The Freemium R&D team oversees the entire user journey on Spotify and ensures we engage with people in innovative ways, every step of the way. Our team grows Spotify’s audience by finding future listeners around the world and delivering the right value to them, at the right time. With research, product development, product design, engineering, and marketing all collaborating in one organization, we’re able to quickly create meaningful features and services for millions of people around the world, resulting in joyful, long-lasting relationships with Spotify.
Join our team and help us usher the world into Spotify through curiosity, delight, and connection. The Design Technologist role is a key contributor on a 0-1 design team building the future of deep audio experiences – acting as a prototyper and accelerant to turn nascent ideas into tangible, testable artifacts.
What You'll Do
- You will use your front-end programming, design, and UX skills to advance the boundaries of how people use our service now and in the future
- You will embed with product designers, product managers, and researchers to explore new ideas large and small through rapid prototyping at breadth and depth – from strategic vision to concepts to building functional experiences
- You will build prototypes and run experiments
- You will offer design expertise to help fine-tune the appearance and UX of a productYou will develop and iterate rapid models of proposed design solutions for the purposes of communication, evaluation, and testing
- You will think beyond incremental features and help design new ways of thinking for the future of deep audio experiences
- You will be a culture carrier, mentoring other designers in developing their skills
Who You Are
- You are a designer with front-end development skills or a front-end developer with design chops with relevant experience as a front-end technologist, engineer, or UX prototyper
- You have experience prototyping products to see if they’re viable – you learn by trying (bonus: you have experience with 0-1 product development)
- You can jump in at any design phase: wireframes, click-throughs, mocks, and prototypes at all levels of fidelity
- You thrive collaborating with other designers and partnering with product managers, engineers, and researchers
- You bring a playfulness to your work and to the people you work withYou have impeccable craft
- You have excellent written and verbal communication, presentation, interpersonal, and analytical skills
- You have an understanding and fluent usage across a broad spectrum of technologies including (but not limited to): JavaScript / NodeJS, HTML / CSS, XML / JSON, and Responsive / Adaptive Design
- You have an available online portfolio
- You can provide coding samples in front-end programming languages
Where You'll Be
- We are a distributed workforce enabling our band members to find a work mode that is best for them!
- Where in the world? For this role, it can be within the America region in which we have a work location and is within working hours.
- Working hours? We operate within the Eastern Standard Time and EST time zones for collaboration and ask that all be located in that time zone.
- 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.
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.