About the Role
We are looking for a Senior Product Designer to join our growing design team. This person will report to our Director of Product Design and embed within a product-focused team. As an early Design hire during a period of rapid company growth, you will play a key role in shaping our product and design processes for years to come. Our Travel Advisors are the primary users of the Fora Portal, where we build integrated tooling to support their work and success.
Responsibilities
- Lead with insights, designs, flows, and prototypes, both strategically and tactically.
- Be comfortable with the entire Product Design process from research and design system input, to design and prototyping, to handoff and QA.
- Contribute to our Design System to create consistently high-quality experiences and decrease delivery time.
- Develop product designs that balance creativity, quality, speed, and business opportunity.
- Design new product features from conception to user experience to pixel-perfect implementation.
- Establish and drive a practice of deeply understanding customer problems to create innovative solutions.
- Design and execute mixed-method research studies, synthesizing behavioral data using established UX research methodologies to inform product strategy.
- Demonstrate compelling and confident storytelling to align stakeholders around solutions.
- Work collaboratively with peers in Product Management, Product Ops, Engineering, and across Fora.
Requirements
- Have 5+ years of product design experience, preferably in a startup or embedded environment.
- Have a bachelor's degree in Human-Computer Interaction, Interaction Design, Computer Science, or a related field.
- Feel comfortable designing for both SaaS and Consumer-facing products, with significant experience in at least one.
- Are excited about creating many designs quickly and iterating on existing products.
- Approach design with an eye on practicality and business impact.
- Are comfortable working with partial data or input from Product Managers.
- Communicate well, both design ideas and product feedback.
- Have a strong ability to create easy-to-use interfaces for complex tasks.
- Have a fondness for identifying and addressing uncertain issues.
- Have an eye for visually appealing and meticulously crafted design, paying close attention to details.
- Are extremely comfortable with Figma.
- Hands-on HTML/CSS background is a plus.
- Authorization to work in the United States is required for full-time roles based in our New York City office.
- Fora is unable to sponsor or assist with U.S. work authorization.
Skills
- Product Design
- Design System
- Prototyping
- UX Research
- Figma
- HTML/CSS
Location
- New York City
Work Type
- Full-time
- Onsite
Experience Level
- Senior
Education Level
- Bachelor's degree in Human-Computer Interaction, Interaction Design, Computer Science, or a related field
Salary/Compensations
- $140K–$190K + equity
Benefits
- Unlimited vacation
- Health Insurance (including an option completely covered by Fora HQ)
- Dental & Vision Insurance
- Wellhub Memberships
- 401k plan with company match
- Commuter Benefits
- Supplemental Life Insurance
- Stock Options
About the Company
- Fora is the modern travel agency, empowering anyone with a passion for travel to build a thriving advisory business.
- We're modernizing the $100B+ travel agency industry by combining powerful technology, data, and community to enable thousands of entrepreneurs to build on our platform.
- Our business-in-a-box platform gives travel entrepreneurs everything they need to launch and scale, from cutting-edge tools and personalized training to a vibrant community and exclusive industry partnerships.
- Our mission is to help the next generation of travel entrepreneurs turn their love for travel into a fulfilling career, whether full-time or part-time.
- Founded in 2021 by seasoned entrepreneurs, Fora has grown steadily since, expanding to a team of 200+ full-time employees based in downtown New York City.
- In 2026, we announced our $60 million Series D investment round, led by Forerunner and Tactile Ventures, with continued participation from existing investors Thrive Capital, Insight Partners, and Heartcore Capital.
- We've also been recognized as a LinkedIn Top Startup 2024, Fast Company's Most Innovative Companies 2025 and 2023, and we were most recently recognized as one of the TIME100 Most Influential Companies 2026.
- We're building the first truly unified platform for all travel needs—leveraging the best of human expertise and technology to transform how people plan and book travel.
- We’re forging our own path, driving change within the industry.
- Community is our cornerstone and collective power is our strength.
- We believe technology is an answer to some of the most fundamental challenges the travel industry faces.
- We operate in service of our community and believe that when they’re empowered to focus on what they do best, we all win.
- Fora is equal parts fun, meaningful work and serious travel business.
Equal Opportunity
- Fora is committed to an equitable hiring process and an inclusive work environment.
- BIPOC and traditionally underrepresented candidates are strongly encouraged to apply.
- We will not discriminate and will take action to ensure against discrimination in employment, recruitment, advertisements for employment, compensation, termination, upgrading, promotions, and other conditions of employment against any employee or job applicant on the bases of race, color, gender, national origin, age, religion, creed, disability, veteran's status, sexual orientation, gender identity, gender expression or any other characteristic protected by law.
