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Senior Product Designer 🔥


Who are we?

Welcome to Vinterior, the new home of vintage. We think there’s a better alternative to brand new – our purpose is to champion vintage for a more characterful and sustainable world.

Vinterior launched in 2016 with 12 London dealers and 200 mid-century furniture pieces. In five years, we’ve grown to 1,800 vintage sellers across Europe, listing 200,000+ products across 97 furniture and homeware categories and generating over $600 million in sales worldwide.

After growing 120% in 2020, we’ve become the leading vintage marketplace in the UK. And we’re not stopping there. We’ve raised a $10m Series A to accelerate growth and expand into new markets, with the mission to become the #1 vintage platform in Europe by love and scale.

About the Product team:

Vinterior comprises a team of 43, including 7 in engineering and 5 in Product (3 PMs, 1 Product designer and 1 Product analyst)

We currently have 2 cross-functional squads, growing into 3 squads, plus a varying number of stakeholders, and we’re looking to hire an experienced Product designer to support 1 or 2 of our squads. The team with a diverse range of nationalities is spread across Europe, in the UK, Ireland, France, Spain, Portugal, Hungary and the Netherlands.

We love to experiment and are currently working in quarterly cycles where the Product designer is a key contributor to the discovery phase, uncovering customer insights that lead to better prioritisation of the roadmap.

Problems we’re solving

With big ambitions come big problems. Here are some of the biggest challenges we face:

  • Organic growth. We have been growing organically by making our large inventory highly discoverable on Google and delivering a great experience for our customers. We will further invest in organic growth by continuing to optimise our site for SEO, creating content at scale, and making the customer journey seamless with performance and conversion rate optimisations.
  • Search and discoverability. With over 1 million listings added to our marketplace, we have to automate curation and improve our discovery experience to help customers find the perfect pieces that match their needs, tastes and budget. This ranges from improving inventory data quality at scale to crafting a better search experience and offering personalised recommendations.
  • Shopping experience. How do we help users choose the right item for them at the best price. With our large selection of inventory, we need to help the user to make that final decision to purchase on Vinterior. We strive to make that shopping experience as smooth and delightful as possible, solving the pain points for both buyers and sellers during that experience.

Our company values

Our interview process looks for people who share our company values [1]:

  • Think Big
  • Keep Learning
  • Show Grit
  • Embrace Transparency
  • One Team
  • Show Customers the Love
  • Champion Sustainability

The more our values sound like you and describe people you’d enjoy working with, the more likely you’ll thrive at Vinterior.

 

Job Responsibilities

  • Contributing to small cross-functional squads working on product initiatives from idea until launch.
  • Lead on user research and user testing on product opportunities and offer more generative user research that will deepen our understanding of our users.
  • Take broad, conceptual ideas and shape them into something valuable that can be delivered by the squad.
  • Design flows and experiences that are incredibly simple and meet our brand guidelines.
  • Contribute to uncovering what a great product design and development process looks like at Vinterior.
  • Help to raise awareness, understanding and appreciation of design at Vinterior.
  • Collaborate with other departments like Brand and SEO to offer a user experience that is both delightful and impactful.
  • Reporting to the CPO, you will provide design leadership within the product organisation and may also manage another product designer.

Requirements

  • 3-5+ years of professional experience as a product designer
  • An online portfolio which demonstrates your UX and visual design flair
  • Ability to own the design process end-to-end from conception to implementation.
  • Ability to plan and conduct user research and usability testing in a remote environment.
  • Demonstrated experience with end-to-end (UX and UI) product design for the web
  • Solid visual design skills.
  • Proficiency with design and prototyping tools (e.g., Figma, Sketch)
  • A strong understanding of user interaction patterns and design industry standards.
  • Excellent communication and writing skills.
  • Ability to clearly articulate design decisions.
  • Experience working with engineers, product owners and other members of cross-functional teams.
  • Ability to decide and create appropriate design deliverables for each stage of the design and development process.
  • Experience designing experiences that span across multiple devices.
  • Love learning

Bonus if you have any of the following:

  • Experience working with design systems
  • Previous experience in the retail space
  • Worked in a startup
  • Worked in a remote team

What to expect when you apply

  • You can expect to hear back from us within 1 week.
  • We’ll organise a first video call to talk you through the role and learn a bit more about you and your portfolio. This will likely be with our CPO
  • We'll organise a live task with a Product manager and Product designer, during which you will go through an ideation and quick wireframing session.
  • There will be a culture and values assessment with our Brand Director.
  • If all goes well, we will make an offer to you as soon as possible.

Thanks for being patient, and we’ll be in touch if we’re keen to take your application further. We’ll also notify all applicants once the role has been filled. Vinterior is passionate about championing diversity and treats each application equally and respectfully.

Benefits

  • Employee equity
  • 25 days paid leave + 8 bank holidays
  • Charity days - paid leave to support your chosen charity
  • Flexible working hours; up to 2 hours +- normal working hours
  • Optional co-working facilities
  • Monthly health and wellbeing allowance
  • ThanksBen, flexible benefits platform (private medical insurance, pension scheme)
  • Employee discount across our Vinterior platform
  • CharlieHR discounts and employee perks
  • Training budget for workshops, online training, conferences etc.
  • Macbook + £300 new starter allowance to ensure you have the perfect home set up

Remote working

Remote workingWe operate on British office hours, so we’re looking for people who are fully available to work during these hours.

Stable internet connectionThis is a remote role, so please check that you have a suitable and stable internet connection before applying.

No recruitment consultants please. Visa Sponsorship not available.


  1. https://www.notion.so/Vinterior-ba2940b7744a4ec180b8a4d5f07c7e21

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