Company Description
As an Etsy employee, you can do the work you love, be yourself, and make an impact in the lives of millions. Our commitments to diversity and inclusion, team culture and the spaces where we work all reflect our mission to keep commerce human.
Job Description
Whats the role?
The Customer Resolutions team builds and maintains experiences that help Etsy customers quickly resolve their issues through intuitive, seamless self-service tools and support experiences. Through rigorous market and user research, youll explore, ideate, validate, and build products to support the needs of both sides of our marketplaceour buyers and sellersand internal partners.
Youll work with our teams that improve everything from account management and our help center, to helping our sellers understand service standards and tools for our internals teams to keep the marketplace safe. Were looking for someone who can take complex processes and interactions and make them intuitive and streamlined while thinking about the entire customer journey.
What's Product Design like at Etsy?
Typically, product designers at Etsy work in a squad with a product manager, 3-7 engineers, researcher and analyst. Together they drive their own part of Etsy, deliver solutions to challenging problems and get feedback directly from customers.
Day to day, it looks like:
* Discovering insights, opportunities, and requirements
* Testing prototypes and hypotheses with users to collect feedback
* Launching experiments and evaluating how they perform and how to iterate
* Presenting your work to peers and leadership, async and in-person
* Taking part in weekly design critiques, workshops, all hands and squad meetings
* Thinking and writing about your process and documenting your decisions
Qualifications
Senior level at Etsy means:
* You can run independently or give direction to designers within your team
* You can lead workshops and optimally align the group around a vision and approach
* You have a track record of designing complex flows and customer journeys
* You can think and design at a system level, not just interface elements or pages
* Youll regularly make use of your soft skills: listening, negotiating, decision-making
* Youll spend time providing mentorship to other designers
* Youll play a key part in hiring, onboarding, and improving our teams culture and engagement
Qualities we value in designers:
* Effective articulation of ideas and design solutions
* Expressing feedback with kindness and candor
* Tolerance for ambiguity and healthy curiosity
* Translation of quantitative & qualitative insights into design decisions
* Contribution to our culture: motivation, optimism, quality, integrity
Please note: If you are expressing interest by applying to one Product Designer role, your application will automatically be considered for all open positions at that level. Please do not apply to roles at the same level. We have you covered!
Additional Information
At Etsy, we believe that a diverse, equitable and inclusive workplace makes us a more relevant, more competitive, and more resilient company. We welcome people from all backgrounds, ethnicities, cultures, and experiences. Etsy is an equal opportunity employer. We do not discriminate on the basis of race, color, ancestry, religion, national origin, sexual orientation, age, citizenship, marital or family status, disability, gender identity or expression, veteran status, or any other legally protected status. We will ensure that individuals with disabilities are provided a reasonable accommodation to participate in the job application or interview process, to perform essential job functions, and to receive other benefits and privileges of employment. While Etsy supports visa sponsorship, sponsorship opportunities may be limited to certain roles and skillsets.
Brooklyn, NY
Etsy is the global marketplace for unique and creative goods. It’s home to a universe of special, extraordinary items, from unique handcrafted pieces to vintage treasures.
In a time of increasing automation, it’s our mission to keep human connection at the heart of commerce. That’s why we built a place where creativity lives and thrives because it’s powered by people. We help our community of sellers turn their ideas into successful businesses. Our platform connects them with millions of buyers looking for an alternative—something special with a human touch, for those moments in life that deserve imagination.
As a company, we strive to lead with our guiding principles and to help spread ideas of sustainability and responsibility whose impact can reach far beyond our own business.
How Etsy Works
Our global marketplace is a vibrant community of real people connecting over special goods. The platform empowers sellers to do what they love and helps buyers find what they love.
Sell extraordinarily
With low fees, powerful tools, and support and education, we help creative entrepreneurs start, manage, and scale their businesses. Want to become an Etsy seller? All it takes is 20 cents to get started.
Buy extraordinary
From the specific to the unexpected (or custom-made), our search tools help buyers explore all the special one-of-a-kind items offered by Etsy sellers. Our Journal and Editors Picks curate exciting trends and ideas discovered in the marketplace by our own team.
Shop securely
We provide the technology behind the Etsy marketplace, helping buyers and sellers connect and exchange on Etsy. Keeping those connections safe, fun and secure is our priority, and we’re always here to help.