Staff Product Designer, Etsy
Machine Learning
$157-205k
eCommerce platform for handcrafted goods
Job no longer available
eCommerce platform for handcrafted goods
1001+ employees
Job no longer available
$157-205k
1001+ employees
Company mission
To keep human connection at the heart of commerce.
Role
Who you are
- Thinking and designing at a system level, not just interface elements or pages
- Leading workshops and effectively align the group around a vision, strategy, and approach
- A have a track record of leading through ambiguity and designing complex flows and customer journeys
- Developing a deep understanding of current design patterns and UX trends
- Regularly making use of your soft skills: listening, negotiating, decision-making
- Spend time providing mentorship to other designers who seek out your expertise
- Playing a key part in hiring, onboarding, and improving our team’s culture and engagement
- You raise the design bar and can run independently or give direction to designers within your team
- You can lead workshops and effectively align the group around a vision and approach
- You have a track record of working with complex flows and customer journeys
- You can think and design at a system level, not just interface elements or pages
- You are able 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)
- You’ll regularly make use of your soft skills: listening, negotiating, decision-making
- You’ll spend time providing mentorship to other designers
- You’ll play a key part in onboarding, and improving our team’s culture and engagement
What the job involves
- As a Staff Product Designer on Enablement, you'll help us accelerate machine learning at Etsy by designing solutions, systems and processes, and enabling product development teams to solve our most pressing customer needs
- Your internal customers and partners will include engineers, machine learning scientists, analysts, product managers, designers and more
- This role combines technical complexity with high impact — your work will lower the barrier to entry to machine learning, data engineering, experimentation and personalization across our customer experience organization
- Discovering insights, opportunities, and requirements
- Mapping the end-to-end user journey for key workflows applying service design methodology
- Serve as a voice of responsible AI and human-centered ML design principles
- Testing prototypes and hypotheses with users to collect feedback
- Sharing your work to peers and leadership, async and in-person
- Taking part in weekly design critiques, workshops, all hands and squad meetings
- Researching and formulating an opinion on industry trends in human-centered machine learning
- Thinking and writing about your process and documenting your decisions
Our take
Created as an alternative to more corporate eCommerce sites, Etsy is a peer-to-peer (P2P) website where users buy and sell handmade crafts, vintage items, art and photography. The online marketplace works similarly to Amazon and eBay, only with an emphasis on unique items rather than mass-produced merchandise.
Since its IPO in 2015, it has managed to hold its own in an increasingly competitive eCommerce industry, including from Amazon's handmade section that launched in 2015. Further, by providing sellers with ownership over pricing and branding, the site is attractive for those wanting to set up a business on an established platform.
However, the seller-side of Etsy is not without problems. A hike in transaction fees and the introduction of mandatory marketing fees for artists with high turnovers created significant discontent amongst sellers. Despite this, Etsy continues to connect artists and consumers, attracting shoppers with its message of extraordinary, handmade and affordable products.
Freddie
Company Specialist at Welcome to the Jungle
Insights
8% employee growth in 12 months
Company
Funding (last 2 of 6 rounds)
May 2012
$40m
LATE VC
Aug 2010
$20m
SERIES E
Total funding: $91.7m
Company benefits
- Equity (offers vary by country)
- Performance bonuses
- Paid gender neutral parental leave
- Adoption and family planning
- Back-up care
- Volunteer time off
- Donation matching
- Employee resource groups
- Global virtual events
- Employer paid health benefits
- Fitness benefits
- Wellness programming
- Mental health benefits
- 401K matching/Pension contributions
Company HQ
Downtown Brooklyn, NY
Leadership
Josh Silverman
(CEO)Previously senior executive at eBay, CEO of Shopping.com, CEO of Skype and President of Consumer Products & Services at American Express.
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