Product Designer, Risk Experience

What’s the role?

The Risk team at Etsy works to protect the marketplace at scale. We work towards achieving this goal through our outstanding risk mitigation tools and services ensuring that Etsy keeps commerce human and safe. We succeed in this space when there’s a reduction of buyers and sellers who are exposed to risk while using Etsy.

As a Product Designer on this team, you will take on the design and execution of products that scale our approach to content evaluation across the marketplace. We are looking for someone who can work closely with engineering and product partners to help define an ideal content evaluation experience for various users at Etsy. You will partner with collaborators across the Risk initiative in order to break down complex workflows into customer friendly experiences for various Etsy users!

This is a full-time position reporting to the Senior Product Design Manager. For this role, we are considering candidates based in Ireland who are either remote, flex, or office-based. Etsy offers different work modes to meet the variety of needs and preferences of our team. Learn more about our flexible work options and vaccination policy here.

What is Product Design like at Etsy?

Typically, product designers at Etsy work in a squad with a product manager, 3-5 engineers, researcher and analyst. Together they drive their own part of Etsy, deliver solutions to engaging problems and get feedback directly from customers.

Qualities that will help you thrive in this role are:

• Discovering insights, opportunities, and requirements
• Testing prototypes and hypotheses with users to collect feedback
• Launching experiments and evaluating how they perform and how to iterate
• Presenting your work to peers and leadership, async and in-person
• Taking part in weekly design critiques, workshops, all hands and squad meetings
• Thinking and writing about your process and documenting your decisions

Mid level at Etsy means:

• You work independently but seek mentorship and feedback from your manager and more senior designers
• You contribute to strategy and design direction
• You use research and data to inform your design solutions
• You sketch, prototype, and build high fidelity artifacts for the team, using your judgment to determine the best formats and fidelities for your work
• You use our design system proficiently and consistently
• You ship good work, balancing pragmatism and quality

Qualities that will help you thrive in this role are:

• Effective articulation of ideas and design solutions
• Expressing feedback with kindness and integrity
• Tolerance for ambiguity and healthy curiosity
• Translation of quantitative & qualitative insights into design decisions
• Contribution to our design team: motivation, optimism, quality, integrity

Please note: If you are expressing interest by applying to one Product Designer role, your application will automatically be considered for all open positions at that level. Please do not apply to roles at the same level. We have you covered!