Product designer - Software instruments & effects / Designer produit - Instrument logiciels et [...]

Arturia designs musical instruments and software for musicians and producers, professionals and beginners alike. Its mission is to make music creation accessible to everyone through technology, and to offer the most intuitive and user-friendly experience.

Arturia started its journey in 1999 with the recreation of legendary analog synthesizers in software form, which then led to developing a full range of hardware synthesizers and contemporary audio tools. The products rely on innovation to offer a daring, accessible, fun, and inspiring approach to sound exploration.

Arturia is growing and now employs over 180 passionate people located in France, the USA, Hong-Kong, Mexico, and the UK. Arturians share an ambition for excellence, values such as transparency and simplicity, and a culture of celebration around successes.

As Product Designer at ARTURIA, you join a team of passionate Product Managers and Product Designers, connected by a love of music, imagining and designing the future of musical production.

Historically known for software recreations of vintage Hardware with a special ARTURIA twist, we now increasingly use this knowledge to develop our own software synthesizers and effects. You will help us on this journey by designing intuitive and engaging products that inspire people’s musical journeys and influence our industry.

Besides the Product Team, you join an international team with an incredible breadth and depth of skills both as a professional and musical individual, who apply these skills to products we love working on and using.

So, if modern computer-based music production excites you or you are keen to dig into it, we would love to hear from you!

What you will do:

• Take (full) Product Design ownership of the projects assigned to you, from lofi wireframes & moodboards to implemented end product
• Ideate and brainstorm design concepts and ideas in collaboration with the Product Design Team and Product Managers
• Help our team craft & refine Arturia’s design language and contribute to our design system
• Conduct user testing to identify opportunities that make your designs more intuitive, simple and meaningful
• Present your projects to stakeholders and collect and prioritise feedback
• Deliver design assets to our developers and review the implementation of your work to guarantee smooth and high-quality development
• Inspire our customers and us with your designs and help us shape the future of music making

What do we offer:

• Hybrid system working
• Professional training
• Working on some of the most exciting products in the music industry
• A friendly working environment, punctuated by celebrations of our successes

At Arturia, we recognize the skills of people with disabilities and give them the means to express all their talents.

Location: Grenoble, France

Contract: permanent contract

Your profile:

• You have a postgraduate degree in Product Design, UI/Visual Design, Graphic Design or other relevant field.
• 3+ years professional experience as a Product Designer or UX/UI Designer working on software products or apps, with a portfolio to match.
• Your user-centric design approach allows you to identify with users’ needs and combined with a sound understanding of UX principles you deliver meaningful, engaging and easy to use solutions.
• Your outstanding visual design skills create strong visual identities that tell distinct stories.
• You are proficient with Figma and other design tools and communicate design ideas through sketches, lofi to high-fidelity wireframes and prototypes.
• Your proactive attitude and excellent collaboration and communication skills allow you to work both as a team and independently.
• You’re experienced managing your own projects, providing transparency and working efficiently on multiple projects at a time within tight time constraints.
• You’re passionate about music, you have experience making music and ideally you even have work experience in the field.
• Fluent English required (oral/written), French is a plus.