Senior Design Manager - Core Experience

Delivering the best Spotify experience possible. To as many people as possible. In as many moments as possible. That’s what the Experience team is all about. We use our deep understanding of consumer expectations to enrich the lives of millions of our users all over the world, bringing the music and audio they love to the devices, apps and platforms they use every day. Know what our users want? Join us and help Spotify give it to them.

We are looking for an experienced product design manager to join our team responsible for crafting the mobile app experience for Spotify. This team is at the heart of Spotify, developing new features and experiences for our listeners. You will be leading the charge on reimagining how listeners collect, manage, and retrieve the content they love -- as well as bringing brand new features into the product.

• Directly manage a team of designers, supporting them as they drive their personal and professional growth
• Influences and interprets the product vision to drive strategic execution of design through their team
• Works with our designers to ensure we have a deep understanding of user needs and that their design solutions fit into a consistent product experience
• Actively participates in key initiatives to help shape and guide solutions
• Challenges status quo on creativity and quality of design work across their team
• You are willing to get hands-on, partnering closely with other designers and/or engineering teams
• Work closely with Product and Insights to formulate clear design hypotheses & construct tests
• Promotes team’s design work to drive alignment across the other teams
• Proactively looks for and solves high-level issues and opportunities 

• You have 3+ years people management experience with designers in an agile product development environment
• You are comfortable working closely with product managers, engineering leads, user research teams, and data scientists to ship products
• You are a leader with practical design chops you don’t mind dusting off from time-to-time. You’ve shipped many consumer products over the years, and understand what it takes to build awesome product experiences.
• You have a keen eye for detail and can give effective direction and feedback to designers on the team
• You have great communication skills, both written and verbal
• You have a people-focused design mentality and want to design and build products/features that truly have meaningful impact
• 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

• We are a distributed workforce enabling our band members to find a work mode that is best for them!
• Where in the world? For this role, it can be in either location, London or Stockholm.
• Working hours? We operate within the Central European and GMT time zones for collaboration and ask that all be located in that time zone. 
• Prefer an office to work from home instead? Not a problem! We have plenty of options for your working preferences. Find more information about our Work From Anywhere  options here.