Staff Product Designer - Music
Description
- Co-create business and design strategy for the Spotify for Artists platform in collaboration with Senior Management and Product Area leadership, shaping an exciting and impactful vision.
- Partner closely with product, insights, and tech counterparts to craft a customer-centric and data-informed user experience for Spotify for Artists, translating it into an inspiring Design Strategy for your team.
- Take ownership of a complex product and platform spanning multiple internal Spotify teams, delivering a top-class experience for artists and their teams.
- Identify new problems and opportunities, guiding teams in understanding, researching, and defining effective strategies to solve them.
- Lead product designers by instilling great design practices, attention to detail, and innovative thinking, driving impactful outcomes for the business.
- Steer design execution to achieve customer and business goals, providing guidance to other product designers for well-rounded solutions.
- Drive the usage of our design system, develop UX frameworks, and advocate for reusability and consistency.
- Set a high bar for product design quality and mentor designers to enable their success.
- Thoughtfully choose the appropriate fidelity and format to communicate ideas, painting a vivid picture of the future and influencing roadmaps and strategies.
- Act as a subject matter expert in product design expert for the Spotify for Artists space, pioneering and scaling our tools and ecosystem.
- Contribute to defining and establishing best practices and standards for localization, accessibility, and inclusion in design.
Requirements
- Strong product design knowledge and exceptional craft that inspires and drives execution. Experience and passion for building impactful products and systems at scale.
- Have a track record of shipping digital products and a deep understanding of what great product design looks like. You have a strong design portfolio demonstrating your ability to create visually appealing and user-friendly products.
- Strong understanding of visual design and UI principles, including consistency, color, typography, and animation. Attention to detail and knowledge of best practices in creating visually stunning and cohesive experiences.
- Demonstrated expertise in designing and successfully launching products for businesses, specifically targeting the growth and success of key business lines. Additional value is given to candidates with experience in creator products, marketplaces, the music industry, and enterprise solutions (B2B).
- Desire to make a significant impact and tackle complex domains.
- Comfortable working in ambiguous spaces and skilled in data-driven execution and testing.
- Excellent storytelling and communication skills to foster healthy collaboration with internal and external stakeholders.
- Trusted to balance qualitative and quantitative testing, combining data-informed intuition and design expertise.
- Ability to build strong relationships with cross-functional peers and Product Area leads.
- Transparent communication, fostering trust within and across teams.
- Advocacy for best practices and ability to support and coach other designers in improving their craft.
- Drive for inclusion and equity, holding others accountable for non-inclusive behaviors, and cultivating a psychologically safe environment.
- 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 Americas region in which we have a work location
- Prefer to work from an office? 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 time zone for collaboration
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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 opportunity to enjoy and be inspired by it. Spotify transformed music listening forever when it launched in Sweden in 2008. Discover, manage and share over 50m tracks for free, or upgrade to Spotify Premium to access exclusive features including offline mode, improved sound quality, and an ad-free music listening experience. Today, Spotify is the most popular global audio streaming service with 345m users, including 155m subscribers across 101 markets. We are the largest driver of revenue to the music business today.