Director of Product Design, Frontend Technologies

Vinted; Berlin; Hybrid; EUR 109.000 - 147.000; Vollzeit

Benefits dieser Stelle

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30 days leave

MacBook

Mental health support

Home office budget

Lunch benefit

Team events

Shopping budget

Gym discount

Pension plan

Private health insurance

Life & disability insurance

Deutschlandticket

Workation

Dog-friendly office

Zusammenfassung

Vinted is seeking a Director of Product Design for the Frontend Technologies Domain to raise the quality of the UI experienced by tens of millions of users. You will partner with Engineering & Data Science to balance developer velocity with exceptional end-user experiences and build foundational capabilities for scale across all platforms.

You will lead multiple teams, shape design infrastructure and frontend technology at scale, and drive cross-functional alignment, while promoting

Qualifikationen

• Proven track record leading design infrastructure and frontend tech at scale.
• Experience leading organizational change and adapting team structures to evolving needs.
• Coaching managers and senior individual contributors.
• Excellent communicator capable of explaining trade-offs to stakeholders.
• Bonus: experience driving AI-enabled frontend design and development.

Aufgaben

• Increase frontend delivery efficiency and quality (AI-powered software development).
• Increase internal tool quality and delivery efficiency.
• Ensure accessibility compliance across services.
• Increase impactfulness and quality of Vinted UI.
• Maintain a high performing, engaged team and allocate priority and resources.

Kenntnisse

Craft leadership

Design systems

Frontend architecture

Organizational change

Coaching managers

Communication skills

AI enablement

Jobbeschreibung

Brief Info About Vinted

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.

Brief Info About Vinted

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.

The Vinted Group is made up of three business units that support this mission.

Vinted Marketplace

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.

Vinted Go

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.

Vinted Pay

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.

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.

Information About The Position

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 & Data Science counterparts, building foundational technical capabilities to balance developer velocity with an exceptional end‑user experience.

In this position, you’ll

• Increase frontend delivery efficiency & quality (AI-powered software development)
• Increase internal tool quality and delivery efficiency
• Ensure that our services comply with accessibility regulations
• Increase impactfulness and quality of Vinted UI
• Maintain a high performing and engaged team, make timely, high-quality decisions concerning priority setting and resource allocation.

About You

• An exceptional level of craft leadership, holding a consistently high bar for end‑to‑end quality and autonomously setting the product's visual strategy
• Proven experience leading design infrastructure, design systems, and frontend technologies at scale
• Track record of leading organizational change, comfortably adapting team structures and processes to meet evolving business needs
• Demonstrated experience managing multiple teams or a domain, including coaching managers and senior individual contributors
• Are an excellent communicator, capable of articulating complex design and technical trade-offs to cross‑functional stakeholders
• Bonus points for technical fluency and experience driving AI‑enable­ment in frontend development and design process.

Work perks

• The opportunity to benefit from our share options programme
• 30 days of paid annual leave
• Newest MacBook models
• Digital mental and emotional health support and Employee Assistant Program (EAP)
• Home office support: we provide IT workstation equipment and a personal budget of up to €540 for home workplace furniture
• Lunch benefit per your workday
• Frequent team‑building events
• A personal monthly budget for shopping on Vinted
• Access to a discounted gym membership plan
• Pension Plan with Vinted matching 150% of your chosen contribution
• Supplemental Private Health Insurance
• Life and Disability insurance
• A subsidised Deutschlandticket for your commute to the office by public transport
• The opportunity to spend up to 90 days per year - 21 of which can be spent working outside of the EU - on workation
• A dog-friendly office

Working at Vinted

Individual Learning Budget

We invest in your professional growth! As part of our commitment to continuous learning, we offer an annual learning budget to support your personal and career development through courses, certifications, workshops and more.

Hybrid Work

We’ve adopted a hybrid workplace model where 2 days in the office are recommended but not enforced. It’s up to you and your team to decide on the exact days you’ll spend working together in person.

Equal Opportunity

The Vinted Group is committed to building an inclusive workplace where people from all walks of life feel a sense of belonging. We welcome applications from people of all backgrounds, identities and life experiences. At Vinted, all applicants are treated fairly without regard to their race, age, religion or belief, sex, national origin, citizenship, gender identity, sexual orientation, disability, or any other protected characteristic.

The annual gross salary range for this position is:

€108.800—€147.200 EUR