Senior Product Designer

SoundCloud empowers artists and fans to connect and share through music. Founded in 2007, SoundCloud is an artist-first platform empowering artists to build and grow their careers by providing them with the most progressive tools, services, and resources. With over 400+ million tracks from 40 million artists, the future of music is SoundCloud. SoundCloud is the world's largest open audio platform, empowering creators to share, connect, and build their careers. Our mission is to provide artists with the tools they need to grow their audience, monetize their work, and engage with their fans. We are looking for a Senior Product Designer to help shape the future of creator tools for musical artists, ensuring they have the best experience creating, distributing, and managing their music on SoundCloud.

As a Senior Product Designer on the Creator Team, you will play a key role in defining and designing intuitive, impactful, and innovative tools for artists, producers, and music creators. You will collaborate closely with product managers, engineers, user researchers, and other designers to craft experiences that empower artists to thrive on SoundCloud.

Key Responsibilities:

• Lead Design Initiatives: Own and drive the end-to-end design process for creator-focused products, from discovery to execution.
• User-Centered Design: Conduct user research and leverage insights to create intuitive workflows, UI, and interactions that support creators in uploading, managing, and monetizing their content.
• Cross-Functional Collaboration: Work closely with product managers, engineers, and other stakeholders to ensure designs align with business and user needs.
• Prototyping & Testing: Develop wireframes, prototypes, and high-fidelity designs to validate concepts and iterate based on feedback.
• Design System Contribution: Help evolve and maintain SoundCloud's design system, ensuring consistency and scalability across creator tools.
• Data-Driven Decision Making: Use data, analytics, and user feedback to refine designs and measure their impact on creator engagement and satisfaction.
• Advocacy for Creators: Champion the needs of artists, ensuring their voices are reflected in SoundCloud's product strategy and design solutions.

Experience and Background:

• 5+ years of experience in product design, UX/UI, or interaction design, preferably in music, creator economy, or content platforms.
• A strong portfolio showcasing work on complex web and mobile applications, with a focus on tools for creators.
• Expertise in Figma.
• Strong understanding of design systems, interaction design, and usability best practices.
• Experience conducting user research and usability testing to inform design decisions.
• Ability to translate complex workflows into simple, intuitive experiences.
• A passion for music, audio culture, and empowering artists to grow their careers.
• Excellent communication and collaboration skills, with the ability to present and justify design decisions to stakeholders.

The salary range for this role is $150,000- $175,000 annually. The final salary offered will be determined based on relative experience, skills, internal equity, and location. We also offer a generous total rewards program.

About us:

• We are a multinational company with offices in the US (New York and Los Angeles), Germany (Berlin), and the UK (London).
• We provide a flexible work culture that offers the opportunity to collaborate and connect in person at our offices as well as accommodating work from home.
• We are deeply committed to ensuring diversity, equity and inclusion at all levels of our organization and fostering a community where everyone's voice, perspective and experience is respected and heard.
• We believe a strong team is made by investing in employees through mentorship, workshops and enrichment opportunities.

Benefits:

• Comprehensive health benefits including medical, dental, and vision plans, as well as mental health resources.
• Robust 401k program.
• Employee Equity Plan.
• Generous professional development allowance.
• Interested in a gym membership, photography course or book? We have a Creativity and Wellness benefit
• Flexible vacation and public holiday policy where you can take up to 35 days of PTO annually.
• 16 paid weeks for all parents (birthing and non-birthing), regardless of gender, to welcome newborns, adopted and foster children.
• Various snacks, goodies, and 2 free lunches weekly when at the office.

Diversity, Equity and Inclusion at SoundCloud:

SoundCloud is for everyone. Diversity and open expression are fundamental to our organization; they help us lead what's next in music by understanding and empowering our creators and fans, no matter their identity. We acknowledge the challenges in the music industry and strive to influence an inclusive culture where everyone can contribute respectfully and thrive, especially the historically marginalized communities that many of our creators, fans and SoundClouders identify with. We are dedicated to creating an inclusive environment at SoundCloud for everyone, regardless of gender identity, sexual orientation, race, ethnicity, migration background, national origin, age, disability status, or care-giver status.

At SoundCloud you can find your community or elevate your allyship by joining a Diversity Resource Group. Diversity Resource Groups are employee-organized groups focused on supporting and promoting the interests of a particular underrepresented community in order to build a more inclusive culture at SoundCloud. Anyone can join, whether you share the identity or strive to be an ally.