VP of Research and Design

Airalo
Spain, United Kingdom, United Arab Emirates
Workplace: RemoteFull timeGBP 168,000 - 252,000 annuallyFunction: Research & Scientific (R&D)Skills: ["Strategic thinking","Leadership","Stakeholder management","Systems thinking","Communication"]

Lead research and design across the end-to-end Airalo product, owning how consumer and B2B experiences work together rather than as separate transactions. Set and drive design strategy, establish a scalable design system and accessibility standards, and evolve research to shape roadmap-defining questions. Build the design and research career framework, hire and shape the team, and grow leaders and managers while staying close enough to judgment on the screen.

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VP of Research and Design

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Job Summary

Lead research and design across the end-to-end Airalo product, owning how consumer and B2B experiences work together rather than as separate transactions. Set and drive design strategy, establish a scalable design system and accessibility standards, and evolve research to shape roadmap-defining questions. Build the design and research career framework, hire and shape the team, and grow leaders and managers while staying close enough to judgment on the screen.
Location: Spain, United Kingdom, United Arab Emirates
Workplace: Remote
Employment Type: Full time · Permanent
Job Function: Research & Scientific (R&D)
Seniority: Sr. Director level

Key Responsibilities

  • •Own the end-to-end product experience for consumer and B2B, making it feel like one relationship across acquisition, conversion, retention, core systems, and partner onboarding.
  • •Set design strategy for the product’s direction over the next two years, including which bets to pursue and which to avoid.
  • •Build and evolve the design system (including an accessibility standard) and keep it scalable and cost-aware to maintain.
  • •Turn research into a strategic input by setting the questions the roadmap turns on, not just validating decisions.
  • •Hire and shape the design/research team; build the career framework and quality bar, and grow leaders into managers.

Pay and Benefits

Salary: GBP 168,000 - 252,000 annually

Key Requirements

  • •Have led design at real scale, responsible for whole products (consumer depth most important) with strong experience running a business or professional product.
  • •Have led or worked closely with research and understand research beyond validation.
  • •Have written and successfully drove adoption of a design strategy, and lived with the outcomes.
  • •Stay close to the work—someone whose judgment on a screen is worth deferring to.
  • •Have grown designers into leads and leads into managers.
Experience:Consumer productsB2B products
Skills:Strategic thinkingLeadershipStakeholder managementSystems thinkingCommunication
Languages:English

Company Brief

Airalo
Operates a global eSIM marketplace and mobile connectivity platform that enables travelers and global customers to buy and install eSIMs for data plans across countries without physical SIM cards.
Industry: Telecommunications
Company Size: Medium (51 to 250 employees)
Growth: Growth Stage Startup
Headquarters: Singapore, Singapore
Founded: 2019
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