, that's what got us here)

Now, we're on the lookout for a Director of Design to lead a talented team of designers, elevate design excellence across the organisation, and ensure every traveller interaction feels effortless, intuitive and distinctly Skyscanner.

You can be based in Barcelona, Edinburgh or London where we adopt a hybrid working policy of working in the office twice a week.

About the role

Hybrid

This isn't a traditional design leadership role focused on a single product area. You'll define the vision for design across Skyscanner, ensuring we continue to create experiences that travellers love while enabling teams to move faster, smarter and with greater consistency.

It's a role for someone who wants to amplify the impact of design across an entire organization by evolving our design systems, AI-enabled workflows and design operations capabilities, helping teams deliver exceptional experiences at scale.

You'll partner closely with leaders across Design, Product and Engineering to ensure design excellence isn't something a handful of specialists deliver — it's something the entire organization can contribute to.

What you'll be doing

Scaling design excellence: You'll oversee the evolution of our design systems, patterns and practices, helping teams create consistent, high-quality experiences across platforms.

Building AI-enabled design capabilities: You'll shape how AI supports the de