Head of Design, Depop
Buyer and Design System, Buyers Team
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The community-driven fashion marketplace
Job no longer available
The community-driven fashion marketplace
201-500 employees
Job no longer available
More information about location
201-500 employees
Company mission
Our mission is to build the world’s most diverse progressive home of fashion. Our team is dedicated to enhancing and developing the Depop experience to serve the needs of our global community.
Role
Who you are
- An experienced design leader, with experience in managing a team of 4+ people
- Comfortable and experience working in a product environment where the focus is on continuous learning and delivery, utilising lean discovery processes and experimentation to enable autonomous teams to achieve measurable outcomes
- Strong communication and storytelling skills - using these to build buy-in and alignment across varied stakeholders and motivate and inspire teams
- Demonstrable experience in shaping and implementing a Design system
- Highly effective at cross-functional stakeholder management
- Adept at implementing product design frameworks and cross-functional team workflows
- Able to turn our product vision into a meaningful direction for your end users
- Able to bring strategic and big picture thinking, setting a clear vision and plan, whilst also being hands-on and close to the detail. Will bring the right balance of strategy versus implementation needed in a high-growth environment
- Experience working in a two-sided marketplace and/or in fashion are not required, but are a plus
What the job involves
- As Head of Design, Buyer, you’ll lead Depop’s product design team in the buyer space. You will take on the challenge of creating a user experience that’s both fun and engaging and also makes it easy for buyers to find the fashion that they like. You’ll be charged with creating our product design strategy for the buyer pillar, working closely with both our brand team and our product and engineering teams
- You will also help set the vision and strategy to elevate the Depop design system and connect it with our vibrant brand. You'll use your influence and expertise to create the conditions for an appealing and compelling design that makes customers fall in love with Depop, and you'll ensure the team has the vision, focus, metrics, processes, and space to execute high-impact work that breathes life into our incredible brand at every customer touchpoint
- Depop is based in London, and we are open to remote candidates in the UK
- Responsibilities:
- Managing and supporting designers in the buyer space, crafting paths for career growth and supporting team members in their progression, learning, and development
- Be the voice for our end user - you will help build empathy at Depop and evangelise what is important to our users
- Lead the evolution and improvement of our design system and design standards and work with engineering to ensure this is well integrated into our code base
- Working closely with our brand team to bring product design and brand design closer together, translating our brand into our product
- Ensuring that the Depop iOS and Android apps and Depop.com provide a great user experience, maintaining consistency across platforms and with platform standards where it makes sense
- Co-creating UX strategy for Buyer driving buy-in amongst the Depop community
- Work with product and engineering to foster a discovery-led approach to product development - not only ensure good product design but design how we should work to achieve this
- Build a culture where every Designer values discovery and continuous learning. You will be personally focused on measuring outcomes and understanding the performance of product changes
- Ensure excellence in design discipline so that we are building a world-class design team
- Build good working relationships with colleagues and stakeholders
- Provide strong team leadership with solid management and communications skills, particularly when explaining creative solutions and bringing the team along on the journey
Salary benchmarks
Our take
The re-sale market across everyday clothing, collectables and luxury is growing. One driving force of this is that people care more about sustainability and are therefore buying second-hand goods. This has resulted in a fast growing market with plenty of opportunity.
The experience on Depop is what you'd expect from platforms such as Instagram. The focus on social, creators and influencers has created a very high level of engagement.
Depop was quick to realise the value in power users and has focused efforts there (where people are generating up to $100,000 in annual income for themselves by selling items). The popularity of social platforms making individuals into entrepreneurs will likely attract interest from Instagram and Pinterest. This may pose a challenge for Depop as these competitors will be in a strong position to leverage their networks.
The company has been acquired by Etsy and is now focusing on strategic partnerships in several industries to keep market share flowing in.
Kirsty
Company Specialist at Welcome to the Jungle
Insights
-7% employee growth in 12 months
Company
Funding (last 2 of 8 rounds)
Jun 2019
$62m
SERIES C
Jan 2018
$20m
SERIES B
Total funding: $100.6m
Company benefits
- 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
- 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
- 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
- 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
- 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
- We’re Flexa® accredited, meaning we offer genuinely flexible working
- Life Insurance (financial compensation of 3x your salary)
- Pension (Depop will match your contribution up to 6% of your qualifying earnings)
Company HQ
Farringdon, London, UK
Leadership
Simon Beckerman
(Founder)Founded a magazine in Italy before Depop. No longer holds an operational role
Kruti Patel Goyal
(CEO, non founder)Previously CPO at Etsy, Kruti joined Depop as new CEO in September of 2022.
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