Engineering Manager, Pricing Buyer

Company Description

Depop is a peer-to-peer circular fashion marketplace where anyone can buy sell and discover secondhand fashion. Our mission is simple: to make fashion circular by making secondhand as exciting and rewarding as buying new.

Founded in 2011 Depops diverse community has helped move resale into the mainstream where buying secondhand is no longer an alternative but how people of different ages now engage with fashion. Today more than 56 million registered users come to Depop to find great value express their own personal style and give clothes a longer life. We believe that everything you want already exists and our role is to help people discover it.

Powered by a team of over 500 people our company is headquartered in London with offices in New 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. For more information visit

We aim to create an inclusive environment where everyone is welcome no matter who they are or where theyre from. Just as our platform connects people globally we believe our workplace should reflect the diversity of the communities we serve. We thrive on the power of different perspectives and experiences knowing they drive innovation and bring us closer to our users.

Were proud to be an equal opportunity employer providing employment opportunities without regard to age ethnicity religion or belief gender identity sex sexual orientation disability pregnancy or maternity marriage and civil partnership or any other protected status. Were continuously evolving our recruitment processes to ensure fairness and are open to accommodating any needs you might have.

AI Disclosure: We use AI tools (Google Gemini) to help our team source and review applications for roles with a high volume of applications. These tools assist our recruiters in identifying great talent but do not replace human decision-making. At Depop every hiring decision is made by a human.

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Engineering Manager Pricing - Buyer Value

The role

Were looking for a UK-based Engineering Manager to lead our new Pricing - Buyer Value squad part of our wider Pricing initiative within the Supply pillar. This is a brand-new team working closely alongside an established Pricing team already in place.

Pricing shapes the success of sellers on Depop and this teams work will have a real visible impact on the experience millions of people have on our marketplace. Youll focus on the buyer side of the price experience: offers deals and helping buyers feel confident theyre getting great value on secondhand fashion.

Youll partner closely with a Product Manager and Product Designer collaborate with ML and manage a cross-functional team of iOS and backend engineers. Youll be accountable for the squads delivery health and effectiveness. We work with an experimentation culture and a data-driven approach and youll help the team learn and iterate quickly through measurement.

This role suits an Engineering Manager whos excited to build a team from the early days cares deeply about delivery and team effectiveness and wants to do it in a high-performance high-compassion environment.

Responsibilities

• Deliver value and drive results. Be accountable for the squads day-to-day delivery ensuring work is well-scoped sequenced and shipped with a strong quality bar. Drive a delivery cadence that balances impact speed and long-term maintainability and that aligns clearly with business and product goals and metrics.
• Collaborate across functions. Partner closely with Product Design Product Analytics ML and the wider Pricing initiative to align on priorities define what matters and keep work moving across differing perspectives. Communicate progress risks and outcomes clearly to stakeholders and leadership.
• Help establish a new team. Partner with Product and Engineering leadership to plan against a roadmap establish strong ways of working and surface risks dependencies and trade-offs early.
• Lead and support your engineers. Line manage a cross-functional team of iOS and backend engineers (typically 4 to 6) creating an environment where people can do their best work. While youre encouraged to stay close to the technical detail your primary focus is enabling the team to perform and deliver at their best.
• Foster growth and feedback. Be accountable for your engineers performance and career growth providing regular feedback coaching and clear expectations through 1:1s and continuous support.
• Build an inclusive culture. Foster a respectful inclusive team culture that supports learning continuous improvement and a sustainable pace and that holds a high bar for performance and impact.

Qualifications

Youll be a strong fit if you:

• Have experience as an Engineering Manager growing high-performing engineers teams and processes and are excited by the chance to build a new team.
• Care deeply about delivery and team effectiveness and get satisfaction from helping teams ship high-quality work that drives measurable business impact.
• Have a solid engineering background and can work across the full stack leaning on your technical judgement to provide the connective tissue between backend and frontend and uphold high engineering standards.
• Make strong decisions based on the data available in the face of ambiguous or shifting priorities with a preference for simplicity and a bias towards delivery.
• Build strong relationships across Product Design ML and other stakeholders and can navigate differing goals to reach results that work for everyone.
• Lead with empathy and clarity giving feedback coaching and support while maintaining a high bar for performance.
• Have a healthy curious approach to AI: comfortable introducing AI tools into the teams day-to-day and able to lead the team in adopting them safely and well rather than shying away from them.
• Align with our Depop values: showing up for the community having each others backs acting with purpose and thinking thrift with sustainability and cost in mind.

Bonus points if you:

• Are familiar with any of Swift (iOS) Scala or TypeScript.
• Have worked on commercially sensitive parts of a marketplace or e-commerce product.
• Are comfortable with experimentation and impact validation such as A/B testing.
• Are familiar with observability tracking and data pipeline tools and methodologies.
• Have previously worked in an app-first business.

Additional Information

Health Mental Wellbeing

• PMI and cash plan healthcare access with Bupa
• Subsidised counselling and coaching with Self Space
• Cycle to Work scheme with options from Evans or the Green Commute Initiative
• Employee Assistance Programme (EAP) for 24/7 confidential support
• Mental Health First Aiders across the business for support and signposting

Work/Life Balance:

• 25 days of annual leave with the option to carry over up to 5 days
• Impact hours: Up to 2 days of additional paid leave per year for volunteering
• Fully paid 4-week sabbatical after completion of 5 years of consecutive service with Depop to give you a chance to recharge or do something you love.
• Flexible Working: MyMode hybrid-working model with Flex Office-Based and Remote options *role-dependent
• All offices are dog-friendly
  

Family Life:

• For birth parent: 20 weeks of paid parental leave for full-time regular employees
• For non-birth parents: 12 weeks of paid parental leave for full-time regular employees
• IVF leave shared parental leave and paid emergency parent/carer leave

Learn Grow:

• Twice-yearly development chats and yearly performance reviews
• Learning budget
• Upskilling our employees with company-wide training workshops materials and resources

Your Future:

• Life Insurance (financial compensation of 3x your salary)
• Pension matching up to 6% of full base salary with Aviva

Depop Extras:

• In-office Depop Shop (thats free!) and a packing station with free delivery.
• Special milestones are celebrated with gifts and rewards!

Required Experience:

Manager

Employment Type : Full-Time
Experience: years
Vacancy: 1