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The contract for this position is a Full-time contract

What's the salary range for the Senior Design Manager - Core Experience position?

The suggested salary for this position is $178,050-$208,750*

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Senior Design Manager - Core job at Spotify

Delivering the best Spotify experience possible. To as many people as possible. In as many moments as possible. That’s what the Experience team is all about. We use our deep understanding of consumer expectations to enrich the lives of millions of our users all over the world, bringing the music and audio they love to the devices, apps and platforms they use every day. Know what our users want? Join us and help Spotify give it to them.

We are looking for an experienced product design manager to join our team responsible for crafting the mobile app experience for Spotify. This team is at the heart of Spotify, developing new features and experiences for our listeners. You will be leading the charge on reimagining how listeners collect, manage, and retrieve the content they love -- as well as bringing brand new features into the product

What you´ll do

Directly manage a team of designers, supporting them as they drive their personal and professional growth
Influences and interprets the product vision to drive strategic execution of design through their team
Works with our designers to ensure we have a deep understanding of user needs and that their design solutions fit into a consistent product experience
Actively participates in key initiatives to help shape and guide solutions
Challenges status quo on creativity and quality of design work across their team
You are willing to get hands-on, partnering closely with other designers and/or engineering teams
Work closely with Product and Insights to formulate clear design hypotheses & construct tests
Promotes team’s design work to drive alignment across the other teams
Proactively looks for and solves high-level issues and opportunities

Who you are

You have 3+ years people management experience with designers in an agile product development environment
You are comfortable working closely with product managers, engineering leads, user research teams, and data scientists to ship products
You are a leader with practical design chops you don’t mind dusting off from time-to-time. You’ve shipped many consumer products over the years, and understand what it takes to build awesome product experiences.
You have a keen eye for detail and can give effective direction and feedback to designers on the team
You have great communication skills, both written and verbal
You have a people-focused design mentality and want to design and build products/features that truly have meaningful impact
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 that is best for them!
Where in the world? For this role, it can be within the EMEA region or the Americas region in which we have a work location and is within working hours.
Working hours? We operate within the Central European/GMT and Eastern Standard time zone for collaboration and ask that all be located in that time zone.
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.

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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.

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