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Welcome to VOP's Product Hiring Session - Our Mission, Structure and Hiring Process

Welcome to VOP's hiring session. We trust you will find valuable insights into who we are, what we do, and how we organize our product team. Additionally, we will share our hiring process and current job vacancies.

A Glimpse into VOP: Our Story and Values

VOP is a leading commerce player in Spain, renowned for promoting a conscious and human way of consumption. As an exciting platform that successfully combines e-commerce and sustainability, we offer second-hand items at competitive prices. We are currently expanding into other countries, increasing our international presence and brand awareness.

Why our App Success?

Our app, simple and user-friendly, offers a unique search and discovery experience. With approximately 16 million monthly active users, a whopping 92% are mobile users illustrating our impressive mobile adoption number. We prioritize user safety, and we strive to continuously improve their experience.

Embedding our Values in our Work

We are strong believers in unity, opportunity, and accessibility. Our team commits to our mission and works towards the same goal. We advocate innovation and simplicity, always aiming to learn and grow from our successes and mistakes.

Meet the Product Team at VOP

The product team, responsible for developing the world's best unique goods trading platform, is split into three distinct functions: Product Management, Analytics, and Product Design and Research. The product managers liaise with cross-functional teams to drive user experiences and business impact, while our formidable analytics team generates valuable insights and data-driven decisions. Finally, our design and research team ensures the experiences are coherent, distinctive, and exceptional.

How Our Product Team Functions

We organise our product team into tribes and topic teams, designed to support our user's journeys and continuously improve their experience. Each tribe specializes in various domains, from ensuring safe user transactions, sustaining our product on an engineering level, partnering with entrepreneurs to benefit small and medium-sized businesses, and overseeing our search experience, among others.

An Overview of VOP's Product Hiring Process

The hiring process at VOP operates in several stages. It kicks off with an initial call to assess candidates' experience, motivation, and aspirations. Those who pass this stage move onto a technical task or case study based on the specific role. From there, candidates proceed to the expertise interview stage, followed by a competency interview and leadership assessment phase. Candidates who pass all stages receive a job offer.

Current Job Vacancies at VOP

  • Product Manager
  • Product Designer
  • Product Design Manager
  • Quantitative Researcher
  • Research Operative
  • Data Analyst
  • Data Scientist

We eagerly welcome talented individuals to join our exciting and rapidly expanding team. As we aspire towards our mission, together we can help change the world.

Got any Questions?

We highly encourage participants to ask any questions that come up. Your questions may be about the hiring process, a particular role, the product structure, or VOP's culture and values. Please feel free to write your questions in the chat or raise them verbally.

VOP Events Not Here to Miss!

Besides today's session, we have other events lined up for you. Stay tuned for talks from Jerry, our colleague, about Engineering at VOP; Julia, our Head of Product, and Laura, our VP of Product Design.



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