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Barcelona, Catalunya, España
Hybrid
Available
Wallapop is a Barcelona based scale-up driven by the purpose to empower people to embrace a more conscious and human way of consumption. We believe in a world where collaborative economy is mainstream. This is what drives us. 💫
Wallapop operates in Spain, Italy and Portugal, offering a catalogue of several hundreds of millions of products and services. Powered by technical innovation and continuous improvement, we bring together the scale & trust of classifieds with the marketplace’s convenience & reach. 🌱 Our mission is to enable a connected trade ecosystem, making 2nd-hand the norm through smart use of technology.
The Challenge 🧩
Identify, frame, and shape a design roadmap aimed at enhancing our user experience and driving key business metrics. In this role, you will operate with a high degree of autonomy — you are not waiting for a roadmap to execute or a solution to be handed to you. You will bring a strong design and user perspective to product strategy: understand where the PM is headed, what the data shows, and what users need — then align, challenge, and shape the direction so that design thinking influences how problems are framed, not just how they're solved.
As a Senior Product Designer, you will play a pivotal role in shaping Wallapop's discovery journey — creating engaging, intuitive, and scalable user experiences. Your work will directly enhance how millions of users discover and connect with unique items. This role blends strategic vision with hands-on design execution: you will help define design strategies and frameworks while building seamless, multi-feature end-to-end flows with an elevated UI. By partnering with cross-functional teams, you will move Wallapop's product vision forward and ensure every initiative delivers measurable value for both our community and the business.
What You Will Do 👇
Strategic partnership: Bring a strong point of view to product strategy. Challenge assumptions, ensure user and design thinking shapes how problems are framed, and actively seek input from analytics, data science, research, engineering, and content strategy to inform the direction. Contribute meaningfully to roadmap decisions and prioritization.
Problem framing: Navigate ambiguity from the start. You'll often begin with an ill-defined problem space, scope and frame it, identify the right opportunity, and build a clear path forward before a solution even exists.
Complex, multi-feature design: Lead end-to-end experiences spanning multiple features, and touchpoints. You’ll work with interconnected systems where a change in one area ripples across others, not isolated flows or single-feature work.
End-to-end execution: Own the design process from early discovery through to high-fidelity UI and technical specs. Testing, iterating, and building stakeholder alignment along the way to ensure proposals are feasible, desirable, and ready to ship.
Evidence-based design: Translate quantitative data and qualitative insights into elegant, actionable design solutions that solve real human problems and drive measurable impact.
Elevated craft: Champion visual excellence and push the boundaries of our current UI, delivering intentional, delightful experiences that raise the bar across the product.
Consistency & scale: Contribute to our global design system, ensuring a seamless and accessible experience across all platforms.
Mentorship & culture: Act as a thought partner for fellow designers, fostering a culture of mutual growth, confidence, and design excellence.
What We’re Looking For 🔎
Seniority: We are looking for a very senior profile , someone who has already operated at this level, not someone growing into it. Ideally with 8–10 years of product design experience, with 5+ years operating at a senior or lead level. Setting direction, working independently, and influencing product decisions beyond the design brief.
Product experience: Deep experience designing mobile-first digital products at scale, such as marketplaces, e-commerce, or similarly complex consumer applications.
Strategic thinking: A natural ability to bring a design and user perspective into product strategy, not just executing a vision, but helping shape one. Comfortable pushing back on assumptions and advocating for the right problem to solve.
Complexity & systems thinking: Proven experience leading multi-feature, end-to-end experiences with systemic complexity that involve dependencies, and require thinking across the full user journey.
Problem framing: Comfortable starting from ambiguity, scoping ill-defined problems, forming hypotheses, and iterating toward clarity before jumping to solutions.
Visual craft: A high bar for execution and a natural ability to deliver intentional UI that balances aesthetic beauty with functional clarity, even within strict system constraints.
Design tooling: High proficiency in Figma and modern prototyping workflows, with an interest in staying current with industry best practices.
Collaboration & communication: Able to articulate the why behind design decisions and build alignment across functions by partnering with analytics, data science, research, engineering, and content strategy to pressure-test direction and drive decisions forward with confidence.
What Would Be A Plus 🚀
Do note that all our jobs are 📍 Barcelona based. We follow a hybrid model where flexibility rules. We commit to a minimum of 6 days per month in the office. Each team self-organizes to decide on cadence and in-person/remote rituals.
Wallapop is an equal opportunity employer. We celebrate diversity and are committed to creating an inclusive environment for all employees as we want Wallapop to be a place for everyone.
Additionally to the opportunity to contribute to an agile product set up and work together towards achieving our meaningful mission, we offer the following 🍭 Perks & Benefits:
What does the hiring process for this position look like? 👀**Please, note that all interviews take place remotely over hangouts.**
Intro Call - run by talent acquisition, focus on providing more information about the role and the company as well as going over your experience, motivation, and expectations. This usually takes 45-60 minutes.
Case Study Submission- you will be assigned a task to submit within 5 up to 7 days where you will be able to showcase your expertise / technical skills required for the role.
Expertise Interview- Live Exercise - run by the hiring team, focus on the required core skills and the ability to deliver in a given context. This usually takes 90 minutes.
Stakeholder Interview - run by relevant stakeholders reflecting the reality of the context of the role, focus on the ability to collaborate & deliver in a cross-functional set-up. This usually takes 60 minutes.
Culture Interview - run by culture interviewers, focus on adherence to Wallapop's purpose and business proposition. This usually takes 60 minutes.
Offer - should you be the right candidate, your offer will be discussed over a call with talent acquisition and will then be confirmed in writing.
