About the role:
The OfferUp Marketplace team is looking for a Product Designer (fixed term) to bring critical thinking, pragmatism, and strong collaboration skills to foster a more trustworthy local marketplace. You will partner closely with product managers and engineers to define and craft the customer journey, from researching and understanding customer needs to collaborating on final designs. At OfferUp, you can innovate in a mission-driven marketplace that empowers users as they exchange the goods they need for everyday life. In your first 6 months on the job, you’ll be launching features that help millions of customers find what they need and stay safe in the marketplace.
This role will be in Bellevue, Washington.
Here’s more of what you will get to do:
- Execute design through all phases of the product development process – from research and insights, design explorations and iteration, to final design handoff and engineering support.
- Work with project managers and engineering to define the schedule of design phases, deliverables, reviews, and milestones.
- Work with other designers on the UX team to evolve, improve, and maintain our design system to meet the needs of our customers.
- Participate in UX team crits, share work in progress, and provide feedback to other team members.
- Communicate, document, and present design output to senior leadership, team members, and key stakeholders.
- After launching new products and features, collaborate with product managers to identify customer issues and rapidly iterate on solutions.
Who we’re looking for:
- You are a product designer with diverse skills and experience who will be working closely with a lead product designer to execute day-to-day tasks
- You can take complex requirements, customer needs, and business goals and create elegant, simple design solutions that are scalable and easy to use.
- You have a strong foundation in user-centered design.
- You collaborate and communicate clearly and concisely with team members across multiple disciplines to understand and align on opportunities, problems, constraints, and principles guiding design solutions.
- You have experience working within established design systems and understand the importance of consistent, repeatable interaction patterns with customers.
- You are an excellent communicator, both verbally and in writing. You can articulate your design choices, communicate trade-offs, and explain alternatives.
- You thrive in a highly collaborative team environment where we obsess over our customers, elevate our craft, and raise the bar of our customer experience.
You’ll thrive in this role if you have:
- 2+ years of product design for mobile apps and/or web experience, with at least 1 year as a significant contributor to major product design initiatives.
- Bachelor’s degree or higher in Interaction Design, Graphic Design, Industrial Design, HCI, or related field, or equivalent work experience.
- Experience applying user-centered design processes and methodology to product definition, design, and development. You have experience with multiple stages of the design process, including research, sketches, wireframes, high-fidelity mock-ups, prototyping, and usability testing.
- Strong conceptual skills and proven ability to rapidly prototype and design to communicate ideas to others.
- Ability to tailor presentations and reviews to different audiences (working team, department heads, executive team)
- Fluent in the latest design tools such as Figma and proficient at quickly learning new ones.
- A growth mindset.
Helpful, but not required
- 2+ years experience working on eCommerce, or business productivity tools.
- 2+ years working specifically on web-based solutions, including responsive design.
- Deeper specialization in at least one area (IA, Interaction, Visual, Design systems, etc).
- Experience with experimentation and A/B testing, helping guide the journey from ideation through testing and recommendations.
Compensation Range: $72,800 – $124,800
OfferUp offers a comprehensive compensation and benefits package where you’ll be rewarded based on your performance and recognized for the value you bring to the business. Individual salaries within our ranges are determined through a variety of factors, including but not limited to education, experience, knowledge, skills, and geography.
Benefits: In addition to our compensation package, this role is eligible to enroll in health insurance, healthcare savings and spending accounts, basic and voluntary life insurance, disability benefits, and paid time off for sick leave, family and/or medical leave, vacation, and 12 company holidays.
In regard to vacation time, OfferUp has a flexible vacation policy, and, in general, full-time and temporary exempt employees will be expected to take 3-5 weeks (15-30 days) of pre-planned vacation time per year. Vacation needs are flexible and will naturally vary from year to year based on individual circumstances and business needs.
In regard to sick time, all full-time and temporary employees (exempt and non-exempt) will be granted 12 days (96 hours) of sick time per year (pro-rated if the start date is other than January 1). Your recruiter can share more details about specific benefits during the interview process.
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