Principal Designer - Mercari

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Japan
Senior level
AdTech • Marketing Tech
The Role
As a Principal Designer at Mercari, you will create user-centric designs for the Mercari app, focusing on enhancing communication and UX to drive growth and profitability. Your role includes reporting to the CXO and leading UX strategies for various Mercari businesses, leveraging your design expertise to improve user experience and contribute to the company's success.
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JD in Japanese follows. 英文の後に和文JDをご覧いただけます。


Introduction
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 Group’s mission, see .

Equal Opportunity Hiring

Here at Mercari, we work to realize a world in which no one’s 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 .


Team’s Mission / Work Responsibilities

The mission of Mercari’s design organization:

  • Mercari Group’s strategy is to circulate value, as is shown in the image below. Our mission is to embody this circulation in our products and design all the components necessary for our users to obtain the things they want and achieve their dreams.

Expected roles:

  • Ever since Mercari’s founding, we have innovated as a product company taking into account not only our users, but also growth and profitability, in all of our roles.
  • As a result, we have grown into an enormous platform with a number of Mercari accounts equivalent to approximately half of Japan’s population (48 million people) and 23 million monthly active users.
  • In the process, we have worked to maximize opportunities for our users to enjoy Mercari, by offering a credit card tailored to making purchases on our marketplace, bitcoin features enabling users to transform their sales balance into a new type of value, and recently, the Mercari Hallo service, which supplies easy-to-find work locations for anyone who has verified their identity on our platform.
  • Unlike other companies that work to create their own ecosystems, Mercari aspires to captivate users with engaging products to achieve disruptive growth. As a designer for the Mercari app, you will use your polished design techniques with an eye to all of Mercari’s businesses to thoroughly carry out communication with our users, while taking responsibility for the UX that you create leading to growth and profitability for the company.

Assignment:

  • Upon joining Mercari, you will be assigned to a specialist team reporting directly to Mercari’s CXO as a Principal Designer.

Career development:

  • After demonstrating business results within the specialist team under our CXO, you will be in charge of UX decisions for one of Mercari’s businesses in place of the CXO.
  • Once you have expanded your scope of responsibility, you will be able to further develop your career on one of two avenues, to take over the position of CXO for Mercari’s Japan businesses or continue to contribute to Mercari as a Principal Designer.

Specific work responsibilities include the following: 

  • You will be asked to plan, evaluate, and find solutions for business strategies and product direction from the perspectives of design consideration and user experience. For example, you will design and lead the process of identifying customer insights from ethnographic research and transforming them into ideas for businesses and services.
  • In particular, you will be asked to communicate with leadership who have an overall view of Mercari’s Japan businesses (marketplace, payment, credit, cryptoassets, on-demand work, and other new businesses) and rapidly drive the creation of a five-element UX model.
  • You will also be a role model and help develop future talent as a leading figure in the company.

(Learn more about Mercari’s mission and values .)


Unique and Bold Challenges

  • Experience cross-use initiatives involving many different markets
    • Since our founding, we have stuck to a “one UX” approach for the Mercari app—we ensure that the marketplace, fintech, and on-demand work markets are all part of the same customer journey, and aim for growth using cross-use strategies. Most companies that expand into multiple businesses have different styles for promoting each of their businesses, but since Mercari has one unified customer journey, we recommend that talented designers who understand all of the business areas take charge of designing the entire app.
    • You will be able to gain experience similar to that of creating a community, covering many different markets at once.
  • Experience product design at all phases of product development
    • This position is full of opportunities for you to test your design skills in different phases since Mercari is constantly entering new markets. We often have products in the launch phase (going from 0 to 1), the product-market fit phase (going from 10 to 100), and the innovation breakthrough phase (aiming to go from 100 to 1,000), all at the same time.
  • Drive projects in all areas from strategy to delivery through design
    • At Mercari, we actively assign experienced designers to take charge of businesses and demonstrate their leadership, while also enabling them to deliver products they are satisfied with. This means that one designer is in charge of the entire process, from understanding business challenges and management strategies, communicating with leadership on a weekly basis, and creating the user experience to working together with PMs and engineers to ensure a proper product-market fit.


Required Qualifications

  • Shared belief in the mission and values of Mercari Group and its various companies
  • At least 10 years of experience designing UI and UX for apps or websites 
  • Leadership skills and ability to drive projects in collaboration with team members 
  • Experience using development tools such as Figma and InVision
  • Frequent use of Mercari’s services for buying and selling items


Preferred Qualifications

  • Experience working on design in the system development phase of an app
  • Experience in people management or enthusiasm for creating a design organization
  • Experience working in an English-language environment 


Screening Criteria

  • Demonstrates leadership and is able to drive projects in collaboration with team members
  • Constantly seeks ways to improve their skills and learn new things in earnest
  • Works on tasks in a timely manner and in close collaboration with those around them
  • Takes ownership over their work, and proactively moves projects forward
  • Has the ability to adapt to a changing environment
  • Can talk on equal footing with the business side and the engineering side 

 (See for more details.)


Key Points for Technical Assignments

  • You will be asked to undergo a UI design assessment.


