Staff Designer - Strategic AI Partnerships

Spotify; City Of London; Hybrid; GBP 80,000 - 100,000; Full time

Job summary

A leading audio streaming service is seeking a Staff Product Designer in London to define and deliver experiences in third-party AI agents and ecosystems. You will lead the design of innovative solutions while collaborating with technology partners. Ideal candidates are experienced in AI design, have a strong visual design background, and can effectively communicate with senior stakeholders. This role offers a flexible working arrangement with required travel for partner collaboration.

Qualifications

• Senior design leader with deep literacy in AI, both conceptually and practically.
• Outstanding craft and forward-looking interaction design demonstrated in portfolio.
• Experience in partnering with major technology companies.

Responsibilities

• Imagine and design user experiences for Spotify within third-party AI agents and ecosystems.
• Lead the end-to-end design of AI-driven experiences across Spotify’s formats.
• Collaborate with external design and product teams at leading technology companies.

Skills

Deep AI literacy

Strong design craft

Experience with technology partners

Expert in visual design

Excellent communicator

Job description

Overview

Spotify is seeking a Staff Product Designer to help define and deliver the future of Spotify’s experience in third-party AI agents and ecosystems. This is a rare opportunity to shape how music, podcasts, and audiobooks are discovered, consumed, and enjoyed as the paradigm of interaction shifts toward agentic, AI-driven experiences.

In this role, you will bring deep AI literacy, strong design craft, and proven experience working with major technology partners. You’ll envision, prototype, and deliver elegant solutions that work within partner design systems while championing Spotify’s identity and strategic goals. Working across design, product, engineering, and business development teams, you’ll help ensure Spotify leads in this new frontier.

What You’ll Do

• Imagine and design user experiences for Spotify within third-party AI agents, voice assistants, and ecosystems.
• Partner closely with Spotify’s Business Development team during early partner engagement stages to articulate opportunities, pitch Spotify’s vision, and land high-impact experiences.
• Collaborate with external design and product teams at leading technology companies, balancing partner constraints with Spotify’s design standards and user needs.
• Lead the end-to-end design of AI-driven experiences across Spotify’s formats: music, podcasts, and audiobooks.
• Apply system thinking and UX expertise to craft scalable, cohesive experiences in partner environments.
• Elevate visual quality and interaction design, ensuring experiences feel both native to partner ecosystems and distinctly Spotify.
• Develop prototypes and design explorations that bring new interaction paradigms to life, pushing beyond today’s norms.
• Work closely with Spotify business development, product, engineering teams to align AI partnership experiences with Spotify’s broader strategy.
• Represent design in conversations with senior leaders, making clear trade-offs that balance user delight, partner constraints, and business impact.
• Act as a thought partner for internal teams, helping shape Spotify’s positioning and execution in the AI ecosystem.

Who You Are

• A senior design leader with deep literacy in AI - both conceptually and practically - and already playing a pioneering role in the AI design space.
• Expert in visual design, UX, and system thinking, with a portfolio that demonstrates outstanding craft and forward-looking interaction design.
• Experienced in partnering with major technology companies, navigating their ecosystems, and delivering successful joint experiences.
• Creative and resourceful, able to find elegant solutions within constraints of partner design systems.
• Skilled at balancing strategic priorities and business impact with design quality.
• Technically fluent, able to collaborate with engineers and product managers on prototyping and implementation.
• Excellent communicator, comfortable representing Spotify to senior external stakeholders and pitching bold ideas.

Where You’ll Be

• This role can be based in London.
• 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.
• Must have availability to overlap with US West Coast time zones for partner collaboration.
• Travel will be required to meet with external partners.

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.