Senior UI Designer

Depop is the community-powered fashion marketplace to buy and sell unique fashion, with over 30 million registered users in more than 150 countries. Depop is a place for anyone to discover and celebrate their style on their own terms, and to feel good about their fashion choices by extending the lives of millions of garments.

The company was founded in 2011 and is headquartered in London with offices in Manchester and New York. Depop has approximately 400 employees dedicated to its mission of building the world’s most diverse progressive home of fashion, that’s kinder on the planet and kinder to people. In 2021, Depop became a wholly-owned subsidiary of Etsy - the global marketplace for unique and creative goods - and continues to operate as a standalone company.

Depop is an equal opportunity employer. Our mission is to build the world’s most diverse progressive home of fashion. To do this, we encourage people from underrepresented communities to apply. We celebrate diversity and are committed to creating an inclusive environment for all employees. We’re continuing to build recruitment processes that are fair and welcome requests for reasonable adjustments required throughout your interview experience with us. Depop supports visa sponsorship, sponsorship opportunities may be limited to certain roles and skillsets.

As our community continues to grow, we’re looking for a Senior Product Designer with a strong emphasis on user interface design. You’ll play a pivotal role in crafting intuitive, visually appealing user interfaces that elevate our iOS platform to the next level. Additionally, this position is closely connected to our plan to implement a new fully integrated design system. You will therefore have the unique opportunity to shape and define our design system, ensuring consistency and excellence across all digital platforms. 

As a senior member of our design team, your expertise in UI design will be instrumental in driving our product’s aesthetics and usability. You will collaborate closely with our UX researchers and draw from your own UX knowledge to ensure a seamless and visually compelling user experience.

Our Product and Design teams help define the best digital environment for our users to enjoy Depop. As our product portfolio expands, providing a positive user experience is a core focus at Depop, with our passionate Designers bringing Depop to life. You'll work in a highly collaborative, cross-functional team and take ownership of planning, designing and finalising features/solutions from start to finish. Our design team love to help each other become better at what they do through knowledge-sharing, attending events and writing blogs. So if you have a passion for the tech design world, you're in good company!

You'll be proactively involved in all stages of product development from determining what features and experiences we should build to deliver built solutions. On the way, you’ll use your wide spectrum of strategy, research and design skills to translate insight into the 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. 

Responsibilities

• Create and maintain a cohesive design system
• Conduct design audits
• Implement design principles, including layout, colour, typography and visual hierarchy
• 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 the implementation
• Liaise with team members and stakeholders to agree on 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
• The ability to 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

UK Benefits
Health + Mental Wellbeing

• Cash-plan or PMI - you have the choice of a healthcare plan that best suits you
• Subsidised counselling and coaching - we partner with Selfspace to provide you with the opportunity for a good conversation with a qualified person
• Cycle to Work scheme - choose between Evans or the Green Commute Initiative to help access a bike for your commute
• Employee Assistance Programme (EAP) - have access to a confidential support network of expert advice 24/7
• Mental Health First Aiders - we have trained individuals across the business to offer support and signposting

Work/Life Balance

• 25 days annual leave with the option to carry over up to 5 days
• 1 company-wide day off per quarter, for you to take some time for yourself and decompress
• Impact hours: At Depop, we offer all full-time employees up to the equivalent of 2 days additional paid leave per year to volunteer. We allocate this time in hours to help you engage with your community with ease and flexibility.

Flexible Working
MyMode is our hybrid-working model, designed to empower our employees to choose a working mode that works for them. MyMode is composed of 3 working modes: Flex, Office Based and Remote.

• Flex: we'd love you to head to your nearest Depop office once a week, but feel free to work from home the rest of the week.
• Office: Want to head into the office more? No problem, you can opt to be "Office-Based", with your very own desk.
• Remote: depending on your role you can request to be a remote worker, and only head into the office 4 times per year.

All of our offices are also dog-friendly! Do your best work with your best friend.
You can also apply to work abroad for 4 weeks of the year (in UK tax treaty countries).

Family Life

Our parental leave policies aim to support and enable parents to play equal roles in nurturing their families, in a way that is flexible and truly gender-neutral. Our full-time regular employees are eligible for 18 weeks of paid parental leave for the birth or adoption of their child. We also offer IVF leave, shared parental leave and paid emergency parent/carer leave.

Learn and Grow

• We offer budgets for conferences, learning subscriptions and more. We also sponsor and run a myriad of programmes, conferences and meet-ups to upskill our employees and enhance their journey with us.

Your Future

• Life Insurance (financial compensation of 3x your salary)
• Pension (Depop will match your contribution up to 6% of your qualifying earnings)

And finally, as a valued Depop employee we waive all of our employees’ fees when they sell on Depop so you can ship your sold items anywhere in the UK for free.