Director of Product Design, Frontend Technologies

Vinted group.; Amsterdam; On-site; EUR 150,000 - 190,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

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25 days leave

Home office budget

Mental health support

Company bike

WFH allowance

Shopping budget

Pension plan

Public transport card

Dog-friendly office

Job summary

Vinted seeks a Director of Product Design for the Frontend Technologies Domain in Amsterdam to elevate the global UI across tens of millions of members. You will collaborate with Engineering and Data Science to build foundational capabilities that balance developer velocity with a superb user experience.

You will lead a high-impact design organization, drive frontend quality and accessibility, and guide strategic decisions on priority and resources while shaping the product’s visual direction.

Qualifications

• Exceptional craft leadership with high end-to-end quality
• Experience leading design infrastructure, design systems at scale
• Track record of organizational change and evolving team structures
• Experience managing multiple teams or a domain and coaching staff
• Ability to articulate design and technical trade-offs to stakeholders
• Bonus: experience driving AI-enabled frontend development and design processes

Responsibilities

• Increase frontend delivery efficiency and quality (AI-enhanced development)
• Improve internal tool quality and delivery efficiency
• Ensure accessibility compliance of services
• Elevate impact and quality of Vinted UI
• Lead a high-performing, engaged team with informed priority setting and resourcing

Skills

Craft leadership

Design systems

Frontend technologies

AI in frontend

Communication

Job description

Design

Amsterdam, Netherlands

Vinted Marketplace

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.
• The opportunity to benefit from our share options programme
• 25 days of paid annual leave
• Digital mental and emotional health support and Employee Assistant Program (EAP)
• Frequent team‑building events
• Home office support: we provide IT workstation equipment and a personal budget of up to €540 for home workplace furniture
• Company bike leasing scheme
• Monthly budget for a flexible benefits platform
• Work from Home allowance
• A personal monthly budget for shopping on Vinted
• Collective Defined Contribution Pension plan
• NS Business Card for your commute to the office by public transport
• A dog‑friendly office

Working at Vinted

Workation Policy

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.

Individual Learning Budget

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.

Hybrid Work

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.

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!

The annual gross salary range for this position excluding 8% holiday pay is: