Product Designer - Audiobooks

Spotify; Greater London; Hybrid; GBP 60,000 - 80,000; Full time

Job summary

An international audio streaming company is looking for a Product Designer II based in London. The role focuses on defining Audiobooks experiences while collaborating with a diverse team. Responsibilities include ensuring design quality and advocating for customer needs. Ideal candidates will have strong communication skills, a collaborative spirit, and a passion for creating inclusive experiences. This position offers flexibility in work arrangements and is committed to inclusivity in the workplace.

Benefits

Flexible work environment

Inclusive workplace

Supportive recruitment process

Qualifications

• Experience as a Product Designer in a digital environment.
• Ability to advocate for design goals and influence roadmaps.
• Proficiency in working with both design and engineering teams.

Responsibilities

• Responsible for design quality and cohesion across features.
• Influence the team’s design strategy based on customer needs.
• Collaborate closely with team members and stakeholders.

Skills

Solid communication

Building trusting relationships

Identifying opportunities

Inclusivity

Collaboration

Job description

We’re looking for a Product Designer II to join our team and help us define Audiobooks experiences that excite listeners, authors, & publishers - while growing Spotify’s business around the world. You’ll be collaborating with a diverse and inclusive cross‑functional team, helping establish and scale this new content vertical.

What You’ll Do

• Responsible for design quality and cohesion for a set of features in SFA.
• Triangulate team strategy with Author & Publisher strategy and broader Audiobooks Vertical strategy.
• Push back when needed, and address root problems, not just symptoms.
• Tie work to business goals and customer needs. Advocate for design goals to stakeholders and influence the team’s roadmap.
• Embrace complexity, and find patterns and ways of organizing content and information that allow the customer to focus on the primary JTBD while also understanding where they are and how to navigate.
• Identify opportunities to incorporate and combine words, visuals, inputs, and time to improve overall UX and customer satisfaction.
• Partner with Researchers and Data Scientists to identify what questions we need to answer, and challenges/influences the team’s understanding of the problem.
• Have a solid track record of delivering value that meets team objectives (e.g., metrics, discovery objective, enablement objective, KR).
• Focus on driving outcomes, not just outputs. Influences how their team defines success metrics.
• Know when and how to apply any or all fundamentals of graphic design to bring clarity to complexity.
• Partner with design and front‑end engineers to create prototypes with motion and real data. Understand the dependencies between design, front‑end and backend technologies. Use prototyping to clarify design direction and document product and design rationale over time.

Who You Are

• You are a solid communicator – sharing relevant information within and across teams.
• Build trusting relationships with peers that allow for more critical feedback.
• Help identify opportunities and propose changes that improve collaboration across teams. Anticipate problems and troubleshoot independently.
• Act inclusively with others when leading work and initiatives. Hold others accountable for non‑inclusive behaviors or behaviors that impact the psychological safety of others.
• Contribute to a healthy and growing design organization, inside your team/domain and across the Design org.
• Review portfolios and conduct interviews as needed.

Where You’ll Be

• This role is based in our London office.
• We offer you the flexibility to work where you work best! There will be some in‑person meetings, but still allows for flexibility to work from home.

Spotify is an equal opportunity employer. You are welcome at Spotify for who you are, no matter where you come from, what you look like, or what’s playing in your headphones. Our platform is for everyone, and so is our workplace. The more voices we have represented and amplified in our business, the more we will all thrive, contribute, and be forward‑thinking! So bring us your personal experience, your perspectives, and your background. It’s in our differences that we will find the power to keep revolutionizing the way the world listens.

At Spotify, we are passionate about inclusivity and making sure our entire recruitment process is accessible to everyone. We have ways to request reasonable accommodations during the interview process and help assist in what you need. If you need accommodations at any stage of the application or interview process, please let us know – we’re here to support you in any way we can.

Spotify transformed music listening forever when we launched in 2008. Our mission is to unlock the potential of human creativity by giving a million creative artists the opportunity to live off their art and billions of fans the chance to enjoy and be passionate about these creators. Everything we do is driven by our love for music and podcasting. Today, we are the world’s most popular audio streaming subscription service.

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