Senior Product Design Manager, User Experience Foundation

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 will 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?

The User Experience Foundation initiative is foundational to product development at Etsy, enabling teams to build brand-aligned, inclusive, usable products at scale. You’ll manage a product design team responsible for creating the visual and interactive systems that product teams rely upon to build beautiful, usable and accessible user experiences for the millions of Etsy buyers and sellers across the world.

This is a full-time position reporting to the Product Design Director for Enablement and the base salary range will be [172,000.00 - 224,000.00 USD per year]. In addition to salary, you will also be eligible for an equity package, an annual performance bonus, and our competitive benefits that support you and your family as part of your total rewards package at Etsy. For this role, we are considering candidates based in the United States who are either remote, flex, or office-based. Learn more about our Flex and Office-based work modes and workplace safety policies here.

What’s this team like at Etsy?

Join a team focused on and passionate about design systems and accessibility. Together the team delivers systematic solutions to challenging problems, pressure testing those ideas along the way and getting direct feedback from our internal customers. You’ll collaborate with cross-functional leads to craft the vision, strategy and operations of our initiative, while coaching and mentoring the talented group of product designers that report to you.

What does the day-to-day look like?

• 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
• 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 customer, and guide teams to deliver well-executed, on-brand, accessible experiences
• 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

Qualities that will help you thrive in this role are:

• You lead design strategy for sophisticated initiatives and growing design leaders
• You lead through ambiguity, making use of your soft skills to persuade and build alignment with senior leaders around a vision and approach
• You use comprehensive thinking to identify customer experience opportunities that create impact across the organization
• You incorporate advancements in the field of product design to guide the skills and practices of our team
• You develop a deep understanding of current design patterns and UX trends, and can guide your design team to use these in practice
• You use holistic thinking to identify customer experience opportunities that create impact across the organization
• You’re an experienced design leader who can help shape our design management practices and are sought out as a mentor by other design leaders