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AiraloVP of Research and Design
Airalo presents itself as an eSIM store for travelers, offering affordable mobile data in more than 200 countries and regions. The company reports a team of…
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Airalo presents itself as an eSIM store for travelers, offering affordable mobile data in more than 200 countries and regions. The company reports a team of over 400 people across more than 60 countries and works fully remote by design. This full-time, permanent VP of Research and Design role is listed in the United Kingdom and open to people based in Spain or the UAE, as well as the UK.…
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Airalo presents itself as an eSIM store for travelers, offering affordable mobile data in more than 200 countries and regions. The company reports a team of over 400 people across more than 60 countries and works fully remote by design. This full-time, permanent VP of Research and Design role is listed in the United Kingdom and open to people based in Spain or the UAE, as well as the UK. Employment is through a local UK contract, or through an employer of record in Spain or the UAE. The leader reports to the Chief Product Officer and sits level with the leaders of the consumer and B2B product lines.
The VP owns design across every customer surface. On the consumer side, the remit spans getting customers, turning them into buyers, the in-app experience, keeping them, core systems, the Airalo One offering and new bets. Business work covers resellers, corporate accounts and partner onboarding. The VP sets design direction for the next two years, decides which bets support it and which are ruled out, and runs research and design as a single unit in which research helps set strategy. The leader also co-writes the in-product brand with marketing, covering the design system, typography, color, motion, haptics, app imagery and the tone of every message.
The first year centers on bringing the brand into the product through a flagship connectivity launch, making the app feel at home on both iOS and Android, deciding what the design system should include, and drawing a working line between design and product management. The leader will also define how design and research careers progress and hire the team, including a view on what shape it should take.
Must-haves include experience running design across a substantial business, consumer depth, research experience beyond validation, a design strategy that was written, adopted and lived with, and a record of growing designers into leads and managers. The leader should still be close to the craft and able to make the commercial case for design. Applications and correspondence must be in English.
Responsibilities
- Oversee design for consumer and B2B surfaces so they feel like one relationship
- Set the two-year design direction and decide which product bets fit it
- Lead research and design as a single function, including the design guild and research team
- Co-author in-product brand expression with marketing, including the design system, motion and tone
- Define what finished quality means and enforce it, with accessibility built in from the start
- Define how careers in design and research are structured and hire the team
- Draw a clear line between what design owns and what product management owns
Requirements
- Experience running design for a large operation, owning an entire product
- Consumer product depth matters most; experience running a commercial or consulting product counts heavily
- Experience leading or working closely with research, with a view on its purpose beyond validation
- Track record of writing a design strategy, winning its adoption and living with the outcome
- Record of developing designers into leads and then into managers
- Skill at making the business case for design, not just the craft case
- Preference for one scalable design system over bespoke solutions, with awareness of its maintenance cost
- Still close to the work, with screen-level judgment that others defer to
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Design leadership at real scale, consumer product depth, research experience, and a record of growing designers into leads and managers.
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