Language Requirements

  • Japanese: Proficient (CEFR - C1) required
  • English: Independent (CEFR - B2) required

See for more information about CEFR.


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Working Conditions
Employment Status

Full-time

  • Probationary period: First 3 months after joining the company. (During this period your contract conditions will be the same as that of a permanent employee.)


Office

Roppongi

  • Smoking is prohibited within our offices
  • Mercari has introduced a work style policy called “.” Each member is free to choose whether they want to work in the office or work fully remote. *Exceptions made for certain kinds of work.


Work Hours

  • Full flextime (no “core time” or “flex time”)
    *Does not apply to all positions


Holidays

  • Two days off per week (as well as national holidays, New Year's break, etc.)
  • Paid leave, congratulatory and bereavement leave, relax days, sick leave


Salary

  • Annual salary paid in 12 monthly installments (including fixed overtime allowance)
  • Based on skills, experience, and abilities
  • Reviewed twice a year


Benefits

  • Complete health and social insurance
  • Incentive program
  • Support systems, including those that benefit the employee’s family members
    .


Support

  • Relocation support
  • Language learning support
  • Translation/interpretation support
    .


Media
Corporate Sites

  • [Japanese]


Owned Media


はじめに

あらゆる価値を循環させ、あらゆる人の可能性を広げる

「地球資源が限られているなか、より豊かな社会をつくるために何ができるか」。2013年、創業者の山田進太郎が世界一周の旅で抱いた課題意識から、フリマアプリ「メルカリ」は生まれました。私たちは、物理的なモノやお金に限らずあらゆる価値を循環させることで、誰もがやりたいことを実現し、人や社会に貢献するための選択肢を増やすことができると信じています。

テクノロジーの力で世界中の人々をつなぎ、あらゆる人の可能性が発揮される世界を実現していきます。メルカリグループの目指すべき方針についてはMercari Culture Docをご覧ください。

選考における機会の平等

メルカリでは、バックグラウンドによって個人の可能性が決めつけられることなく、自由に価値を生みだす機会を手にできる社会の実現を目指しています。そしてメルカリがミッションを実現するために「Inclusion & Diversity」という考え方は不可欠な存在だと考えています。

採用活動においても、メルカリのミッション・バリューに共感する、様々なバックグラウンドの方にジョインしていただけるよう、年齢、性別、性的指向、人種、宗教、身体能力、その他記号に基づくあらゆる差別をなくすことを約束します。

詳しくはをご覧ください。


チームのミッション/ 業務内容

メルカリデザイン組織のミッション

  • メルカリグループの戦略である、価値の循環の図を、プロダクトに可視化し、お客さまの欲しいもの・やりたいことの実現を果たすために必要なことすべてを設計していくことがミッションです

求められる役割

  • メルカリは創業以来、プロダクトの会社としてどのような役割においてもお客さま視点のみならずGrowthと収益もとらえたモノづくりをしてきました。
  • その結果、日本人口の約2人に1人(4,800万人)がメルカリアカウントを持ち、月間利用者数は2,300万人という巨大なプラットフォームへ成長しました。
  • その過程ではフリマの購入に最適なクレジットカードの提供や、売上金を新たな価値に変えられるビットコインの提供、そして最近では本人確認済みの人であればすぐにマッチングできるHalloの働く場所の提供など、お客さまのメルカリを楽しむ可能性を最大化してきました。
  • 経済圏を作る他社とは異なり、あくまでも”プロダクトの力”でお客さまを魅了し非連続な成長を野心的にもつメルカリアプリのDesignerには事業横断した視点と、磨き上げられたDesign技術によって、「自分が生み出したUXがGrowthも収益も生み出している」という結果責任を持ち、徹底的な顧客との対話が日々の役割になります。

配属

  • 入社後はプリンシパルデザイナーとしてCXO直下のスペシャリスト専門チームに配属となります。

キャリア形成

  • CXO直下のスペシャリストチーム内で事業成果を上げられた後は、CXOの代理として1つの事業のUX判断をお任せしていきます
  • その責任範囲を拡大していった後、日本事業のCXOのポジションを得るまたは、プリンシパルデザイナーとして引き続き貢献いただくかの2つの道が用意されます

具体的な業務内容は下記のとおりです。 

  • デザイン思考やユーザーエクスペリエンスの観点から戦略やプロダクトの方向性を設計し、評価し、解決策を見つける。例えば、エスノグラフィックリサーチ等からカスタマーインサイトを洞察し、ビジネスやサービスの種を引き出す一連のプロセスを設計しつつ、自らリードしていただきます。
  • 特に日本事業全体(フリマ・決済・与信・暗号資産・スキマバイト + あまたある新規事業)の視点を持った経営陣と対話しながら迅速にUXの5段階モデルを組み立てていく推進が求められます
  • 社内での第一人者として、自らモデルとなり後続育成等にも参加していただきます。

