Senior Product Designer
About thredUP
thredUP is transforming resale with technology and a mission to inspire a new generation of consumers to think secondhand first. By making it easy to buy and sell secondhand, thredUP has become one of the world’s largest resale platforms for women’s and kids’ apparel, shoes and accessories. Sellers love thredUP because we make it easy to clean out their closets and unlock value for themselves or for the charity of their choice while doing good for the planet. Buyers love shopping value, premium and luxury brands all in one place, at up to 90% off estimated retail price. Our proprietary operating platform is the foundation for our managed marketplace and consists of distributed processing infrastructure, proprietary software and systems and data science expertise. In 2018, we extended our platform with thredUP’s Resale-As-A-Service (RaaSⓇ), which facilitates modern resale for a number of the world’s leading brands and retailers. thredUP has processed over 125 million unique secondhand items from 35,000 brands across 100 categories. By extending the life cycle of clothing, thredUP is changing the way consumers shop and ushering in a more sustainable future for the fashion industry.
How You Will Make An Impact
thredUP is looking for a talented Senior Product Designer to join our team. In this strategic role, you will partner closely with product management, data science, brand marketing, research and engineering to lead the design efforts in developing products that help power resale in our core marketplace.
Responsibilities:
- Work with a small, passionate team of product designers and UX researchers to continuously improve our process, and raise our bar for quality and innovation
- Collaborate with cross functional partners to define problems & goals, brainstorm ideas, prototype interactions, conduct research and launch new products and services
- Oversee multiple initiatives from insight and strategy to launching and iterating across all platforms
- Successfully develop and launch high quality work that influences the evolution of thredUP and advances our mission of changing the way a generation views fashion and consumerism
What We're Looking For:
- A strong portfolio that demonstrates outstanding design skills, a principled, user-centric design approach and insights-based design process
- Excellent visual and interaction design skills that can create elegant solutions for complex problems - at scale
- A research and metric-driven approach that will inspire an iterative design process
- Expertise designing across platforms and an understanding of the technical constraints and limitations as they apply to each platform (web, iOS, Android)
- Experience collaborating and building alignment across multiple teams, stakeholders
- Experience launching in a fast-paced product organization where your solutions led to quantifiable improvements
- Capable of self-motivating, prioritizing and managing workload to meet critical project deadlines
- Self-awareness; the ideal candidate will be growth minded with a low-ego approach to working with others
What We Offer:
- 4-day work week with Fridays off
- Competitive salary (we leverage market data) + stock
- Employee stock purchase plan
- Flexible PTO (take the time you need) + 13 company holidays
- Paid Sabbatical after 3 years of full time employment
- Generous paid parental leave for new mothers and fathers
- Medical, dental, vision, 401k, life and disability insurance offered
- We live by our Core Values of Transparency, SpeakingUP, Thinking Big, Infinite Learning, Influencing Outcomes & Seeking the Truth
- Voted “50 Most Innovative Companies of 2020”
- RaaS - Finalist in Fast Company’s World Changing Ideas Awards 2021
- 2021 FORTUNE Change the World Finalist
We believe diversity, inclusion and belonging is key for our team.
At thredUP, our mission has been built on extending the lives of millions of unique clothing items. Much like our inventory, we are proud to have fostered a workplace that is one-of-a-kind. As a company focused on diversity, inclusion and belonging, we are committed to ensuring our employees are comfortable bringing their authentic selves to work every day. A unique perspective is critical to solving complex problems and inspiring a new generation to think secondhand first. Be you.
Please note, our corporate offices are open but in person attendance is optional. For the safety of those on-site, we require that any individuals who wish to attend meetings/activities on-site in corporate offices be fully vaccinated.
If you are a Colorado applicant, please e–mail careers@thredup.com for salary information.
