Depop is the community-powered fashion marketplace to buy and sell unique fashion, with over 30 million registered users in more than 150 countries. Depop is a place for anyone to discover and celebrate their style on their own terms, and to feel good about their fashion choices by extending the lives of millions of garments.

The company was founded in 2011 and is headquartered in London with offices in Manchester and New York. Depop has approximately 400 employees dedicated to its mission of building the world’s most diverse progressive home of fashion, that’s kinder on the planet and kinder to people. In 2021, Depop became a wholly-owned subsidiary of Etsy - the global marketplace for unique and creative goods - and continues to operate as a standalone company.

Depop is an equal opportunity employer. Our mission is to build the world’s most diverse progressive home of fashion. To do this, we encourage people from underrepresented communities to apply. We celebrate diversity and are committed to creating an inclusive environment for all employees. We’re continuing to build recruitment processes that are fair and welcome requests for reasonable adjustments required throughout your interview experience with us. Depop supports visa sponsorship, sponsorship opportunities may be limited to certain roles and skillsets.

We are looking for an experienced Senior Designer with both Graphic and Motion design experience, who is deeply embedded in creative design within youth and fashion culture. Reporting to the Head of Creative (Art Direction and Design), the Senior Designer is a key role in driving Depop's brand identity and visual design through our brand channels and more widely through the business. You'll work closely with the creative team to make outstanding design work that positions Depop as the most diverse, progressive home of fashion.

Responsibilities

• Drive design direction, innovative creative ideation and execution for Depop brand, marketing, social and partnership campaigns, activations and content.
• Build and refine the Depop graphic systems and guidelines, and continually manage and evolve the Depop brand identity: ensuring this is central and consistent across all creative projects and platforms.
• Working on a variable scale of projects with hands on design ability to produce attractive and effective designs across multiple platforms, from print and digital to social and animated design for social and campaigns
• Define and develop motion graphic creative and across Depop’s digital marketing channels
• Bring strong relationships with external creative agencies and partners, internal/external teams while managing multiple work-streams with competing priorities
• Ability to structure/deliver outstanding creative presentations (internally or externally)
• Work closely with creative counterparts and key stakeholders to concept and execute original ideas and stories while demonstrating your understanding of the Depop brand.

Requirements

• Extensive experience minimum in a fashion and youth culture brand or agency environment
• An outstanding digital portfolio demonstrating your graphic and motion design abilities
• Excellent typography skills, creative mind and a sharp eye; layout and art direction
• A strong understanding of creating motion graphics, and animated typography that excites and inspires our creative community.
• Demonstrable experience in delivering a broad range of design projects including brand campaigns, activations, moving image, design systems, events, digital, motion graphics, print, and social campaigns across different devices, screens and platforms (Snap, Meta, Pinterest etc.)
• An ability to storytell and create engaging content for a Gen Z audience
• Strong understanding of assessing the content landscape for a brand
• Strong communication skills and a highly developed design vocabulary
• Good organisational skills that support the rest of the team

About you:

• Calm under pressure, resourceful and a creative problem solver, used to working to deadlines on their own initiative
• Entrepreneurial spirit, growth mindset, and collaborative nature is a must
• Excellent communication skills
• Passion for fashion and youth culture
• A team player that is happy to work on small and large projects, internal or external

Software
This role requires you to have expert working knowledge in the following;

• InDesign
• Illustrator
• Photoshop
• After Effects
• Figma
• Sketch
• Premiere Pro

UK Benefits
Health + Mental Wellbeing

• 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

Work/Life Balance

• 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
• 2 activism days per year for you to use for volunteering, demonstrations or internal initiatives
• We offer sabbaticals for our long-serving employees.

Flexible Working

We’re Flexa® accredited, meaning we offer genuinely flexible working.
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.

All of our offices are also dog-friendly! Do your best work with your best friend.
You can also apply to work abroad for 4 weeks of the year (in UK tax treaty countries).

Family Life

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.

Learn and Grow

• 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.

Your Future

• Life Insurance (financial compensation of 3x your salary)
• Pension (Depop will match your contribution up to 6% of your qualifying earnings)

And finally, as a valued Depop employee we waive all of our employees’ fees when they sell on Depop so you can ship your sold items anywhere in the UK for free.