Design · Seoul · Full-time
Designer
What we design is not only screens. It runs from software like the Vacatio Solution PMS and the FineStay app, through hardware like the self check-in kiosk display and the smart door lock, out to a physical space: VACATIO Hotel Samseong, which we operate ourselves.
As the business grows into hotels, robot services and software, we are at the point where defining the VACATIO brand properly — and extending it — matters more than anything. The designer's job is to make VACATIO look and feel like one brand at every one of those touchpoints.
We are looking for someone who cares not only about usability, but about what the brand is saying — and can turn that into a visual language people can see.
About VACATIO
For those who want a fine life
How do you define a fine life? For Team VACATIO, it’s a life lived in earnest.
“We Make Life a Journey”
So we make life as exciting as travel, and travel as easy as life.
Vacatio Solution
An AI all-in-one PMS that takes a host from booking to settlement in one tool. It comes in two editions: unattended solo operation, and multi-staff operation.
Channel manager & AI dynamic pricing
Holds one inventory across many sales channels without overbooking, and recomputes the rate on top of it every day.
Hardware — locks, kiosks, AI response
Smart locks and room controllers, self check-in kiosks, and call-and-text AI all move on the same flow as the booking data.
FineStay
The app where travelers find boutique stays and book them outright, with no inquiry.
VACATIO Hotel Samseong
A hotel we run ourselves — the living lab where we prove what we build alongside real guests. It opens formally in December 2026.
Through these products we change countless moments every day. We now process over ₩50B in transaction volume a year, thousands of properties run on our service, we have raised ₩6B, and we have stayed operationally profitable for two consecutive years. Investors and the industry pay attention — but what we’re actually proud of is the people on this team.
Our dream is to beat Airbnb. We want to do it with people who carry big, romantic dreams.
What you'll do
- Understand the VACATIO brand deeply, and define it as a consistent visual language — logo, color, typography, graphics.
- Extend the VACATIO brand consistently into each new line of business — hotels, robot services, software.
- Design and build the UI of the Vacatio Solution PMS and the FineStay app.
- Design the interfaces guests touch directly — the kiosk display, the smart door lock.
- Watch how people actually move through VACATIO Hotel Samseong, and feed what you see back into the product.
- Build and maintain the design system reused across every product.
- Create the visuals for everything the brand appears on — the website, marketing content, proposals, and the signage and print inside the hotel.
- Visualize complex service structures and data as infographics, illustrations and diagrams that read at a glance.
- Find where to improve from data, define the problem, and solve it.
What we look for
- You understand what a brand is saying, and have expressed it visually in a way that persuades.
- Your visual fundamentals — typography, color, layout — are solid.
- You understand engineering well enough to design UI with real structure.
- You have designed a whole user flow, not just a single screen.
- You have built a design system and actually kept it running.
- You can understand our services and propose a better experience than the one we have.
- You adapt fast and learn fast in a demanding environment.
- You are comfortable working across disciplines.
Nice to have
- You have built a brand identity (BI/BX) from scratch, or led a rebrand.
- You have designed a brand architecture that extends one brand across several businesses or services.
- You have shipped offline work too — print, signage, environmental graphics — not only screens.
- You have done data visualization or infographic work.
- You can reach for a wide range of tools, such as motion graphics or 3D.
People first, role second
The work and requirements above matter, of course. But before the role, we are people — and we are looking for teammates who can run in step with us. People first, role second.
Listing out specialties often makes us self-conscious — what we thought was our edge frequently turns out to be an edge in one particular environment only. So we look less at who ticks the boxes and more at who we can be with for the long run.
Honestly, this is not a team that is only comfortable. The direction changes often and there is a lot of work. We do not take that for granted, so we try hard to reward contribution as it comes. What carried us through the chaotic stretches, in the end, was trust in each other.
Tips for your application
- Rather than listing your history, tell us the experiences that show who you are.
- Tell us the experience and the story only you have.
- Attach a portfolio that shows that experience, if you have one.
Your path to joining
Application
We review your free-form application for fit with the role and with VACATIO.
1st interview
A culture-fit conversation with the hiring team. Over the phone, 15–30 minutes.
2nd interview
Your experience and projects, with the team you’d work in. 30–60 minutes.
Offer
We agree on terms, confirm the offer, and walk you through joining.
- There may be an additional interview, a take-home assignment or a reference check.
- Everyone who joins goes through a 3–6 month probation period, reviewed at the end.
- Thank you to everyone who applies. We contact selected candidates individually and don’t send separate notices otherwise.
A word from the team waiting for you
“Someone who wants to go all in on something — and hasn’t found what yet”
That’s who we want first. Right now we have more problems to solve than hard ones — we’re looking for people who can pour hours into solving them.
Please note
- Please leave out information Korean hiring law prohibits us from asking for — resident registration number, family relations, marital status.
- Candidates protected under Korean employment law (disability, veterans) are given preference as the law provides.
- An offer may be withdrawn if the documents submitted during the process turn out to contain false information.