Lead UX Designer Job at Vacatia, Portland, OR

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  • Vacatia
  • Portland, OR

Job Description

Join Vacatia and Help Shape the Future of Travel Through World-Class UX Design

At Vacatia, we’re transforming the vacation experience for families and travelers through beautifully crafted digital products and seamless resort operations. As a hospitality and technology company, we believe thoughtful design is core to delivering joy, trust, and simplicity at every touchpoint. Now, we’re hiring a Lead UX Designer to define and drive our user experience strategy across guest- and team-facing platforms.

Why You’ll Love Working at Vacatia

  • Design with Purpose: Create intuitive, accessible, and visually engaging experiences that serve real people, vacationers and hospitality teams alike.
  • End-to-End Ownership: Lead UX from discovery and research to design systems and high-fidelity prototypes.
  • Make an Impact: Your design decisions will directly influence business outcomes and the everyday experience of thousands of users.
  • Collaborate & Grow: Join a supportive, cross-functional team that values empathy, iteration, and continuous learning.

Your Impact

  • Lead user research, journey mapping, and persona development to uncover insights across multiple user types
  • Translate complex workflows into elegant UX flows, wireframes, and interactive prototypes
  • Define and maintain Vacatia’s evolving design system and UI patterns for consistency and scale
  • Conduct usability testing to validate ideas and inform continuous improvements
  • Collaborate with product managers, engineers, and analysts to deliver user-centered solutions
  • Champion UX best practices and mentor junior designers to elevate design maturity
  • Balance multiple priorities while upholding high standards for clarity, inclusivity, and user empathy

What You Bring

  • 5+ years of UX design experience, ideally in eCommerce and travel
  • Bachelor’s or Master’s degree in Design, HCI, or a related field
  • A strong portfolio showing end-to-end product design and user research
  • Expertise with Figma, prototyping tools, and responsive/mobile-first design
  • Familiarity with WCAG accessibility standards, UX analytics tools, and design systems
  • Excellent communication, storytelling, and stakeholder engagement skills
  • Bonus: Experience with AI-enhanced UX, personalization engines, or internal/admin dashboards

Be Part of Something Bigger

If you're passionate about simplifying complex workflows and designing digital experiences that truly serve their users, we’d love to connect with you.

Apply today and help Vacatia shape the future of hospitality, one intuitive interface at a time.

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