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Senior Product Designer

At eBay, were more than a global ecommerce leader — were changing the way the world shops and sells. Our platform empowers millions of buyers and sellers in more than 190 markets around the world. Were committed to pushing boundaries and leaving our mark as we reinvent the future of ecommerce for enthusiasts. Our customers are our compass, authenticity thrives, bold ideas are welcome, and everyone can bring their unique selves to work — every day. Were in this together, sustaining the future of our customers, our company, and our planet. Join a team of passionate thinkers, innovators, and dreamers — and help us connect people and build communities to create economic opportunity for all.

eBay is a global commerce leader that shapes how the world buys, sells, and gives. Youll be part of a work culture thats been genuinely committed to diversity and inclusion since its founding more than 20 years ago. Here, you can just be yourself, do your best work, and have an important impact on people across the globe. We are looking for people with drive, ideas, and a passion for supporting small businesses to help shape the future of eBay—does this sound like you? If so, wed love to talk to you!

Description

As a Product Designer for the Seller Experience space, youll be a part of eBays core design team. This role will envision and craft outstanding user experiences for the worlds largest online marketplace with over 135 million shoppers and 25+ million sellers. Using design creativity and user-centered design principles, you will work with cross-functional teams that are reinventing the social, mobile, local commerce landscape on a grand scale to address exciting new business opportunities. Your responsibility in this role is to craft elegant and simple interfaces that solve complex interaction problems. Strong interaction design skills underpinned by strong visual design and content design skills are required for this role. An understanding of how to operate as a designer in a highly cross-functional environment is critical for this role.

About you

Youll need strong attention to detail as well as an eagerness to tackle design problems at scale. You should be knowledgeable about our competitors, understand established design patterns and standards methodologies, but always feel the need to do better. Youll make things elegant, beautiful, smart — and drive engagement and loyalty to eBay. We work across the product development cycle and pride ourselves for solving really big problems with design thinking. You will collaborate with our data, design, product and engineering teams and be responsible for creating ideas, communications, and interface for the sellers experience.

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About the team and the role:

As a Senior Product Designer on the Local Design team within Seller Experience, youll help evolve a critical part of how buyers and sellers connect on eBay—enabling local, in-person commerce that strengthens trust and community. Local buying and selling is a meaningful extension of the eBay marketplace, and this team plays a key role in shaping how buyers discover nearby inventory and how sellers connect with buyers to complete transactions in person. Youll join a highly collaborative, cross-functional team focused on improving core parts of the local experience across platforms. The team is driving an ambitious, multi-year roadmap and is deeply invested in research-led design. In this role, youll contribute to ongoing discovery and experimentation efforts while taking ownership of key areas of the experience, helping translate insights into thoughtful, scalable solutions. This is an opportunity for a senior designer to influence direction, elevate design quality, and help define the future of local commerce on eBay.

What you will accomplish:

  • Create outstanding, user-centered designs incorporating business requirements, product findings, and customer feedback
  • Design end-to-end experiences for how key information such as pricing appears across the buyer and seller experience
  • Develop conceptual diagrams, wireframes, visual mockups, and prototypes
  • Collaborate with partner teams to co-create scalable experiences that balance user needs with business objectives
  • Understand both seller and buyer experiences to create holistic end-to-end solutions
  • Leverage eBays existing design system into your solutions while also being able to thoughtfully contribute new additions to it
  • Communicate design work and drive future direction with peers, researchers, design leaders, product partners and executives through strong verbal, written, and visual presentation skills
  • Regularly present to leadership and key XFN stakeholders to collect feedback and iterate to strengthen the work

What you will bring:

  • 6-8 years of experience in Product Design
  • Bachelors degree in Interaction Design/HCI or equivalent experience
  • Deep understanding of the user-centered design process
  • Strong storytelling skills to craft compelling narratives that are tailored to different audiences
  • Experience partnering with Content Design to effectively leverage copy to help craft a compelling experience for users
  • Experience in Design Research, including competitive analysis, qualitative interviews, leveraging quantitative metrics to drive decisions, and crafting insights from observation
  • Deep understanding of working with design systems as well as experience on how to thoughtfully improve upon them
  • Specialist in prototyping and designing in Figma for multiple devices including mobile, tablet, and desktop
  • Experience working with buyer/seller marketplaces
  • Leadership – self-starter with proactive stance toward achieving success on projects
  • Strong interaction design skills and visual design skills, as well as a strong grasp of English language in order to create and share simple user flows
  • Strong social skills – build effective working relationships with other design teams and within other domains such as Product, Engineering, Marketing
  • Facilitation - Plan, coordinate and lead workshops and design sprints with cross functional partners and teams to gain alignment on new initiatives and product strategy
  • A portfolio that showcases relevant design projects and includes your process, design explorations and final work.

Preferred qualifications

  • Experience designing for eCommerce platforms and/or SaaS applications

Additional Details

eBay is an equal opportunity employer. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, national origin, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, veteran status, and disability, or other legally protected status. If you have a need that requires accommodation, please contact us at talent@ebay.com. We will make every effort to respond to your request for accommodation as soon as possible.