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Senior Product Designer job at Spotify

We’re looking for an experienced designer to shape the future of products that enable millions of artists and hundreds of millions of fans to enhance Spotify’s music experience with unique visual expression formats. As a design leader, you will create world-class UX storytelling and product strategies rooted firmly in user insights that paint an exciting vision and inspire senior leadership and the broader organization. You will deliver on that vision across a number of teams through effective planning, workshop facilitation, interaction design, visual design, and prototypes. You will also have the opportunity to help develop other designers.

As the design lead, you will lead product discovery and execution in partnership with senior members of engineering management, technical staff, product management, research, and data science. You will be responsible for the creator and consumer-facing experiences in Spotify’s apps and Spotify for Artists.

What you'll do:

Lead design projects across the entire product lifecycle and multiple product launches.
Set the vision for the user experience and build the space for others to collaborate.
Ensure customer-centricity and usability of highly-complex and technical products.
Work across multiple multi-disciplinary teams that make up an R&D organization and partner closely with engineering, product, and business counterparts.
Provide design thinking and leadership to develop the right product strategy for the organization and produce UX storytelling to communicate that strategy broadly.
Be autonomous. You’ll take full ownership of your work, and take responsibility for every last detail, every step of the way.
Rapidly produce multiple concepts and prototypes, and know how and when to build and combine flows, user stories, sketches, wireframes, and deliver pixel-perfect specs.

Who you are:

You are an incredible designer with amazing design chops. You’ve shipped many products over the years that have served customers at scale.
You’re a great communicator. You can create frameworks, facilitate product teams during product discovery with structured workshops, and brainstorm initial design concepts. You can effectively mentor others to deliver work, and make strategy come to life.
You ideally have experience designing for content creators and different media formats
You are a hardworking systems thinker and problem solver who can connect the dots between various user groups and industry workflows and turn them into simple and impactful design solutions and flows.
You’re a confident prototyper who can vision to life.
You’re constantly sketching concepts, tweaking flows, or refining designs that represent the big-thinking work.
You have a people-focused design mentality. You are constantly looking to refine your designs through user feedback, whether through hands-on user research, or designing options for A/B tests.
You have an online portfolio or PDF that you can share with us.

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 region 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 position is not eligible to be performed in Colorado.

Senior Product Designer, Visual Music Formats

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