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— Micha Commeren
Senior Staff Product Designer, Core Seller
Etsy • New York, United States of America 🇺🇸
As a Senior Staff Product Designer, you'll own complex problems spanning the entire end-to-end seller experience and work independently to identify, initiate, and deliver new products. You'll also lead and influence across functions and senior leaders to improve the lives of sellers.
Responsibilities
- Identifying and leading new tracks of work to improve the lives of sellers, working with cross-functional partners to define our vision and strategy
- Diagnosing and addressing gaps in our visual language across seller products and helping up-level it
- Setting the bar for interaction design and solving the most complex Seller interaction problems at Etsy
- Building prototypes that clarify product strategy and influence the organization's priorities
- Making regular use of your soft skills: listening, negotiating, decision-making
- Spending time developing other designers, mentoring and leveling up craft across teams
- Playing a key part in onboarding and improving the design team’s culture and engagement
Requirements
- 10+ years of professional experience working in product design
- Experience building products where the problem space is novel or complex
- Experience crafting native apps (iOS and Android) and familiarity with platform-specific interaction patterns
- Experience setting the standard for design quality and running independently, providing direction to designers within the team
- Excellent visual and interaction design skills, from prototyping to polished execution with an eye for pixel-perfect detail
- Think in systems and can diagnose complex problems and deliver scalable solutions
- Proficiency leading workshops and aligning teams around a vision and approach
- Excellent communicator who can lead teams and influence senior leaders and executives
- Deep understanding of the tech that powers digital products, and how to collaborate with engineering to make the most of emerging capabilities
- The ability to context switch and apply a wide variety of product design skills (e.g., design thinking, design strategy, user problem definition, information architecture, service design)
Key Skills
- Product design experience
- Building products with novel or complex problem spaces
- Crafting native apps (iOS and Android)
- Setting design quality standards
- Visual and interaction design skills
- Systems thinking
- Leading workshops and aligning teams
- Excellent communication
- Understanding of digital product tech
- Context switching and applying various product design skills
Benefits
- Equity package
- Annual performance bonus
- Competitive benefits that support you and your family
About Etsy
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. Etsy Inc. employees – whether a team member of Etsy or Depop – tackle unique, meaningful, and large-scale problems alongside passionate coworkers, all the while making a rewarding impact and Keeping Commerce Human. Founded in 2005, Etsy is headquartered in Brooklyn, NY with additional offices in Dublin and Mexico City. As of December 31, 2024, our marketplaces connect 8 million active sellers – including over 5 million on Etsy.com, 80% of whom are women – and 95 million active buyers in nearly every country in the world. In 2024, we facilitated over $12 billion in transactions.
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