Product Designer - Design Systems

We’re looking for a Product Designer to join as a key member of the Foundations design systems team inside Spotify's flagship Consumer Experience, Spotify’s Mobile App. You’ll articulate a shared vision, craft compelling stories and set inspiring creative directions.

• Work day-to-day in a cross-functional team of engineers, designers, and product managers to build and maintain an end-to-end Mobile design system for Spotify’s consumer experience.
• This isn’t a role solely dedicated to systems and Figma components, you will also Identify and lead foundational work streams that drive efficiencies in our design team’s day to day workflows.
• Experiment with designing and building PoC plugins for tooling e.g. Figma that drives efficiencies in the design team’s workflow.
• Partner with product designers working on the Consumer Mobile App to identify and develop new, and improve existing components and patterns.
• Collaborate with our broader design systems team, Encore on evolving our shared processes and tooling to support a large number of teams working on a diverse array of products.
• Build work that scales and flexes across a variety of audiences, mobile devices and tablets.
• Empower our Core-x Design team  of 40+ globally distributed designers by providing resources and clarity around Spotify’s mobile design system standard methodologies.
• Collaborate with Design Ops to measure and iterate on processes and internal tooling for designers at Spotify.
• Be autonomous. You take full ownership of your work and drive your personal development. And you take responsibility for every last detail, every step of the way.
• Champion our Figma Ways of Working and continuously look at ways to improve our Figma architecture, file structures/specs and design QA.
• Maintain and enhance our existing libraries, components and broader templates/platforms.
• Work on horizontal features that impact the broader product experience.

• You have several years of experience working in-house for consumer-facing digital product companies.
• You are technically-minded, interested in code as the material digital products are made of.
• You have possibly built a Figma plugin or leveraged Figma’s api’s, analytics etc.
• You are familiar and comfortable working within and contributing to large design systems that you may or may not own directly.
• You have experience developing custom creative tooling for internal or external audiences.
• You think of interfaces as dynamic and love thinking about motion and flows.
• You are intimately familiar with the capabilities and constraints of several of today’s and tomorrow’s digital devices and platforms.
• You value inclusive design and accessibility and don’t believe it has to mean compromising aesthetics.
• You have a user- and data-focused design mentality. You are constantly looking to hone your team's instincts through user feedback and data insight. You understand the role and importance of qualitative and quantitative methodologies.
• You are a thoughtful designer and problem solver who questions the status quo and strives for improvement.

• This role is based in Stockholm or 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.

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.