Senior Product Designer, Rent the Runway
$130-160k
+ Equity
Women's clothing subscription service
Job no longer available
Women's clothing subscription service
501-1000 employees
Job no longer available
$130-160k
+ Equity
501-1000 employees
Company mission
Rent the Runway's mission is to power women to feel their best every day.
Role
Who you are
- We’re looking for a smart and curious Senior Product Designer with demonstrated expertise across the fundamentals of UX, UI, interaction design, systems design, and testing/research
- 5+ years of experience working in a mobile consumer-focused business/product
- You have a strong understanding of experience principles and customer needs such as motivations and behaviors, with the ability to translate them into engaging and actionable deliverables
- Ability to create and present strategic experiences that ladder up into business goals and opportunities
- You have excellent verbal and written skills to be able to communicate to both technical and non-technical savvy audience members
- You can prioritize tasks and meet deadlines under pressure
- You have ability to critique the quality of both UX and visual designs to improve the final product experience
- You possess strong attention to detail and organizational skills
- Strong sense of accountability and ownership of projects
- You have solid experience presenting to executives and guiding decisions for new enhancements, features or redesigns
- Experience working in an agile environment
- Strong working knowledge of Figma (including prototyping) and UserTesting.com
What the job involves
- Our Product Designers own the design process from end-to-end: tirelessly advocating for the customer from initial ideation and vision work, through discovery and design, all the way to user testing and post-launch iterations
- In this role, you will focus on our upper and mid-funnel customer growth strategies. In addition to working with your product and engineering partners, you will also work closely with the site merchandising and creative teams to improve key pages like our homepage, landing pages, product pages, and onboarding experience
- Create delightful mobile user experiences that are as functional as they are inspirational
- Work with product managers and engineers to define product and project objectives, outlining the long-term goals and short-term deliverables
- Lead and manage usability tests (setting up screeners, discussion guides, and moderating users)
- Determine and manage various types of UX deliverables and solutions throughout the lifecycle of a project, from brief to launch
- Marry product design work with the craft of brand and visual design to create functional and aesthetic experiences customers love
- Communicate UX strategy and rationale for research, audits, personas, user flows, wireframes, content mapping, campaign flows and functional specs
- Develop presentations articulating user experience strategy, opportunities and how usability relates to a larger brand experience
- Evangelize product design and its methodology through the company culture
Our take
Rent the Runway seeks to profit from two important trends in apparel consumption: wanting to stay on top of the latest fashion trends while living and purchasing sustainably. By providing a platform for women to rent designer pieces, its users can have it all.
The company allows users to rent, subscribe, or buy designer apparel and accessories. It achieves this with its network of partnerships with hundreds of top designers and managing the crucial but complicated logistics in-house. It offers its partnered brands sophisticated analytics about potential customers in return for lower prices on designer garments.
Rent the Runway is now focused on diversifying revenue streams while reducing its costs. Its recent partnership with Amazon is an example of this new direction: while it will use this chanel sell to clothes previously rented through its platform, it will for the first time be selling new clothes based off of rental items modified in line with market data.
While moves such as this may well shift Rent the Runway towards profitability, it also risks undercutting the company's central message of sustainability and supporting the circular economy. The company believes that by creating better quality clothing it will nonetheless be aiding in the fight against fast fashion. Time will tell if this move helps or hinders the sustainability movement, but it is likely to boost Rent the Runway's bottom line regardless.
Freddie
Company Specialist at Welcome to the Jungle
Insights
-6% employee growth in 12 months
Company
Funding (last 2 of 9 rounds)
Apr 2020
$80m
SERIES G
Mar 2019
$125m
SERIES F
Total funding: $401.2m
Company benefits
- Generous Paid Time Off including annual leave, paid bereavement, and family sick leave - every employee needs time to take care of themselves and their family.
- Universal Paid Parental Leave for both parents + flexible return to work program - because we know your newest family member(s) deserve your undivided attention.
- Paid Sabbatical after 5 years of continuous service
- Exclusive employee subscription and rental discounts
- 401k match
- Work from home opportunities
- Comprehensive health, dental care and dependents care from day 1 of employment - Your health comes first and we’ve got you covered.
- Competitive Stakeholder Pension - taking care of your future
- Company wide events and outings - our team spirit is no joke - we know how to have fun!
- Hybrid Work - our corporate employees have the option to work remotely 3 days a week, in accordance with Company policies
Company HQ
Hudson Square, New York, NY
Leadership
Jennifer Hyman
(CEO)Prior to Rent the Runway, was director of business development at IMG where she focused on the creation of new media businesses for IMG's fashion division.
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