Product Manager, Inventory Initiative (12-Month FTC)

Company Description

Depop is the community-powered circular fashion marketplace where anyone can buy, sell and discover desirable secondhand fashion. With a community of over 35 million users, Depop is on a mission to make fashion circular, redefining fashion consumption. Founded in 2011, the company is headquartered in London, with offices in New York and Manchester, and in 2021 became a wholly-owned subsidiary of Etsy. Find out more at www.depop.com

Our mission is to make fashion circular and to create an inclusive environment where everyone is welcome, no matter who they are or where they’re from. Just as our platform connects people globally, we believe our workplace should reflect the diversity of the communities we serve. We thrive on the power of different perspectives and experiences, knowing they drive innovation and bring us closer to our users. We’re proud to be an equal opportunity employer, providing employment opportunities without regard to age, ethnicity, religion or belief, gender identity, sex, sexual orientation, disability, pregnancy or maternity, marriage and civil partnership, or any other protected status. We’re continuously evolving our recruitment processes to ensure fairness and are open to accommodating any needs you might have.

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We’re currently hiring for a Product Manager to work in the Inventory initiative team. Our vision is to make Depop the easiest place to turn items into shoppable inventory - in our mission to make fashion circular.

This product team works to build experiences that help sellers of all shapes and sizes succeed on Depop, and meet sellers where they operate and manage their businesses. Your team will own AI-enabled experiences that are exciting, differentiating and loved by our users. You will report to the Staff Product Manager who leads the Inventory initiative, as part of the wider Supply product org.

Responsibilities

Vision, strategy and roadmap:

• Define and drive the web sellers product vision, as it relates to the wider Inventory and Supply product strategy.
  
  

Deciding What To Build

• Working with product squad leadership (designer, engineering manager) to prioritise features that deliver the highest impact against quarterly objectives, the wider Inventory and Supply strategy, within constraint of the teams’ resources.
• Combine user research, rigorous data exploration and technical guidance to make informed decisions about the vital few worth building, what to not pursue and when to adjust focus where necessary. You iterate on hypotheses and solutions as you learn.
• Scope and effectively prioritise new features to ensure the right balance between effort and impact.
• Have a point of view on what seller features and tools belong on web vs. app vs. any other channel, based on the type of sellers who use it, the types of problems we are solving, and the inherent strengths of web-based vs. app-based experiences.
  
  

Product Execution

• Work with squad leadership to ensure solutions are simple, intuitive, and web-optimised - ensuring break-points, mobile web, responsiveness are considered when building web experiences and features.
• Working with the engineering team to ensure features are built to specifications, championing quality and product excellence.
• Leverage experimentation when appropriate to test and learn against hypotheses, capitalising on the ability to fail fast and learn faster through web development.
• Recognising obstacles to the team, and making sure they are escalated or resolved before they impact delivery. Keeping effort vs value at the forefront of your decision making.
  
  

Keeping Everyone Aligned And Informed

• Aligning with the Staff Product Manager and the functional leadership on the priorities and strategic goals of the wider product area.
• Motivating the team and giving them the context they need to reach their potential.
• Identifying and leveraging the expertise of key functional stakeholders (e.g. Engineering, Design, Product Marketing) and other product squads to help shape and execute on the vision for your area and fully understanding the opportunities, potential solutions, and constraints.
• Motivating the team and giving them the context they need to reach their potential.
• Creating and fostering a team culture that keeps people engaged and focused.
  
  

Requirements

• Experience working on mobile app/web products: demonstrated experience in product execution and mobile experience delivery. You have led an engineering team to build out digital features and experiences in an agile, iterative way.
• Robust technical understanding: You have a good understanding of web development, and are able to challenge engineers on their assumptions and have productive conversations about size and scope of web features.
• Great leadership and sense of ownership: You own the web sellers experience, and make decisions that steer the team and the product in the right direction, against our overall company and sellers strategy.
• Collaborative, excellent communication skills and executive presence: Inventory is at the core of our company differentiation - you will need to build relationships with senior stakeholders across product, strategy and operations, and engineering.
• Strategic and commercial acumen: you must be able to balance commercial and user requirements when prioritising features the team is building.
• Strong accountability and ownership: you create order in the world around you and get huge satisfaction from delivering the highest quality features.
• Previous experience as a Product Manager/Product Owner in an agile environment
• Experience working with experimentation and A/B testing.
• Experience working with AI products, Gen AI and LLMs preferred.
  
  

Additional Information

Health + Mental Wellbeing

• PMI and cash plan healthcare access with Bupa
• Subsidised counselling and coaching with Self Space
• Cycle to Work scheme with options from Evans or the Green Commute Initiative
• Employee Assistance Programme (EAP) for 24/7 confidential support
• Mental Health First Aiders across the business for support and signposting
  
  

Work/Life Balance

• 25 days annual leave with option to carry over up to 5 days
• 1 company-wide day off per quarter
• Impact hours: Up to 2 days additional paid leave per year for volunteering
• Fully paid 4 week sabbatical after completion of 5 years of consecutive service with Depop, to give you a chance to recharge or do something you love.
• Flexible Working: MyMode hybrid-working model with Flex, Office Based, and Remote options *role dependant
• All offices are dog-friendly
• Ability to work abroad for 4 weeks per year in UK tax treaty countries
  
  

Family Life

• 18 weeks of paid parental leave for full-time regular employees
• IVF leave, shared parental leave, and paid emergency parent/carer leave
  
  

Learn + Grow:

• Budgets for conferences, learning subscriptions, and more
• Mentorship and programmes to upskill employees
  
  

Your Future

• Life Insurance (financial compensation of 3x your salary)
• Pension matching up to 6% of qualifying earnings
  
  

Depop Extras

• Employees enjoy free shipping on their Depop sales within the UK.
• Special milestones are celebrated with gifts and rewards!