Product Designer

ION® Audio; Cambridge; On-site; GBP 60,000 - 90,000; Full time

Job summary

inMusic is seeking a Product Designer to shape intuitive, expressive music creation experiences across complex product areas, partnering with product, engineering, research, content and marketing teams to deliver cohesive user experiences. We are open to senior level candidates.

You will define problems, explore solutions, and produce UX/UI flows, prototypes, and design specifications. Collaborating with cross‑functional teams to validate decisions, you’ll contribute to design systems and mentor

Qualifications

• Strong portfolio demonstrating end-to-end design thinking and measurable impact.
• Experience shaping product design across software and music technology.
• Ability to work with cross-functional teams and stakeholders.

Responsibilities

• Define and frame product design problems, strategy, and success criteria.
• Explore multiple solutions and communicate design rationale clearly.
• Produce high-quality UX/UI flows, prototypes, and design specifications.
• Partner with product managers, engineers, researchers, and data teams to validate decisions.
• Ensure design quality, usability, accessibility, and customer relevance.
• Contribute to design standards, systems, critiques, and team practices.
• Mentor less experienced designers and help raise the quality of design work.
• Product design experience in software, creative tools, web products, or music technology.
• Strong portfolio showing end-to-end design thinking and measurable impact.

Skills

Strong portfolio

Cross-functional collaboration

Ambiguity management

Communication skills

Job description

We are seeking a Product Designer to shape intuitive, expressive, and commercially meaningful music creation experiences. This role works across complex product areas, partnering with product, engineering, research, content, and marketing teams to deliver cohesive user experiences. We are willing to consider senior level candidates for this role.

• Define and frame product design problems, strategy, and success criteria.
• Explore multiple solutions and communicate design rationale clearly.
• Produce high-quality UX/UI flows, interaction models, prototypes, and design specifications.
• Partner with product managers, engineers, researchers, and data teams to validate decisions.
• Ensure design quality, consistency, usability, accessibility, and customer relevance.
• Contribute to design standards, systems, critiques, and team practices.
• Mentor less experienced designers and help raise the quality of design work.
• Product design experience in software, creative tools, web products, music technology, or complex technical experiences.
• Strong portfolio showing end-to-end design thinking and measurable impact.
• Ability to manage ambiguity and simplify complex workflows.
• Experience collaborating closely with engineering and product teams.
• Comfort using research, data, and customer feedback to guide design choices.
• Strong communication skills and ability to influence without relying on authority.
• Work on products and platforms used by creators, producers, performers, DJs, and musicians around the world.
• Help shape the future of music creation technology across a global portfolio of brands.
• Join a practical, creative environment that values clear thinking, customer impact, and measurable outcomes.

inMusic is the parent company for a family of premier brands that includes AIR Music Technology, Akai Professional, Alesis, Alto Professional, Denon DJ, Denon Pro, Marantz Professional, HeadRush, ION Audio, Marq Lighting, M-Audio, MixMeister, Moog, Numark, Rane, and Sonivox. Committed to pushing the boundaries of innovation in the DJ, music production, live sound, musical instrument, pro audio, lighting and consumer electronics industries, each of inMusic's brands creates cutting-edge products that incorporate and build upon the latest in engineering, design, and technology.