Product Design Lead - Tradera

Tradera is on a mission to 'Drive the Transition to Sustainable Shopping', by shifting the way how people consume and resell preloved goods.

Product Design is and will always be the core in this shift, and we're now looking for a Product Design Lead that be a key player in this transition. You will lead the definition of what Tradera's digital product experience will be. You will do hands-on design work and lead through the craft. You’ll articulate a shared product vision, influence the product roadmap, create compelling stories and set inspiring creative directions and concepts.

You can’t stop talking about Product Design, UX and collaboration. You listen closely to our end-users and your collaborators and are able to inspire others by executing to an exceptional standard of craft.

You will report directly to Tradera´s Chief Product Officer (CPO).

Consumption has a large impact on our planet. At Tradera, they are determined to use what they control - their business, their voice, their creativity, and their platform to do something about it.

Tradera believe that people deserve a smooth way to care about the planet. Tradera will provide a safe, easy, engaging and beautifully designed shopping experience for the users. Combining state-of-the-art technology and a huge, rich offering of pre-loved goods, Tradera strive to exceed user expectations.

Tradera strives to provide the best sustainable shopping experience, and you can contribute to reaching this goal.

What you'll do

Be responsible for Product Design and UX for the full user journey, both web and apps.
Work day-to-day in cross-functional teams of developers and partner with product- and business stakeholders to design elegant solutions to user- and business challenges.
Rapidly produce multiple concepts and prototypes, and know how and when to create and combine flows, user stories, sketches, wireframes, and deliver pixel-perfect design.
Be autonomous. You take full ownership of your work and you take responsibility for every last detail, from whiteboard sketching to high-fidelity final design.
Work closely with Tradera´s CPO to define the product roadmap.

Who you are:

You have several years of experience working in-house for consumer-facing digital product companies; experience designing for both web and apps is a must.
Top notch user experience, visual design and information hierarchy skills: You should be able to produce very high quality experiences and visual designs.
You have a user- and data-focused design mentality. You are constantly looking to hone your teams instincts through user feedback and data insight. You understand the role and importance of qualitative and quantitative methodologies.
You value inclusive design and accessibility and don’t believe it has to mean compromising aesthetics.
Constantly sketching concepts, tweaking flows, or refining designs that represent the big-thinking work.
You are intimately familiar with the capabilities and constraints of several of today’s and tomorrow’s digital devices and platforms.
Experience working with complex Sketch libraries (at the moment they use Sketch and Abstract). Also, experience working with collaboration and design tools (at the moment they use Zeplin and Figma.
You have strong presentation skills to articulate and present your ideas to developers, product managers and executives at Tradera. Also, the ability to speak confidently to your own design work and convince others of your reasoning.
You have an online portfolio, or PDF that you can share with us. A link to your online portfolio, or a PDF, is required. Applications without a portfolio are unlikely to be considered
You value team success over personal success.
It is a bonus if you have a proven track record working for a startup company.

Tradera

Tradera is Sweden’s largest circular market with more than 2 million product listings every day, ranging from fashion and interior design to tech and collectibles. One of five Swedes have a Tradera account and they have around 4.5 million weekly visits and over 100 bids per seconds during peak traffic.

At Tradera you’ll be working together with a group of talented people who love what they do. For Tradera, it’s important that you enjoy coming to work every day, and therefore they try to create a relaxed and none prestige environment for everyone. They also regularly organize workout sessions at the gym, yoga classes, after works and other fun to get to know each other better.

Tradera´s vision is to drive the transition to sustainable shopping. They are continuously developing their product and the technical platform is the enabler for this.