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Company Description
Job Description
What’s the role?
Buyers come to Etsy to shop our vast unique inventory, produced by small businessesall over the world. They come to shop for special occasions, big life moments, and for items that are a reflection of what matters most to them and represents who they are. Each and every day our buyers create around one hundred thousand collections to curate, sort, and organize what they are discovering. Our collections team is innovating the tools we give buyers to curate what they find on Etsy, and exploring new ways to let the rest of the marketplace use this buyer-powered curation to support an easy, fun, and exploratory shopping experience. This role will work alongside product, research, analytics, and engineering partners to lead the design of this innovative product team, by both iterating on existing and building new buyer experiences on both our website and native apps.
Day to day, it looks like:
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
Sharing 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
We are considering remote candidates based in the United States for this position. Etsy offers three different work modes to meet the variety of needs and preferences of our team: Flex mode for candidates who are comfortable traveling to an office location 2+ times per week, Remote mode, and Office-based mode. Learn more about our flexible work modes and vaccination policy here.
Qualifications
Staff level at Etsy means:
Runs independently or gives direction to designers within your team
Leads workshops and effectively aligns the group around a vision and approach
Has a track record of designing complex flows and customer journeys
Thinks and designs at a system level, not just interface elements or pages
Regularly makes use of your soft skills: listening, negotiating, decision-making
Spends time providing mentorship to other designers
Plays a key part in hiring, onboarding, and improving our team’s culture and engagement
Qualities we value in designers:
Effective articulation of ideas and design solutions
Expressing feedback with kindness and candor
Tolerance for ambiguity and healthy curiosity
Translation of quantitative and qualitative insights into design decisions
Contribution to our culture: motivation, optimism, quality, integrity
Additional Information
If you're interested in joining the team at Etsy, please send a cover letter and resume telling us why you'd be right for the position. As you've hopefully 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 write to us and tell us what you're all about.
Our Promise
At Etsy, we believe that a diverse, equitable and inclusive workplace makes us a more relevant, more competitive, and more resilient company. We encourage people from all backgrounds, ages, abilities, and experiences to apply. Etsy is an equal opportunity employer. We do not discriminate on the basis of race, color, ancestry, religion, national origin, sexual orientation, age, citizenship, marital or family status, disability, gender, gender identity or expression, pregnancy or caregiver status, veteran status, or any other legally protected status. We will ensure that individuals with disabilities are provided reasonable accommodations to participate in the job application and interview process, to perform essential job functions, and to receive other benefits and privileges of employment. While Etsy supports visa sponsorship, sponsorship opportunities may be limited to certain roles and skillsets.
For U.S. roles only:
Many Etsy roles are open to remote candidates, and you'll be able to identify which ones within the location header of each job description. We're open to remote hires from all U.S. states except Hawaii and Alaska. For candidates who will work remotely from Colorado, visit this link for information related to Colorado's Equal Pay for Equal Work Act.
Questions & answers for this position
- What is the type of contract for this position?The contract for this position is a Full-time contract
- Is telecommuting possible for this position?No, telecommuting is not possible for this position
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