Product Designer - London, United Kingdom - Depop

Depop

Verified Company

London, United Kingdom

3 weeks ago

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Tom O´Connor

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Description

Company Description

Depop is the community-powered fashion marketplace to buy and sell unique fashion, with over 30 million registered users in more than 150 countries.

Depop is a place for anyone to discover and celebrate their style on their own terms, and to feel good about their fashion choices by extending the lives of millions of garments.

The company was founded in 2011 and is headquartered in London with offices in Manchester and New York.

Depop has approximately 400 employees dedicated to its mission of building the world's most diverse progressive home of fashion, that's kinder on the planet and kinder to people.

In 2021, Depop became a wholly-owned subsidiary of Etsy - the global marketplace for unique and creative goods - and continues to operate as a standalone company.

Depop is an equal opportunity employer. Our mission is to build the world's most diverse progressive home of fashion. To do this, we encourage people from underrepresented communities to apply. We celebrate diversity and are committed to creating an inclusive environment for all employees.

We're continuing to build recruitment processes that are fair and welcome requests for reasonable adjustments required throughout your interview experience with us.

Depop supports visa sponsorship, sponsorship opportunities may be limited to certain roles and skillsets.

Job Description:

As our community continues to grow, we're looking for a Product Designer with a deep affiliation for user experience to help further improve the Depop experience across our web platforms.

Our Product and Design teams help define the best digital environment for our users to enjoy Depop.

As our product portfolio expands, providing a positive user experience is a core focus at Depop, with our passionate Designers bringing Depop to life.

You'll work in a highly collaborative, cross-functional team and take ownership of planning, designing and finalising features/solutions from start to finish.

Our design team love to help each other become better at what they do through knowledge-imparting, attending events and writing blogs.

So if you have a passion for the tech design world, you're in good company.

Responsibilities

Drive the design process within your product area endtoend
Form UX/UI directives off research insight, design standards and best practices
Explore solutions and sketch initial design ideas
Develop detailed designs, through user flows, wireframes and UI mockups
Produce final UI mocks and specifications
Create hi and low fidelity prototypes
Devise and run design workshops with team members
Team up with product and engineering team members to boost implementation
Liaise with team members and stakeholders to conclude design project timelines
Plan and conduct user research and user testing within your user area
Effectively pitch design proposals

Qualifications:

Practiced in designing user experiences for the Web, iOS and Android
A good comprehension of mobile and desktop UX and UI patterns
Demonstrated endtoend product design (UX & UI)
Proficiency in UX / UI tools (Sketch, Figma, Zeplin, Abstract, etc.)
Effective prototyping skills (InVision, Figma, Protopie, Principle or equivalent)
A portfolio showing high quality, thoughtful UX and UI work
Ability to translate user research, user testing and data insight to design directives
Ability to tell compelling arguments about your design proposals

About you:

Naturally collaborative and encouraging
Able to give and take design critique constructively
Inquisitive and eager to continuously improve and learn
Obsessive about good design
An effective, articulate comminicator

Additional Information

UK Benefits

Health + Mental Wellbeing

Cashplan or PMI you have the choice of a healthcare plan that best suits you
Subsidised counselling and coaching we partner with Selfspace to provide you with the opportunity for a good conversation with a qualified person
Cycle to Work scheme choose between Evans or the Green Commute Initiative to help access a bike for your commute
Employee Assistance Programme (EAP) have access to a confidential support network of expert advice 24/
Mental Health First Aiders we have trained individuals across the business to offer support and signposting

Work/Life Balance

25 days annual leave with the option to carry over up to 5 days
1 companywide day off per quarter, for you to take some time for yourself and decompress
2 activism days per year for you to use for volunteering, demonstrations or internal initiatives
We offer sabbaticals for our longserving employees.

Flexible Working
We're Flexa accredited, meaning we offer genuinely flexible working.
MyMode is our hybrid-working model, designed to empower our employees to choose a working mode that works for them.

MyMode is composed of 3 working modes:
Flex, Office Based and Remote.