At Worldpackers, we believe that travel can transform people — and transformed people can transform the world. ✨

Since 2014, we’ve built a global community of conscious travellers and welcoming hosts, enabling meaningful connections and collaborative experiences around the world.

Our purpose is rooted in connection. We exist to foster personal growth, cultural exchange, and a more socially and environmentally sustainable world through travel.

Respect, inclusion, collaboration, and continuous learning guide everything we do. Being part of Worldpackers — as a traveller, host, or team member — means belonging to a diverse, global community where different perspectives are valued and discriminatory behaviour has no place.

Being part of Worldpackers means working with purpose — helping more people experience transformative journeys through connection.

Role overview

We’re seeking a Product Design Lead to develop and elevate the experience of our platform and services. You will lead the product design team, collaborate closely with product management, engineering and research, and champion user-centered design across the organisation. This role is ideal for someone who brings together continuous improvement in the design craft, process and tools with hands-on design with the squads and enjoys supporting the development of others while shipping impactful product experiences.

Key responsibilities

• Collaborate with product managers and engineers to define and deliver high-quality experiments and features.

• Design end-to-end user experiences, from prototypes to high-fidelity prototypes and design specifications.

• Conduct and partner on user research, usability testing and data-informed evaluation to validate designs and identify user-centered opportunities.

• Lead and support designers, providing feedback, skill development and fostering a culture of craft, collaboration and continuous learning.

• Drive the team on continuously finding best practices, tools, processes and design craft advancements, specially with AI.

• Facilitate the evolution of our design system, component libraries and interaction patterns to ensure consistency and scalability on Web and Mobile.

Essential skills / knowledge & experience

• Significant track record leading designers and product design of mobile and web applications

• Strong portfolio demonstrating user-centered, end-to-end product design and clear impact on user outcomes.

• Fluency in common design tools (e.g., Figma) and experience building/maintaining design systems.

• Practical experience of user research methods, usability testing and translating insights into design decisions.

• Ability to communicate design rationale clearly to stakeholders, influence different teams, and make decisions.

• Experience with accessibility standards and inclusive design practices.

• Comfortable working in an iterative, data-informed environment with frequent releases.

• Advanced to fluent English proficiency.

What we value

• Collaboration, curiosity and continuous learning.

• Empathy for users and teammates, and a desire to design responsibly.

• Autonomy and accountability in a remote-first environment.

• Making decisions based on evidence, user feedback and measurable impact.

• Sharing knowledge and supporting others to grow.