Company Description
Etsy is the global marketplace for unique and creative goods. We build, power, and evolve the tools and technologies that connect entrepreneurs with buyers around the world. As an Etsy employee, youll tackle unique problems alongside talented coworkers committed to Keeping Commerce Human. We're large enough that you'll focus on meaningful, complex challenges, but small enough that you can make a rewarding impact.
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?
Product designers at Etsy work in a squad alongside a product manager, 3-5 engineers, a researcher and a data analyst. Together they drive their own part of the Etsy customer experience by delivering solutions to challenging problems and getting 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 next steps 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 to help the rest of the design team learn from your work
For candidates who will work remotely from Colorado, visit this link for information related to Colorado's Equal Pay for Equal Work Act.
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:
* Effectively articulates ideas and design solutions
* Expresses feedback with kindness and candor
* Thrives under ambiguity and has a healthy curiosity
* Translates quantitative & qualitative insights into design decisions
* Contributes to our culture of motivation, optimism, quality, and integrity
Interested in applying?
See our tips for interviewing for a design role at Etsy.
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
What's Next
If you're interested in joining the team at Etsy, please send a cover letter and resume telling us why you'd be right for the position. As youve hopefully seen already, Etsy is a place that values individuality and variety. We dont want you to be like everyone else we want you to be like you! So write to us and tell us what youre all about.
Our Promise
At Etsy, we believe that a diverse, equitable, and inclusive workplace makes us a more relevant, more competitive, and more resilient company. We encourage people from all backgrounds, ages, abilities, and experiences to apply. 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, gender identity or expression, pregnancy or caregiver status, veteran status, or any other legally protected status. We will ensure that individuals with disabilities are provided reasonable accommodations to participate in the job application and 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.