Product Design Manager, Seller Inventory

Etsy is the global marketplace for unique and creative goods. We build, power, and evolve the tools and technologies that connect millions of entrepreneurs with millions of buyers around the world. As an Etsy Inc. employee – whether a team member of Etsy, Reverb, Depop, or Elo7 – you’ll tackle unique, meaningful, and large-scale problems alongside passionate coworkers, all the while making a rewarding impact and Keeping Commerce Human.

What’s the role?

Etsy is home to a wide variety of markets across the globe, with a core focus on the US, UK, Canada, France, Germany, and Australia.

As a Product Design Manager on our Seller Inventory team, you’ll help sellers optimize their inventory and explore new opportunities that highlight our sellers’ unique items. You’ll lead a team of designers working to build an improved item listing experience while advocating for seller listing opportunities with cross functional partners. As a primary focus, you’ll dedicate yourself to coaching and providing direction for designers as they address complex problems across our seller initiatives. You’ll also partner with product and engineering leaders to improve operations and drive the strategy in a relatively new product initiative.

This is a full-time position reporting to the Senior Product Design Manager. This role requires your presence in Etsy’s Mexico City office in an in-person or flex capacity. Learn more about our Flex and Office-based work modes as well as vaccination policy here.

What’s this team like at Etsy?

• Typically, Product Design Managers at Etsy partner with Product Management and Engineering to lead teams passionate about customer outcomes, while mentoring and growing the product designers on your team. You’ll also be joining a team that’s deeply passionate about working to enable the success of sellers on Etsy.

What does the day-to-day look like?

• Lead product designers by mentoring and creating career growth opportunities for those on your team
• Collaborate with cross-functional team leads to craft the vision, strategy, and operations of your initiative
• Ensure we are building the right products for our customers, and help teams take the best near-term steps toward their long-term vision
• Advocate for our sellers, and guide teams to deliver well-executed and on-brand experiences by using our design system
• Lead regular design reviews, critiques, and brainstorming sessions for your teams
• Facilitate continuous learning and improvement for the product design team and its members
• Recruit and hire outstanding design talent and facilitate onboarding of new designers
• Work alongside the broader Design Leadership team to craft our teams’ culture, processes, and tools
• 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.

Manager level at Etsy means:

• You can propose new, high-impact product improvements and align the group around an 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, leveling up design skills, understand what success looks like in the ecommerce space and knowing how to shepherd execution through your design direction, to launch impactful experience change

• You regularly make use of your soft skills to persuade and build alignment: listening, consensus-building, decision-making

• You spend time providing leadership and mentorship to designers and help pilot new methodologies and approaches

• You play a lead role in improving your team’s culture and engagement

Qualities we value in designer leaders:

• 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

What's Next

If you're interested in joining the team at Etsy, please share your resume with us and feel free to include a cover letter if you'd like. As we hope you've seen already, Etsy is a place that values individuality and variety. We don't want you to be like everyone else -- we want you to be like you! So tell us what you're all about.

Our Promise

At Etsy, we believe that a diverse, equitable and inclusive workplace furthers relevance, resilience, and longevity. We encourage people from all backgrounds, ages, abilities, and experiences to apply. Etsy is proud to be an equal opportunity workplace and is an affirmative action employer. We are committed to equal employment opportunity regardless of race, color, ancestry, religion, sex, national origin, sexual orientation, age, citizenship, marital status, disability, gender identity or Veteran status. If, due to a disability, you need an accommodation during any part of the interview process, please let your recruiter know. While Etsy supports visa sponsorship, sponsorship opportunities may be limited to certain roles and skills.