Company Description
Depop is the community-powered fashion marketplace to buy and sell circular 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.
The Role
We are looking for a Senior People Partner who combines great generalist HR knowledge with a strong passion for learning & development to help us continue to build an exceptional employee experience at Depop. As well as operating as a strategic partner to senior leaders, the successful candidate will shape and deliver key people projects in areas such as Talent and Succession Planning and Organisation design and development.
This person will;
Play a key role in our People Partnering team supporting employees and managers across the entire company.
Keep employee experience at the forefront of how they work and communicate.
Support managers and employees at Depop, providing sound advice on generalist People topics
Work closely with the People Partnering Team and wider People Team to lead and support on projects that will shape employee experience at Depop as we continue to scale.
Be part of our People Strategy evolution, leading and driving our people projects to help us reach our goals.
Responsibilities
Build effective relationships with senior leaders and their teams, acting as a trusted People Partner to identify and achieve shared objectives, coaching, advising, and supporting them with their people plans and talent needs
Shape and deliver people strategy projects, including performance management, talent identification and succession, learning and development, org design, and employee engagement.
Proactively identify opportunities for improvement and drive initiatives to enhance HR processes and ways of working.
Collaborate with cross-functional teams to support initiatives related to diversity, equity, and inclusion (DEI), employee engagement, and professional development.
Analyse people metrics and risks adding further insight into the overall health of our teams and sharing trends or determining opportunities for focus
Lead our engagement survey rollout into functional areas and drive action plans.
Champion our values (known as the Depop DNA) and culture, being a role model for these.
Use people data (e.g. engagement survey, DEI data, performance data, attrition metrics or qualitative data) to proactively identify opportunities and problems.
Requirements:
Teamwork, Communication and Collaboration: You cultivate effective collaboration with peers and stakeholders across different teams, influencing and contributing to productive group decisions.
Ownership and delivery: You take ownership of complex tasks and projects that impact the team's success. You demonstrate responsibility and accountability by driving ambiguous tasks to completion.
User-centric: You leverage an understanding of the link between user experience and company outcomes.
Data Driven: You’ll always start with data, facts and insights to help inform your approach to solving problems and analysing needs. You can use data to provide insights, inform decisions and visualise it to influence others through storytelling.
Problem-solving and agility: You’re able to think creatively and be flexible in your outlook.
Additional Information
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 option to carry over up to 5 days
● 1 company-wide day off per quarter
● Impact hours: Up to 2 days 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 dependant
● All offices are dog-friendly
● Ability to work abroad for 4 weeks per year in UK tax treaty countries
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.
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