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🎨 Product Designer (Open to full remote 🇫🇷)

Staycation
Full-time
Remote
France
Product Designer

Staycation is the app that lets people easily escape their daily routines with unique, 24-hour getaways or short experiences at the best hotels nearby.

Since launching in 2017, Staycation has redefined the hotel experience by transforming hotels into curated experiences and connecting them with a vibrant local community.

Today, Staycation means:

  • 3.5 million users (with an average age of 30)

  • 2,000+ partner hotels (4-5 stars and luxury destinations)

  • Experiences rated an average of 9.3/10 by our users

Joining Staycation means becoming part of a team passionate about reimagining the future of hospitality and urban living.

🚨 Before applying, please note: this is a full remote position, but only open to candidates based in France.

✨ The Role

As a Product Designer, your mission is to help shape the future of the Staycation experience, an essential service for urban dwellers.

Your goal: co-create simple, elegant solutions to complex problems, always keeping the user at the heart of everything you do.

At Staycation, the product team is a cross-functional powerhouse made up of Developers, Product Managers, and Product Designers.

Reporting to the CTO, you'll join a squad made up of a Product Manager, a Lead Developer, and several Developers.

The squad identifies and prioritizes key problems, and you’ll work together to design the right solutions.

Your playground? The entire Staycation product ecosystem: mobile app, website, hotel services and internal tools.

📍 Key Responsibilities

  • Design end-to-end solutions
    Be involved in every stage of the product development process—from identifying user needs and defining solutions to delivery and continuous improvement.

  • Champion the user perspective in every new feature
    You’ll know our Personas inside out: their constraints, their needs, their pain points—and you’ll make sure their voice is heard throughout the design process.

  • Set and elevate best practices
    You'll implement design processes, take ownership of the design system, and ensure a top-quality experience in the final product—working closely with developers to make it happen.

  • Help grow the design culture
    You'll collaborate with other Product and Visual Designers to ensure consistency across all touchpoints. You’ll bring in top creative talent (illustrators, 3D artists, etc.) to maximize delight in the product. At Staycation, you’ll be both the voice of the user and a champion for design.

  • Establish strong User Research processes
    Conduct in-depth user research to define Personas and understand their needs. You’ll set up processes to continuously enrich and track this knowledge.

🌍 Location

Paris or fully remote, just be available to work from Paris 3 days a month.

🚀 Why Join Us?

  • Be part of a company that's genuinely improving people's everyday lives.

  • Work in an innovative, opportunity-driven product organization.

  • Collaborate closely with engineers and product managers to co-create smart, user-centered solutions.

🎯 You’re the ideal candidate if you:

Must-haves

  • Have 5 years of experience in Product Design

  • Are fully proficient in Figma and have already built a robust design system

  • Are versatile and able to adapt to a fast-paced startup environment

  • Have a true craftsperson’s eye, you know your 8px grid by heart and love adding that magical touch to your interfaces

  • Have deep knowledge of User Research processes

  • Enjoy working collaboratively and prefer co-creating solutions over getting approval after the fact

  • Are comfortable setting up and running User Research processes

  • Are organized, detail-oriented, and hold yourself to high standards

  • You are fluent in French

Nice-to-haves

  • You’re fluent or near-fluent in English

  • You’re experienced with Discovery methods and enjoy engaging directly with users

⚙️ Hiring Process

  • Intro call with Isabella, our People Lead (30 min)

  • Manager interview with Robin, our CTO (60 min)

  • Take-home case study (1 week turnaround)

  • Case study presentation with Maxime and Robin (60 min)

  • Final meeting with the Co-founders (60 min)