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Design Manager - Mercari Marketplace
- Employment Status:ãFull-timeÂ
- Work Hours: Full Flextime (no core time)Â
- Office: Roppongi
For more details, see the Overview of Our Positions section on our Careers site.
About Mercari
Circulate all forms of value to unleash the potential in all people
"What can I do to help society thrive with the finite resources we have?" The Mercari marketplace app was born in 2013 out of this thought by our founder Shintaro Yamada as he traveled the world. We believe that by circulating all forms of value, not just physical things and money, we can create opportunities for anyone to realize their dreams and contribute to society and the people around them. Mercari aims to use technology to connect people all over the world and create a world where anyone can unleash their potential. For more information about Mercari Groupâs mission, see Mercariâs Culture Doc
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Organization/Team Mission
 In the Marketplace Design Team, we design intuitive, trustworthy experiences end to end for users in Japan. We partner closely with Product, Engineering, and Research to explore new problem spaces, define experience direction, and raise the bar for craft, consistency, and innovation across the marketplace.
As our scope continues to widen, the team is growing with it, and we are now at the stage of expanding the design organization itself.
As our scope continues to widen, we are expanding the design organization and shaping how it works.
See here for more information about our mission and values.
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Work Responsibilities
- Lead end-to-end design hands-on in key areas, while holding overall accountability for experience quality across your scope
- Define the experience direction and design quality bar across the Marketplace, and continuously improve them by building out patterns and critique processes with the design system team Â
- Decide what to prioritize among ambiguous business and user problems, and steer the team toward a clear experience strategy
- Shape team composition and designer assignments, and take responsibility for overall team performance and health
- Lead designer hiring and design the onboarding experience, and support each member's growth and career development through feedback and performance reviews
- Partner closely with Product Managers, Engineering Managers, and UX Researchers to shape product direction and influence the roadmap
- Identify problems and opportunities beyond your immediate scope, and proactively propose new ideas, concepts, and improvements
Unique Challenges
- Owning experience quality across buyer and seller journeys in a marketplace used by tens of millions and expanding globally.
- Deciding who takes on which unexplored product areas, and leading the team into high ambiguity with few precedents.
- Building the systems that let the team balance speed, experimentation, and innovation with a high bar for craft, trust, and usability.
- Shaping how a growing design organization works, from team composition and hiring to growth and process, while continuing to lead design yourself.
- Building a team that designs for the Japanese market with strong attention to cultural nuance, trust, and clarity.
- Raising the team's AI fluency from very different starting points, without lowering the bar for craft.
Qualifications
- Required Experience/Skills
- 2+ years of design management experience.
- Strong design skills across UX, interaction, and visual design, with a sharp eye for detail and craft.
- Experience leading design in complex or ambiguous problem spaces, and shaping product direction through concept development and storytelling.
- Deep understanding of design systems, scalable patterns, and maintaining consistency across large-scale products.
- Experience raising the quality of a team's output through feedback and mentorship.
- Preferred Experience/Skills
- 6+ years of professional experience in product design or UX design, owning end-to-end experiences.
- Design experience with marketplaces, e-commerce, or transactional products.
- Experience growing designers into high-impact roles aligned with their strengths and aspirations.
- Experience managing a design organization across multiple teams or product areas.
- A portfolio or website showing your past design work.
- Familiarity with user research methods and experience applying insights to design decisions.
- Professional experience in the Japanese market, or experience designing products for it.
- Comfort with experimentation, prototyping, and rapid iteration in high-uncertainty environments.
- Experience contributing to designer hiring, such as defining role requirements, designing interview processes, or employer branding.
- Uses AI tools in daily design work and has reshaped your own workflow around them, from exploration to prototyping.
- Experience using AI tools in daily design work and reshaping your own workflow around them, from exploration to prototyping.
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- Japanese: Proficient (CEFR B2) or above required
- English: Proficient (CEFR â C1)
For details about CEFR, see here.
Learn More About Mercari Group
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Recruiting at Mercari
At Mercari Group, we value empathizing with and embodying the mission and values ââof the Group and each company. To promote the creation of an organization that maximizes the total amount of value exhibited by all members, we would like to understand the experience and skills of each candidate as accurately as possible.
Recruiting cycle at Mercari Group
- Application screening
- Skill assessment: For engineering positions, you will be asked to complete a skill assessment on HackerRank or GitHub. For non-engineering positions, you may be asked to complete an assessment depending on the position. (The timing of the assessment may coincide with the interview process.)
- Interview: The number of interviews may vary depending on the position.
- Reference check: We will ask for online references around the timing of the final interview.
- Offer: Offers will be determined carefully in consideration of the final interview and the reference check.
ãLearn more about our recruiting process here.
Equal Opportunity Hiring
Here at Mercari, we work to realize a world in which no oneâs potential is limited by their background and everyone has the opportunity to freely create value. We also firmly believe that a mindset of Inclusion & Diversity is essential for us to achieve our mission.
This, of course, extends to our hiring practices as well. Mercari is committed to eliminating discrimination based on age, gender, sexual orientation, race, religion, physical disability, and other such factors so that anyone who shares our mission and values can join us, regardless of their background. For more details, please read our I&D statement.
Please read and acknowledge our Privacy Policy prior to submitting your application.
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