Director of Product Design, Frontend Technologies

About the company

Vinted is a second-hand marketplace that connects buyers and sellers and operates integrated logistics and payments services.

About this role

<div class="content-intro"><h2><strong>Brief info about Vinted&nbsp;</strong></h2> <p data-renderer-start-pos="1"><span data-sheets-root="1">Our mission is to make second-hand the first choice, and we're looking for people who want to help us get there. Every day, we work together to help our members buy and sell pre-loved clothing and lifestyle items, giving each piece a second life – or even a third. <br>The Vinted Group is made up of three business units that support this mission:<br><br><strong><a href="https://careers.vinted.com/marketplace" target="_blank">Vinted Marketplace</a></strong> is Europe’s leading platform for second-hand fashion and a go-to destination for all kinds of pre-loved items, with a growing range of categories. Our platform connects millions of members across 20+ markets, helping great items find a new life.<br><br><a href="https://careers.vinted.com/vintedgo" target="_blank"><strong>Vinted Go</strong></a> enhances the shipping experience with a vast network of over 500,000 pick-up and drop-off points, partnering with more than 60 carriers across Europe, with added services like item verification for peace of mind on high-value pieces.<br><br><a href="https://careers.vinted.com/vintedpay" target="_blank"><strong>Vinted Pay</strong></a> is the newest part of the Vinted Group, dedicated to bringing secure, reliable payments to buyers and sellers across Europe. Seamlessly integrated into the Vinted app, it helps keep every transaction safe, efficient, and easy for our members.<br><br>Founded in 2008 in Lithuania, Vinted began as a way for friends to find new homes for clothes they no longer needed. In 2019, we became Lithuania's first unicorn! Today, our headquarters remain in Vilnius, and we've grown with offices across Europe, supported by a team of over 2,000 people.&nbsp;</span></p></div><h2><strong>Information about the position&nbsp;</strong></h2> <p>As the Director of Product Design for the Frontend Technologies Domain, you will establish the foundation that enables high-quality experiences across all aspects of Vinted user experience. Your mandate is to increase the quality of the global UI for tens of millions of members. You will share accountability over domain’s success with your Engineering &amp; Data Science counterparts, building foundational technical capabilities to balance developer velocity with an exceptional end-user experience.</p> <h2><strong>In this position, you’ll&nbsp;</strong></h2> <ul> <li>Increase frontend delivery efficiency &amp; quality (AI-powered software development)</li> <li>Increase internal tool quality and delivery efficiency</li> <li>Ensure that our services comply with accessibility regulations</li> <li>Increase impactfulness and quality of Vinted UI&nbsp;</li> <li>Maintain a high performing and engaged team, make timely, high-quality decisions concerning priority setting and resource allocation.</li> </ul> <h2><strong>About you&nbsp;</strong></h2> <ul> <li>An exceptional level of craft leadership, holding a consistently high bar for end-to-end quality and autonomously setting the product's visual strategy</li> <li>Proven experience leading design infrastructure, design systems, and frontend technologies at scale</li> <li>Track record of leading organizational change, comfortably adapting team structures and processes to meet evolving business needs</li> <li>Demonstrated experience managing multiple teams or a domain, including coaching managers and senior individual contributors</li> <li>Are an excellent communicator, capable of articulating complex design and technical trade-offs to cross-functional stakeholders</li> <li>Bonus points for technical fluency and experience driving AI-enablement in frontend development and design process.</li> </ul> <h2><strong>Work perks&nbsp; </strong></h2> <ul> <li>The opportunity to benefit from our share options programme</li> <li>25 days of paid annual leave</li> <li>Newest MacBook models</li> <li>Digital mental and emotional health support and Employee Assistant Program (EAP)</li> <li>Frequent team-building events</li> <li>Home office support: we provide IT workstation equipment and a personal budget of up to €540 for home workplace furniture</li> <li>Lunch benefit per working day</li> <li>Company bike leasing scheme</li> <li>Monthly budget for a flexible benefits platform</li> <li>Work from Home allowance</li> <li>Access to a discounted gym membership plan</li> <li>A personal monthly budget for shopping on Vinted</li> <li>Collective Defined Contribution Pension plan</li> <li>NS Business Card for your commute to the office by public transport</li> <li>A dog-friendly office</li> </ul> <h2><strong>Working at Vinted&nbsp;</strong></h2> <p><strong>Workation Policy</strong></p> <p>Better balance holidays with workdays by working remotely! Up to 90 days per year in the EU, of these, 21 days can be spent globally. For non-EU citizens, it's 21 days worldwide. This can be combined with time off for vacation or personal time.</p> <p><strong>Individual Learning Budget</strong></p> <p>Each year, you’ll be given a learning budget (starting at €3,000), and a total of up to 10 working days over a 2-year period to support your personal and professional development.</p> <p><strong>Hybrid Work</strong>&nbsp;</p> <p>Our hybrid model, with 2 recommended office days a week, gives you and your team the flexibility to decide if and when you want to work from home, and when to catch up in person.</p> <p><strong>Equal Opportunity</strong></p> <p>We welcome applications from everybody, regardless of your background, identity, or life experiences. Job openings come with guides, not checklists. If you’re excited about a role, but don’t identify with every point in the ‘About you’ section, apply anyway – you might still be the perfect match!</p><div class="content-pay-transparency"><div class="pay-input"><div class="title">The annual gross salary range for this position excluding 8% holiday pay is:</div><div clas