Intermediate Product Designer

Trade Me Role Description

At Trade Me, we're about connecting Kiwi to create the life they want. Whether it's the big things like finding a home, a job, a car or growing their business, or the smaller things, like finding that right bedside table or parting ways with some old stuff. At Trade Me our vision is to be the place where Kiwi look first.

Our product designers are responsible for crafting the look, feel, and functionality of our digital products. You'll design engaging solutions that meet both user and business needs in a 'Trade Me' way, demonstrating a bias for action, strong communication skills, and the ability to collaborate openly across the wider Trade Me business.

Here is what you can expect from this role:

• Produce elegant, usable, and responsive user interfaces and experiences ensuring accessibility, technical constraints are met and actively contributing to and helping grow the design system and wider design practice.
  
• Strategically advocate for UX, understanding business unit challenges and objectives, connecting design decisions to their measured business impact.
  
• Clearly communicate ideas and design rationale to diverse audiences, actively seeking and providing feedback, and influencing decisions based on data and best design practices.
  
• Collaborate cross-functionally with teams & stakeholders, applying design thinking to develop effective design solutions and prioritise efforts.
  
• Be curious, self-driven, and proactive in seeking new opportunities and learning, looking to expand your influence and contribute beyond day-to-day tasks.
  
• Take ownership of the user experience within your diamond (product owner, product manager & lead software engineer) demonstrating strong time management & influence.
  
• Identify and champion use cases for AI to remove manual toil. This includes leveraging our Trade Me’s internal AI/ML stack to build smarter, self-optimising journeys that scale and drive great customer and business value
  
• Ideate, prototype, and communicate future design concepts.

What you will bring to our team:

• 4+ years’ experience in similar design roles, ideally within an internal team however an agency background would be considered.
• Figma, prototyping software.
  
• A portfolio demonstrating projects from end to end.
  
• A solid understanding of Material Design guidelines for Android and Human Interface Guidelines for iOS.
  
• Knowledgeable in best practices & hands-on experience in user testing and user research.
  
• Strong collaborator - you proactively seek open collaboration with other designers, squad members and stakeholders.
  
• Strong communicator - you will be able to explain ideas simply & clearly, listen carefully to others, proactively improve team communication.
  
• Curious - you’re driven to understand our consumers and their problems deeply.
  
• Empathetic - Objective, open to a diversity of thought, strives to understand our users.
  
• Organised - able to manage your time well and deliver on commitments.

You'll have the best time working at Trade Me, and this is why:

#AI and Tech: We live and breathe AI in our daily tasks. We value curiosity and an open mind towards new tech, offering dedicated AI skilling to help you grow and thrive in a fast-changing landscape.
#Flexibility: Flexibility means different things to different people and we support you to find what works, including a home office set up and utilities allowance. We value team connection and come together in person on Monday and at least one other day a week.
#Wellness: Being your best self means caring for your physical and mental wellbeing, we offer lots of resources to help you along the way.
#Leave: We support you with leave when you need it, including 5 days of wellness leave each year and 10 days of sick leave from day 1.
#Social: Nothing beats getting together to have some fun and celebrate our success. Join us in the office on payday for company paid lunches. Regular Friday drinks and nibbles, annual Trade Me company awards, celebrations and more.
#Learning: Whether it's on the job, formal training, or mentoring, you'll grow with us from Day 1. We're big on internal mobility and look to our own talent first for new opportunities.

We know some candidates can be reluctant to apply for roles if they feel they don't 'tick all the boxes'. If you're excited about this opportunity, we'd still really like to hear from you so please send us your resume and a short cover note outlining the “Why”.

Trade Me is an INZ accredited employer. We truly value diversity and embrace a flexible workplace where people are encouraged to achieve their potential.

Check out the job description for this role here.