Product Design Manager, Wallapop
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Mobile marketplace for secondhand goods
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Mobile marketplace for secondhand goods
201-500 employees
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201-500 employees
Company mission
Wallapop's mission is to enable a connected trade ecosystem, making 2nd-hand the norm through smart use of technology.
Role
Who you are
- Strong experience in product design, particularly within a marketplace or e-commerce environment
- Proven strong understanding of business models to align user experience design with strategic business objectives
- Proven ability to frame complex problems and develop innovative solutions collaboratively with the team
- Expertise in creating cohesive, user-friendly designs that align seamlessly with brand identity
- Deep understanding of users' needs, emotions and behaviors, coupled with proficiency in using quantitative metrics to discern patterns, extract actionable insights, and make data-informed decisions to craft compelling user experiences
- Advanced skills in cross-functional collaboration to identify and prioritize product improvement opportunities
- Proactive in identifying and incorporating stakeholder requirements into product decisions
- Demonstrated ability to manage and mentor direct reports to deliver significant business outcomes and achieve their career objectives
- Skilled in leveraging senior managers and executives to achieve goals and influence the strategic direction of the product team
What the job involves
- As the Product Design Manager for the Buyer Tribe, you’ll play a critical role in shaping how users explore, evaluate, and ultimately choose second-hand items with confidence
- This is a strategic role with a high impact on growth and marketplace dynamics
- Partner with cross-functional leads and Product Design leadership to evolve the product vision for the business area of your tribe
- Align team priorities and deliverables to the tribe’s business goals
- Develop & maintain key relationships with your business area's stakeholders (Design, Research, Content, Engineering, Product Management, Analytics, etc.)
- Partner with cross-functional tribe leads and Design leadership to the scope and set project priorities and sequencing, milestone planning, resource allocation, and hiring/talent needs to execute against business area objectives
- Partner with research to identify research needs and plan research to address them
- Ensure insights inform tribe strategy and design work
- Lead, coach and mentor the design team, fostering a culture of innovation and collaboration
- Ensure high quality of design thinking and output
- Collaborate with other UX leads to define and foster adoption of user-centric design practices, frameworks and processes
- Ensure effective team communication and information distribution
- Ensure high level of team cohesion and morale
Application process
- Please, note that all interviews take place remotely over hangouts
- Intro Call - run by talent acquisition, focus on providing more information about the role and the company as well as going over your experience, motivation, and expectations. This usually takes 45-60 minutes
- Case Study Submission - you will be assigned a task to submit within 5 up to 7 days where you will be able to showcase your expertise for the role
- Expertise Interview - run by the hiring team, focus on the required core skills and the ability to deliver in a given context. This usually takes 60-90 minutes
- Stakeholder Interview - run by relevant stakeholders reflecting the reality of the context of the role, focus on the ability to collaborate & deliver in a cross-functional set-up. This usually takes 60 minutes
- Culture Interview - run by culture interviewers, focus on adherence to Wallapop's purpose and business proposition. This usually takes 60 minutes
- Offer - should you be the right candidate, your offer will be discussed over a call with talent acquisition and will then be confirmed in writing
Our take
Wallapop has its sights set on becoming a major player in the second hand goods marketplace sector. The hyper-local marketplace helps connect sellers with buyers, much in the style of craigslist or eBay, but with a cleaner and more intuitive mobile-first approach.
Looking at transaction volume, Wallapop beats both Amazon and Ebay in its native Spain, where it has tapped into an increasingly popular consumer trend of mobile shopping, as well as both economic- and environmental-peaked interest in second hand. After a false start in the US market, the company's steps towards international expansion have been slowed - but it does have a modest UK presence and its eyes on much of the EU.
Focusing on the EU could prove to be a smart strategy. The size and popularity of its fashion resale second hand market is rapidly increasing, powered along by the runaway success of apps like Vinted, Depop, and Vestiaire Collective. Wallapop has secured impressive investment that will support existing operations and expansion in Italy, Spain, and Portugal, as well as funding developments in data science and other R&D.
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Company Specialist at Welcome to the Jungle
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Company
Funding (last 2 of 8 rounds)
Feb 2024
$21.7m
SERIES G
Jan 2023
$87.4m
SERIES G
Total funding: $453.3m
Company benefits
- Welcome Package with top hardware of your choice (latest Apple or Windows)
- 2k individual learning budget per year
- Competitive phantom shares package for all employees
- English/Spanish lessons as part of our working day
- Team trainings
- Access to our Wallalibrary
- Flexible working hours + intensive Fridays. Flexitime
- Private Health Insurance (Cigna)
- Andjoy Subscription giving access to a variety of fitness & wellness activities
- Flexible remuneration to deduct from gross salary (kindergarten/food/transport check)
- Extended newborn & adoption leave
- Bonus for weddings & newborns
- 26 days of annual leave
- Monthly plan for free Shipping, bumps & home-pick-up on our services
- Referral Program & Charity Donation
- Wallarenta (Tax Income Support)
- Wallanniversary loyalty program
- Team Building activities
- Team Breakfasts/Dinners
- Free office (virtual) sports classes
- Offsite trips
- 30EUR monthly towards your WIFI as part of your monthly payroll transfer
- One-off payment in your first payroll based on compensation package to go towards setting up your wallahome office
- Modern and inspirational office space with stunning views and a sunny terrace. All built with sustainable and recyclable materials!
- Free Happy Lunch from Monday to Thursday delivered directly to the office
- Gaming Room
- Wallaphysio
- Fruit and coffee
Company HQ
El Clot, Barcelona, Spain
Leadership
Miguel Vicente
(Co-Founder)Chairman and Founder of Tech Barcelona. Chairman and Co-Founder of Antai Ventures. Has also co-founded Glovo and LetsBonus.
Gerard Olivé
(Co-Founder)Co-CEO and Co-Founder of Antai Ventures. Co-founded the INCLIMO Climate Tech Fund. Also founded BeRepublic and Glovo.
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