Principal DesignerMews · Czechia; Ireland; Spain; United Kingdom; United States

Principal Designer

🗓️ Posted 2026-07-20 Czechia; Ireland; Spain; United Kingdom; United States Hybrid Design Architecture
💰 Salary Not shared 📊 Market 6,666 GBP–10,000 GBP/mo

About the Company

Mews is transforming the hospitality industry with a platform that helps hotels run smarter, move faster, and create better guest experiences. The company believes in providing autonomy and trust to its employees, and offers a sense of purpose through the impact of their work. They value ownership, curiosity, meaningful impact, and consistent high performance.

Responsibilities

  • ● Build and maintain the division's design foundation - the design system, cross-tribe agents and skills, research and discovery engines, design architecture, guidelines, and standards
  • ● Hold the multi-year view: write clearly about what design across the division will need that it doesn't yet have, and drive towards it with enough conviction to see it through
  • ● Work with Staff Designers so that tribe-level design substrates compose into a coherent whole rather than a collection of parallel efforts
  • ● Partner with the VP on the most complex cross-tribe design problems - the ones that don't fit inside any single tribe's scope
  • ● Encode design judgment into reusable systems - components, tokens, patterns, agents, skills - rather than one-off artifacts that live and die with a single project
  • ● Contribute craft feedback and calibration input into Dire