Director of Product Design, Etsy

• You give direction to designers within your team, and raise the design bar by leveling up skills across all of the Product Design team
• You have experience using data and research to inform decision making and measure outcomes
• You can propose new, high-impact product initiatives and align your group around a vision and approach, all while taking into account capabilities and limitations of our product
• You have a track record of leading through ambiguity and collaborating with research, analytics and engineers in a continuous delivery environment
• You embody design quality, understand what success looks like in the ecommerce space and know how to shepherd execution to launch impactful changes to the experience
• You regularly make use of your soft skills to persuade and build alignment: listening, consensus-building, and decision-making
• You spend time providing leadership and mentorship to managers and designers, and recommend new methodologies and approaches for design
• You play a lead role in forecasting, hiring, onboarding, and improving our team’s culture and engagement

Desirable

• This is a full-time position reporting to the Senior Director of Product Design, of our Buyer Experience Groups
• Collaborating with cross-functional leads to craft the vision, strategy, goals, strategic roadmap, and operations of your initiatives
• Regularly sharing work with stakeholders to provide visibility; managing relationships and collaboration across product groups working on overlapping parts of the search experience
• Dedicating time to mentor, coach and sponsor managers and designers on your team; finding or creating career growth opportunities for members your team
• Ensuring we are building the right products for our customers, and help teams take the best near-term steps toward their long-term vision
• Leading regular design reviews, critiques, and brainstorming sessions for your teams
• Work alongside the broader Design Leadership team to craft our teams’ culture, processes, and tools
• Recruiting, hiring and onboarding outstanding designers and leaders
• 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
• You’ll join a leadership team that represents all functions that contribute to product development including of user research, product management, data analytics, and engineering
• You’ll manage a team of designers working on the search experience, and a manager who leads our Etsy Ads product, which allows sellers to market their items in search
• In addition to working on the search customer experience, you’ll work alongside expert engineers specialized in search ranking, retrieval, localization, and personalization