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Product Design Manager - Soundtrap Freemium BU

Flexible work schedule
Home office stipend
Remote work options
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About Soundtrap

Soundtrap is an easy-to-use audio creation studio under the umbrella of Spotify. It’s cloud-based, offers real-time collaboration, and works on many kinds of devices. Great musicians and artists - established or not - shouldn't have to be tech-savvy on audio engineering, so we are making it possible for almost anyone to be able to focus on their creativity and not the complexity that comes with many recordings and editing tools today. 

About the team

We’re looking for a Design Manager to join Soundtrap within Spotify’s Music Mission. You will be responsible for managing, and growing, a team of designers focused on building and maintaining our Soundtrap Freemium offering. This position reports directly into our Head of Freemium Business Unit Lead and is also included in the overall Soundtrap Design Team led by the Soundtrap’s Design lead.

What you'll do:

  • You will be immersed into the Soundtrap product to understand and improve the user experience, from the big picture to the smallest of details within the Soundtrap Freemium Business Unit
  • Directly manage a team of designers and UX writers, supporting them as they drive their personal and professional growth
  • Together with the Business unit leads actively participating and contributing to the Unit’s needs to define, measure, and follow up on important metrics related to business outcomes
  • Proactively looking for and solving high-level issues and opportunities, including contributing to initiatives across units led by the Soundtrap Design lead/Practice lead
  • Working closely with product managers, engineers, developers, product insight experts, and business teams to ensure that design is implemented as intended
  • Working together with the Soundtrap design team to continuously improve and grow the design competence and culture
  • Contribute as a product designer in new and/or existing product teams when necessary.

Who you are:

  • You have experience in supporting and guiding projects of high complexity that involves teams of multiple disciplines
  • You have 5+ years of experience as a product designer/ senior product designer in an organization of distributed and autonomous teams - and are well informed about the role of a designer is such organizations
  • A strong commitment to objectives on how design can impact growth by using data and user insight to create business impact
  • You are willing to get hands-on, partnering closely with other designers and/or engineering teams
  • A primary objective is to serve our users, by being able to define knowledge needed to understand behavior in order to support teams on how to translate those findings into solutions for a product eco-system
  • Strong ability to communicate the rationale and thought process behind ideas and solutions and collaborate with people from different disciplines with different needs
  • BA, MA, BS, MS in Design (Interaction, Graphic, Product, etc.), Human-Computer Interaction, or equivalent
  • A passion for music-making 

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 within the EMEAwhich we have a work location.
  • Prefer an office to work from home 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 Central European 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.

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.
Questions & answers for this position
  • What is the type of contract for this position?
    The contract for this position is a Full-time contract
  • Is telecommuting possible for this position?
    No, telecommuting is not possible for this position
About Spotify
Spotify is all the music you’ll ever need.
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Audio, Cloud Computing
Founded
2006
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5K-10K employees

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