Senior Product Manager, Depop

Trust & Safety

Salary not provided
Mid and Senior level
London

Can be remote from UK

1 day a week in office (London)

Depop

The community-driven fashion marketplace

Job no longer available

Depop

The community-driven fashion marketplace

201-500 employees

B2CMarketplaceSustainabilityFashionSocial

Job no longer available

Salary not provided
Mid and Senior level
London

Can be remote from UK

1 day a week in office (London)

201-500 employees

B2CMarketplaceSustainabilityFashionSocial

Company mission

Our mission is to build the world’s most diverse progressive home of fashion. Our team is dedicated to enhancing and developing the Depop experience to serve the needs of our global community.

Role

Who you are

  • 4+ years of product management experience
  • Strong analytical skills and ability to use data to inform product decisions and drive continuous improvement
  • Excellent communication skills and ability to collaborate effectively with cross-functional teams and external partners
  • Strong understanding of e-commerce marketplaces and the unique trust and safety challenges they face
  • Things that would be useful, but are not essential:
  • Previous experience working in Trust & Safety, Account Security or Fraud
  • Previous experience working in a marketplace business
  • Experience working with data science teams to develop ML models and integrating them into the product
  • A love of fashion, especially if you’re already part of the Depop community

What the job involves

  • Role:
  • We’re currently hiring for a Senior Product Manager to lead the Trust & Safety team. We are open to remote candidates in the UK and travel to the London office 1x a month is preferred. You’ll report to a member of the Product Leadership Team
  • Responsibilities:
  • Develop and lead the Trust and Safety product roadmap for the Depop marketplace, defining the product vision and strategy for Depop’s 4 trust and safety focus areas:
  • Inventory safety
  • Personal safety
  • Account security
  • Financial safety
  • Partner with data science and policy teams to proactively moderate the risks to our platform, marketplace integrity, fraud, abuse, and other forms of malicious activity
  • Work with design and engineering teams to develop user facing product features that prevent malicious activity from occurring, such as user verification, educational nudges and account security
  • Collaborate with our operations teams to ensure that our trust and safety policies and procedures are clearly defined and effectively communicated to our users
  • Monitor and analyse key performance metrics related to trust and safety, and use data to inform product decisions and drive continuous improvement
  • Build strong relationships with internal stakeholders and external partners to drive alignment and collaboration on trust and safety initiatives
  • Stay up-to-date on industry trends and best practices related to trust and safety, and use this knowledge to inform product decisions and drive innovation

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Top investors

-7% employee growth in 12 months

Company

Company benefits

  • MyMode is our hybrid-working model, designed to empower our employees to choose a working mode that works for them. MyMode is composed of 3 working modes: Flex, Office Based and Remote
  • Flex: we'd love you to head to your nearest Depop office once a week, but feel free to work from home the rest of the week
  • Office: Want to head into the office more? No problem, you can opt to be "Office-Based", with your very own desk
  • Remote: depending on your role you can request to be a remote worker, and only head into the office 4 times per year
  • Our parental leave policies aim to support and enable parents to play equal roles in nurturing their families, in a way that is flexible and truly gender-neutral
  • Our full-time regular employees are eligible for 18 weeks of paid parental leave for the birth or adoption of their child. We also offer IVF leave, shared parental leave and paid emergency parent/carer leave
  • Cash-plan or PMI - you have the choice of a healthcare plan that best suits you
  • Subsidised counselling and coaching - we partner with Selfspace to provide you with the opportunity for a good conversation with a qualified person
  • Cycle to Work scheme - choose between Evans or the Green Commute Initiative to help access a bike for your commute
  • Employee Assistance Programme (EAP) - have access to a confidential support network of expert advice 24/7
  • Mental Health First Aiders - we have trained individuals across the business to offer support and signposting
  • 25 days annual leave with the option to carry over up to 5 days
  • 1 company-wide day off per quarter, for you to take some time for yourself and decompress
  • We offer budgets for conferences, learning subscriptions and more. We also sponsor and run a myriad of programmes, conferences and meet-ups to upskill our employees and enhance their journey with us
  • We’re Flexa® accredited, meaning we offer genuinely flexible working
  • Life Insurance (financial compensation of 3x your salary)
  • Pension (Depop will match your contribution up to 6% of your qualifying earnings)

Funding (last 2 of 8 rounds)

Jun 2019

$62m

SERIES C

Jan 2018

$20m

SERIES B

Total funding: $100.4m

Our take

The re-sale market across everyday clothing, collectables and luxury is growing. One driving force of this is that people care more about sustainability and are therefore buying second-hand goods. This has resulted in a fast growing market with plenty of opportunity.

The experience on Depop is what you'd expect from platforms such as Instagram. The focus on social, creators and influencers has created a very high level of engagement.

Depop was quick to realise the value in power users and has focused efforts there (where people are generating up to $100,000 in annual income for themselves by selling items). The popularity of social platforms making individuals into entrepreneurs will likely attract interest from Instagram and Pinterest. This may pose a challenge for Depop as these competitors will be in a strong position to leverage their networks.

The company has been acquired by Etsy and is now focusing on strategic partnerships in several industries to keep market share flowing in.

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Kirsty

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