Senior Product Designer

DistroKid LLC; London; Remote; GBP 85,000 - 105,000

Job description

Senior Product Designer Wanted: Hit the High Notes with DistroKid!

SALARY: €102,000 - 125,000 EUR//£85,000 -105,000 GBP per annum

LOCATION: Fully remote; open to candidates living in the UK/EUROPE ONLY

SPONSORSHIP: No; Not provided at this time, including after student visas expire.

DistroKid is the world’s largest music distributor to Spotify, Apple, Google and more. Most new music today is released through DistroKid. Help us help millions of musicians be more prolific!

Summary:

DistroKid is seeking a seasoned Senior Product Designer to shape the user experience for our growing ecosystem of standalone and premium artist tools, including DistroVid and Mixea.

You'll work end-to-end to design features and improvements that delight our users while driving business impact. Working with a tight-knit Europe-based product and engineering team, you'll shape projects from start to finish, find creative ways to simplify complex problems, and ensure high-quality implementation. Beyond individual features, you'll help expand and unify our design language across multiple products while conducting research to better understand our artists' needs.

Our ideal candidate thinks holistically about both visual design and UX writing, recognizing that great copy is inseparable from great design. You'll help grow DistroKid’s design culture through hiring, process improvements, and regular design reviews, while having the opportunity to significantly influence company-wide strategies.

You will report to our Director of Product Design and have regular access to DistroKid leadership to discuss, iterate, and explore design ideas in a highly synergetic environment.

Your Setlist: Key Responsibilities

• A portfolio that showcases end-to-end projects you've shipped, demonstrating how you tackled real user problems, adapted to constraints, and delivered results. Format is up to you – we love anything from polished case studies to messy Figma files as long as they show your thinking
• Ability to take ambiguous, complex problems and transform them into simple, shippable features that users love
• Proven history of partnering with product, engineering, and cross-functional teams to shape design vision and strategy
• Ability to translate business objectives into customer-centered problems, and align teams around them
• Strong presentation skills and comfort with sharing work directly with company leadership
• Experience designing consumer-facing web and mobile products at scale

Your Track Record: Qualifications

• Ability to balance big thinking with incremental rollout strategies
• Strong written and verbal communication that helps others understand your work, process, and decisions – plus an eagerness for feedback that makes good work great
• Experience designing features that encourage organic sharing and viral engagement
• Familiarity with the music industry, digital distribution platforms, and/or subscription businesses
• A talent for infusing delight, joy, and personality into your designs
• Experience with programming and technical tools such as HTML, CSS, Terminal, Git, VSCode

About DistroKid

DistroKid was founded in 2013 to provide musicians, managers, and record labels with online tools and services that are innovative, easy-to-use, and affordable. Nearly 2 million artists rely on DistroKid and include hobbyists, up-and-coming musicians, top YouTubers, and household names like 21 Savage, Ludacris, Arizona Zervas, Will Smith, Tom Waits, and more. DistroKid’s expanding array of services includes music distribution, monetization, metadata customization, storage, and promotion. DistroKid’s small staff, coupled with a largely automated backend, has enabled DistroKid to process over 10 million songs—while simultaneously providing fast, personal & friendly customer service to artists of every size. Also, it’s fun to work here

For more information, visit https://distrokid.com.

DistroKid is an Equal Opportunity Employer

We are committed to building a diverse and inclusive team and strongly encourage applications from individuals of all backgrounds, identities, and experiences. We value a wide range of perspectives and believe that our differences make us stronger.