※メルカリのミッション・バリューについての詳細はをご覧ください。


ユニークなチャレンジ

  • あらゆる市場をとらえたクロスユース施策を経験できる
    • メルカリアプリは創業当初からOne UXを貫いており、フリマ、Fintech、HR市場を1つのカスタマージャーニーにつなげ、クロスユース戦略でGrowthを考えています。通常このような事業展開をする企業では各事業部に分かれた推進スタイルを持ちますが、お客さまのカスタマージャーニーは1つであるため、メルカリでは全領域を理解したDesign人材がアプリの全体設計を行うことを推奨しています。
    • 一度にあらゆる市場を捉えた社会作りのような経験を積むことができます。
  • あらゆるプロダクトのフェーズのモノづくりを経験できる
    • あらゆる市場に常に参入し続けるメルカリでは、0-1の新規立ち上げフェーズ、10-100のProduct Market Fitのフェーズ、そして100-1000を狙うイノベーションのジレンマを打ち破るフェーズが同時多発的に生じるため、培ったご自身のDesign力を試すオポチュニティに溢れています
  • 戦略からデリバリーに至るまでのすべての領域でデザインで推進できる
    • メルカリは経験のあるデザイナーに積極的に事業推進者としてリーダーシップを発揮いただきつつ、ご自身が納得行くプロダクトをデリバリーできるアサイン環境を整えています。そのため、事業課題や経営戦略を理解と経営陣と週次で対話しながらお客さま体験を作り出し、PMやエンジニアと共にProduct Market Fitさせる一連の流れをすべてを1名のDesignerに託します


必須条件

  • メルカリグループおよび各カンパニーのミッションとバリューに共感していただける方
  • アプリもしくは、WebのUI/UXデザインの実務経験10年以上 
  • リーダーシップを発揮し、チームとともにプロジェクトをリードする能力 
  • FigmaやInVisionなど、開発に必要なツールを用いた実務経験
  • 日頃からメルカリで売買を楽しんでいる方


歓迎条件

  • アプリのシステム開発におけるデザイン経験
  • ピープルマネジメント経験または、デザイン組織づくりに意欲的な方 
  • 英語での業務経験


選考のポイント

  • リーダーシップを発揮し、チームとともにプロジェクトをリードする能力
  • 真摯に学ぶ姿勢を持ち、常にスキルアップしていける方
  • 周りと密に連携を取りながら、スピーディに業務を行える方
  • オーナーシップを持ち、自ら進んで業務に臨める方
  • 変化に対する柔軟性をお持ちの方
  • ビジネス・エンジニアリング双方とフラットに議論できる方 

 ※詳しくはのページをご覧ください。


技術課題のポイント

  • UIデザインの課題あり


語学力

  • 日本語:Proficient (CEFR - C1) 必須
  • 英語:Independent (CEFR - B2) 必須

※CEFRの詳細については、をご覧ください


関連記事


雇用条件
雇用形態

正社員

  • 試用期間:入社後3ヶ月(本採用と同条件) 



オフィス

六本木

  • 受動喫煙対策: 屋内全面禁煙
  • メルカリには「」というワークスタイルに関する制度があります。オフィス出社をすることも、フルリモートワークを選択することも自由に選択することができます。※一部職種を除く



勤務時間

  • フレックスタイム制(コアタイムなし・フレキシブルタイムなし)
    ※一部職種を除くため、ご応募の際にお問合せください。



休日・休暇

  • 完全週休2日制(祝祭日、年末年始 等)
  • 有給休暇、慶弔休暇、リラックス休暇、Sick Leave


給与

  • 月給制(固定残業代含む)
  • スキル・経験・能力に応じて決定いたします
  • 毎年2回見直し 



ベネフィット 

  • 各種社会保険完備
  • インセンティブ制度
  • 社員の家族を含めた支援制度
    ※ 詳しくはのページをご覧ください。



サポート

  • リロケーションサポート
  • 言語学習のサポート
  • 翻訳と通訳のサポート

  ※ 詳しくはのページをご覧ください。



メディア
コーポレートサイト


オウンドメディア

Top Skills

User Interface Design
Ux Design
The Company
HQ: Minatoku, Tokyo
1,593 Employees
On-site Workplace
Year Founded: 2013

What We Do

Mercari is a C2C marketplace app allowing anyone with a smartphone to easily sell items they no longer need, providing a new and unique user experience.

In the past, buying and selling secondhand items has commonly been done at physical shops. However, this came with issues: the travel time required to go to these shops, the limited selection of items these shops carry, the unclear prices for both the buyer and seller alike due to the involvement of dealers, and more.

Online auction websites for buying and selling secondhand items came with their own problems, including difficult listing procedures and long bidding times. On Mercari, anyone can use their smartphone to easily buy and sell items. We also provide easy and inexpensive shipping options thanks to our partnerships with delivery companies and convenience stores. As our service is catered to individuals on both the buying and selling sides, anyone can experience the fun of easily selling unneeded items for money and the excitement of finding unique secondhand items to buy.

With the technological capabilities and extensive user and information bases built through Mercari, we launched the Merpay mobile payment service in 2019, the B2C marketplace Mercari Shops in October 2021, and the cryptoasset exchange service Mercoin in March 2023. We strive to continuously enhance the user experience and expand our businesses

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