Job description
Design
Product Design
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.
Location
New York or Remote ESTAmericas
Job type
Permanent
Join our team and help us usher the world into Spotify through curiosity, delight, and connection. In this role, you will act as player-coach: leading, running, and growing a diverse and inclusive 0-1 team of product designers – setting focus, strategy, and priorities to help individuals grow in their careers and improve influence and impact.
What you'll do
- You will build, manage, and mentor a diverse team of product designers that consistently deliver impact across interdisciplinary design skill sets
- Lead design through best-practices, attention to detail, experimentation, and unconventional thinking
- Provide context, support, and guidance – you will inspire, not merely direct
- Develop your team in design discovery and experimentation to uncover the biggest and best opportunities for us to research, prototype, and test
- Take broad conceptual ideas and turn them into useful and valuable products for people who use our service
- Set the complete design vision and actively guide your team through all phases of design and development – from conceptualization to engineering execution and post-launch success tracking and iteration
- Enable collaboration and cross-functional alignment
- Be responsible for overall team performance and health, resource allocation, project prioritization, and building a culture of design excellence
- Cultivate a healthy design process for the team, and be a key contributor to your team’s product strategy
Who you are
- You have 10+ years of experience in Product Design, 4+ years of design leadership experience with direct reports under your guidance and leadership, and 4+ years of experience working collaboratively with product, engineering, design, and research
- You're an experienced, entrepreneurial, visionary leader of 0-1 product design teams at consumer-facing companies
- Comfortable with ambiguity and whitespace and have a track record of identifying opportunities few others can
- Passionate about design and what it can do for the music, content, and technology industries
- A leader with practical design chops – You’ve shipped many products over the years and understand what it takes to build exciting, delightful, and unexpected consumer-orientated experiences
- You're a trusted and recognized leader, consistently demonstrating credibility in cross-functional interactions
- A fantastic communicator – You have the communication skills to help you work effectively with cross-functional peers and stakeholders
- You thrive when developing great people and great products
- You bring a playfulness to your work and to the people you work with
- You have a broad product design background and and well-versed in data-informed product design and development
- Experience working with growth initiatives in some capacity
- You want to make an impact and take on big complex issues
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 Americas region in which we have a work location and is within working hours.
- Working hours? We operate within the 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.
Our global benefits
Extensive learning opportunities, through our dedicated team, GreenHouse.
Flexible share incentives letting you choose how you share in our success.
Global parental leave, six months off - fully paid - for all new parents.
All The Feels, our employee assistance program and self-care hub.
Flexible public holidays, swap days off according to your values and beliefs.
Spotify On Tour, join your colleagues on trips to industry festivals and events.
Learn about life at Spotify
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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