Director of Product Design
Search
Posted on 4/19/2023
INACTIVE
Etsy

5,001-10,000 employees

Handmade & vintage items marketplace platform
Company Overview
Etsy’s mission is to keep human connection at the heart of commerce through their e-commerce platform dedicated to handmade and vintage items. The company has developed a vibrant community marketplace that empowers sellers and entrepreneurs to keep doing what they love and also delivers buyers to look for something special with human touch.
Consumer Goods
Data & Analytics

Company Stage

Seed

Total Funding

$105.5M

Founded

2005

Headquarters

Brooklyn, New York

Growth & Insights
Headcount

6 month growth

0%

1 year growth

17%

2 year growth

22%
Locations
Remote in USA • Brooklyn, NY, USA
Experience Level
Entry
Junior
Mid
Senior
Expert
Desired Skills
Product Design
Data Analysis
CategoriesNew
UI/UX & Design
Requirements
  • You give direction to designers within your team, and raise the design bar by leveling up skills across all of the Product Design team
  • You have experience using data and research to inform decision making and measure outcomes
  • You can propose new, high-impact product initiatives and align your group around a vision and approach, all while taking into account capabilities and limitations of our product
  • You have a track record of leading through ambiguity and collaborating with research, analytics and engineers in a continuous delivery environment
  • You embody design quality, understand what success looks like in the ecommerce space and know how to shepherd execution to launch impactful changes to the experience
  • You regularly make use of your soft skills to persuade and build alignment: listening, consensus-building, and decision-making
  • You spend time providing leadership and mentorship to managers and designers, and recommend new methodologies and approaches for design
  • You play a lead role in forecasting, hiring, onboarding, and improving our team's culture and engagement
Responsibilities
  • Collaborating with cross-functional leads to craft the vision, strategy, goals, strategic roadmap, and operations of your initiatives
  • Regularly sharing work with stakeholders to provide visibility; managing relationships and collaboration across product groups working on overlapping parts of the search experience
  • Dedicating time to mentor, coach and sponsor managers and designers on your team; finding or creating career growth opportunities for members your team
  • Ensuring we are building the right products for our customers, and help teams take the best near-term steps toward their long-term vision
  • Leading regular design reviews, critiques, and brainstorming sessions for your teams
  • Work alongside the broader Design Leadership team to craft our teams' culture, processes, and tools
  • Recruiting, hiring and onboarding outstanding designers and leaders
  • Of course, this is just a sample of the kinds of work this role will require! You should assume that your role will encompass other tasks, too, and that your job duties and responsibilities may change from time to time at Etsy's discretion, or otherwise applicable with local law
  • Effective articulation of ideas, strategy and design solutions
  • Expressing feedback with kindness and candor
  • Creation of psychologically safe spaces for idea sharing, coaching and mentorship
  • Tolerance for ambiguity and healthy curiosity
  • Translation of quantitative & qualitative insights into design decisions
  • Contribution to our culture: motivation, optimism, quality, integrity