“Travel is such a necessity now because of the distributed lives that we have.”
Rome2Rio
Founded in Australia, the travel-focused tech scale-up, Rome2Rio, is a world-first platform that offers a multi-modal solution to help travelers across the globe easily get from A to B.
With over 30 million users a month as of 2022, Rome2Rio is tapping into a niche section of the multi-trillion dollar global travel industry. It’s no wonder it’s such an exciting time to join their fast-scaling journey.
Key Points
- Role
- Senior Product Designer
- Location
- Melbourne
- Salary
- $140K + Super
- Company size
- 60+ People
- Funding stage
- Acquired by Omio for $40 million in 2019
What Rome2Rio is all about
Picture this: you decide that you’re ready to take a well-deserved vacation and look to begin planning the logistics of getting to your dream destination. You plug your starting and end points into a popular travel planning platform and, low and behold, you are only presented with flight and hotel options. What if you don’t want to fly to your destination? What if your destination is not a major city or is off the beaten track?
This is where Rome2Rio excels! An Australian success story with global reach, Rome2Rio, is a multi-modal travel planning platform. The door-to-door search engine allows you to search any city, town, attraction, landmark, or address across the globe and it will present you with numerous options for modes of transport to get you from A to B. Post-Covid travel has literally never been so easy.
Founded in 2011 in Melbourne by two engineers originally from Seattle, Rome2Rio’s product has seen significant growth in popularity in the past decade. Acquired by European travel giant, Omio in 2019 - the stars are the limit for these guys. Now attracting over one million users to their platform a day, or over 30 million users a month, it is no wonder that the team is looking to expand its capacity and impact.
Joining Rome2Rio now is a phenomenal opportunity to join a company on an exciting and stable growth journey, as well as to help shape a product while solving the real-time problems of millions of users worldwide.
Senior Product Designer Role
Rome2rio is looking to add a capable and passionate Senior Product Designer that leans a bit more toward the UX side of the design process spectrum to join their growing product team.
You’ll be tasked with with owning and impacting the end-to-end design function in one of Rome2Rio’s cross-functional pods (Acquisition which is currently being built as they’re on the look out for a Product Manager to finish off the pod). The Acquisition pod dictates the specific customer-facing part of their product which is the first touch point with their customer base. You’ll also be tasked with guiding more junior team members in best-practices across end to end design and having an overarching eye in design strategy as a senior team member.
While the pod is being fully fleshed out, there will be a few exciting UI based projects to sink your teeth in to as well.
Most importantly, it’s an exciting opportunity to work closely with end-users and collaborate in a highly agile cross functional team.
You’ll have the opportunity to impact millions of users a day while working on a consumer-centric product that will show the fruits of your labour in real-time.
What’s special about this role?
Ability to mentor and be mentored
Work closely and learn from two talented senior designers, as well as knowledge share and mentor junior designers within the team.
Exposure to a Fast and Steadily Scaling Journey
Join an organisation growing steadily with ambitious plans to improve its product and build out its brand.
Impact millions of users a day
Work across a product that influences and impacts they that millions of people around the globe travel in real time
The details
The Team
The Design team has grown in the last couple of months and now consists of a Principle Designer, Senior UX/UI Designer, 2 Mid Product Designers, and a UX Writer across Australia and New Zealand, as well as two other design team members located in Sri Lanka and the USA.
Rome2Rio works in four cross-functional product teams called pods, with three of these teams focused directly on working end-to-end across the product.
Each team is an autonomous and agile unit consisting of a Product Manager, Data Scientist, Designers, and Engineers.
Culture & Values
This company has a truly special culture. Rome2Rio prides itself in its can-do, engineering-centric culture built by the founders and shaped and upheld by the rest of the team.
They also put a lot of importance on values like mental health, work-life balance, and continuous learning and up skilling for the team. These values are seen through company lunches, flexible working hours in a casual office space, 5 weeks of annual leave a year, and a yearly health and wellness benefit.
Financials & Benefits
On top of a great market salary, you’ll get a generous biennial travel allowance to use during your five weeks of annual leave to test the Rome2Rio application as a user as well.
They also offer access to a budget for an annual learning and development budget, a biennial ground transport fund for transit expenses outside of Melbourne, as well as 10 weeks of paid parental leave for primary carers and 4 weeks for secondary carers.