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Design Manager, Music Vertical job at Spotify

We’re looking for a Design Manager to develop new features and experiences for artists, managers, labels, and their teams. You’ll craft a strategy rooted firmly in user insights that paint an exciting vision of the future, and deliver on that vision through effective planning, interaction design, visuals, and prototypes.

We are looking for a Design Manager to join the Music Vertical Platform team in the Music Mission. To power the growing scale, complexity, and business needs of Spotify’s Music Mission, the Music Vertical Platform tribe builds the core capabilities & platforms that enable creators and their teams to build an audience, monetize fans, and live off their work. You will help us increase our impact on the music industry by ensuring we are delivering a trustworthy product to our users and partners, developing a consistent and coherent core user experience in our products, and enabling our internal teams to quickly iterate and innovate. You will also support a team focused on shaping the ways we communicate with our customers throughout their journey–both in and outside of the Spotify for Artists experience. This team will build platforms and tools to empower product and marketing to reach artists and their teams, connecting them to the powerful industry-facing tools our mission provides to help drive their careers on Spotify.

What you'll do:

Work closely with a cross-functional team to conceptualize and build tools, features, and insights for our external products and music partners.
Identify design needs in the Music Mission space and build out the design strategy for the newly formed function.
Directly lead the current design team of 3 designers, currently in the Experience product area.
Growing the design team with additional designers, making the team available to cope with immediate needs in the new areas but also to give enough bandwidth to support unexplored areas.
Guide the design team through their work while also keeping an eye on the bigger picture and driving the overall vision.
Identify and grow talent within the design team, setting them up for success through mentorship and coaching.
Work closely with leaders in the Music Vertical Platform and communicate across leaders throughout the platform space.
Be the link between the Experience product area team and the wider Spotify design community.
You are willing to get hands-on, partnering closely with other designers and/or engineering teams.
Design thinking evangelist within the Experience product area.
Actively participates in key initiatives to help shape and guide solutions.

Who you are:

You have 5-7+ years of experience leading design teams through building platforms and products, collaborating closely with product and tech leadership.
You have extensive and shown experience as an IC in various forms.
You have experience building a design function from scratch to a mature well-known function.
You’re adaptable working in spaces with some ambiguity and defer to data-driven execution and testing.
Passionate about design and what it can do for the music, content, and technology industries.
You’re an excellent communicator. You have the communication skills to help you work cross-functionally with internal partners and external partners alike. You prosper when developing outstanding people and phenomenal products.
You have a broad product design background and are well-versed in data-informed product design and development.
You want to make an impact and tackle big sophisticated issues.
A true creative who is user-focused, collaborative, open, hardworking, and energetic. We believe our culture is a core part of what makes Spotify successful. We’re looking for someone who understands our culture, will thrive within it, and will help shape it as it evolves.
You have an online portfolio or PDF that you can share with us. A link to your online portfolio, or a PDF, is required. Applications without a portfolio are unlikely to be considered.
You are able to provide a brief explanation in your application of why you are excellent for this role while highlighting your portfolio.

Where you'll be:

We are a distributed workforce enabling our band members to find a work mode best for them!
Where in the world? For this role, it can be anywhere within the Americas in which we have a work location.
Prefer an office to work from instead? Not a problem! We have plenty of options for your working preferences. Find more information about our Work From Anywhere options here.
Working hours? We operate within the Eastern Standard time zone for collaboration.

Spotify is an equal opportunity employer. You are welcome at Spotify for who you are, no matter where you come from, what you look like, or what’s playing in your headphones. Our platform is for everyone, and so is our workplace. The more voices we have represented and amplified in our business, the more we will all thrive, contribute, and be forward-thinking! So bring us your personal experience, your perspectives, and your background. It’s in our differences that we will find the power to keep revolutionizing the way the world listens.

Spotify transformed music listening forever when we launched in 2008. Our mission is to unlock the potential of human creativity by giving a million creative artists the opportunity to live off their art and billions of fans the chance to enjoy and be passionate about these creators. Everything we do is driven by our love for music and podcasting. Today, we are the world’s most popular audio streaming subscription service with a community of more than 381 million users.

Global COVID and Vaccination Disclosure

Spotify is committed to safety and well-being of our employees, vendors and clients. We are following regional guidelines mandating vaccination and testing requirements, including those requiring vaccinations and testing for in-person roles and event attendance. For the US, we have mandated that all employees and contractors be fully vaccinated in order to work in our offices and externally with any third-parties. For all other locations, we strongly encourage our employees to get vaccinated and also follow local COVID and safety protocols.

This role is not eligible for hire in Colorado, USA.

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