Product Designer
Depop
- Community: Our buyers, sellers and employees are inclusive, diverse and accessible. We are committed to empowering diversity within the fashion community.
- Entrepreneurship: We support our community and help them build their business with Depop. We thrive on supporting innovation by shaping an environment where creators, makers or hustlers can thrive.
- Sustainability: Depop helps extend the life of garments and reduce waste, we care about the world and want to make a positive change within the fashion industry.
Product & Design at Depop
Depop product teams are a fast-paced, constantly evolving environment. Our Design team is equally focused on the functional and delightful. Our work inspires and is inspired by a creative and expressive fashion community.
Role
As a Product Designer in Depop, your ultimate role is to create the fashion experience our users desire. As a key member of one of Depop’s cross-functional product teams, you will work closely with product managers, engineers, data scientists, and UX researchers to iterate and build useful, usable, and delightful experiences that your team can launch. You'll be proactively involved in all stages of product development from determining what features and experiences we should build to delivering built solutions. On the way, you’ll use your wide spectrum of strategy, research and design skills to translate insight into experience strategy, ideate solutions, explore concepts, identify and articulate design principles, create functional flows, wireframes, screen mockups and prototypes. You will intensively collaborate with your team members, lead workshops, present designs and voice user experience considerations. The role demands expert know-how in UX & UI design, obsession with quality and passion for good design.
Responsibilities
- Drive the design process within your product area end-to-end
- Form UX/UI directives off research insight, design principles 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 high and low fidelity prototypes
- Devise and run design workshops with team members
- Collaborate with product and engineering team members to support implementation
- Liaise with team members and stakeholders to agree design project timelines
- Plan and conduct user research and user testing within your user area
- Effectively pitch design proposals and win support
Requirements
- Experience designing user experiences for the Web, iOS and Android
- Demonstrated experience with end-to-end 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
Desirable
- A good understanding of mobile and desktop UX and UI patterns
- Ability to identify IA and UX issues
- Ability of form experience themes, UI models and IAs
- Ability to translate user research, user testing and data insight to design directives
- Ability to communicate compelling arguments about design proposals
About you
- Naturally collaborative and supportive
- Able to give and take design critique constructively
- Inquisitive and eager to continuously improve and learn
- Obsessive about good design
- An effective, articulate communicator
Benefits
- Learn and Grow: We want to give our people the opportunity to learn. We sponsor and run a myriad of programs, conferences and meet-ups to upskill our employees and enhance their journey with us, just ask!
- Wellbeing: We care about our employees wellbeing. We offer a cycle to work scheme, healthy fruit and snacks in the office, breakfast every Tuesday, eyecare vouchers and a discounted gym membership at Nuffield Health.
- Mental Health: Our employees mental health is a top priority. We offer subsidised counseling appointments with a qualified therapist through SelfSpace, we have trained mental health first aiders and we also run yoga, meditation and more.
- Work/life balance: We have 25 days of holiday with the opportunity to buy or sell 5 more, a day off for activism to allow you the opportunity to make a difference and we offer sabbaticals for our long serving employees
- Family life: We offer flexible working (based on the team you will be joining), generous maternity/paternity and parental leave policies which includes adoption and paid time off for fertility treatments. Also, all of our offices are dog-friendly! Do your best work with your best friend.
- Fun: We love to hang out with each other at Depop. On Friday we finish an hour early to socialise with free food, and have amazing Winter and Summer Parties to celebrate our successes. We also host internal employee socials such as quiz night, games night, movie night and more...we’ve taken this virtual for now!
Equality and Diversity Monitoring
Depop is an equal opportunity employer. We celebrate diversity and are committed to creating an inclusive environment for all employees.
Depop recognises the benefits of a diverse workforce which reflects the wider population and welcomes applications from all sections of the community. Under the Equality Act (2010), Depop must demonstrate that their recruitment processes are fair and that we are not discriminating against or disadvantaging anyone because of their age, disability, gender reassignment status, marriage or civil partnership status, pregnancy or maternity, race, religion or belief, sex or sexual orientation. We need to ask applicants some questions to make sure that no one is being unfairly discriminated against or disadvantaged.
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Reasonable adjustments will be made available should you be invited to interview.
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