Product Designer, Personalization

We are looking for a Product Designer to drive design solutions and partner with our design, technology, and product teams on key initiatives in Personalization. The ideal candidate is someone who is passionate about creating solutions based on insights of real people across the world, has the foundations of their craft to turn these insights into beautifully designed products (both interactions and visuals) and inspires the organization by showing/prototyping what is possible before it is built.

The Personalization team makes deciding what to play next easier and more enjoyable for every listener. From the Spotify Home feed to AI DJ to Discover Weekly, we’re behind some of Spotify’s most-loved features. We built them by understanding the world of music, podcasts, and audiobooks better than anyone else. Join us and you’ll keep millions of users listening by making phenomenal recommendations to each and every one of them. 

• Explore and design solutions across the entire product lifecycle, from finding opportunities to designing and validating solutions. You will help create the space for others to collaborate.
• Let users lead the way. Our users inform where we are going. Our teams focus on understanding how users connect to audio in different parts of the world, and letting their needs guide us to the best solutions. It’s important for us to know we are solving for real people and not just the loudest voice in the room.
• Work with small multi-disciplinary teams. You’ll partner closely with design, engineering and product folks to find elegant but practical solutions to design challenges. Together, you’ll address problems and come up with solutions that delight our users.
• You’ll take full ownership of your work, and you take responsibility for every last detail, every step of the way, with support from your fellow designers and Design manager.
• Rapidly produce multiple concepts and prototypes; knowing when to apply pixel-perfect attention to detail, and when to make low-fi sketches, user flows, user stories and prototypes.

• You have 2+ years of related experience designing at consumer-focused tech companies.
• You understand that design isn’t just about look and feel, but how it works.
• You are highly motivated to learn new things about complex technology, like how algorithms surface content and their impact on user experiences.
• You get nervous if you’re not sketching concepts, tweaking flows or polishing the designs that represent the big-thinking work. Your head is in the clouds while your feet are on the ground.
• You’re a great communicator. You have the communication skills to help set up frameworks and brainstorm initial design concepts.
• You strive to have a people-focused design mentality. Even though you have strong design chops, you are constantly looking to hone your design instinct through user feedback. Whether through hands-on user research, or by designing options for an A/B test.
• You have an online portfolio, or PDF that you can share with us. A link to your online portfolio, or a PDF, is required. Applications without a portfolio are unlikely to be considered.
• You are able to provide a brief explanation in your application of why you are excellent for this role, while highlighting your portfolio.

• This role requires someone in a location that is within a reasonable commuting distance to our New York or Boston offices.
• Working hours? We operate within the EST zone for collaboration.

The United States base range for this position is $94,793- $135,418 plus equity. The benefits available for this position include health insurance, six month paid parental leave, 401(k) retirement plan, monthly meal allowance, 23 paid days off, 13 paid flexible holidays, paid sick leave. These ranges may be modified in the future.