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Spotify

London

Staff Product Designer - Platform Design at Spotify

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Posted about 10 hours ago
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Spotify

Spotify is a digital music service that provides users with on-demand access to millions of songs, enabling them to discover, manage, and share music while ensuring fair compensation for artists.

Internet B2C Broadcasting Mobile
HQ
Stockholm, Stockholm County, Sweden
Team size
5K-10K
Founded
2006
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Quick Summary

Role Overview

As a Staff Product Designer, you will combine product leadership with hands-on design and engineering to shape the Spotify Technology portfolio. You will establish distinctive visual languages and transform internal tools into products that external customers love using.

Key Responsibilities

  • Shape the experience strategy for a key part of the Spotify Technology portfolio
  • Establish a distinctive visual language for developer and platform tools
  • Transform internal infrastructure tools into polished products for external customers
  • Collaborate closely with product, engineering, and marketing partners on delivery
  • Build and ship user interfaces using a modern front-end technology stack
  • Influence product decisions through compelling design work and storytelling

Requirements Snapshot

  • Extensive experience in product design with high-quality visual and interaction skills
  • Proficiency in building and shipping interfaces with modern front-end technology
  • Background in designing developer tools, enterprise software, or platform products
  • Experience applying generative AI and agentic tools to the design workflow
  • Ability to navigate ambiguity using research and data to solve complex problems

Expected Impact

You will define the future of developer tools by making complex technology feel effortless and high-quality. Your work will enable engineering organizations worldwide to scale effectively using Spotify's proven infrastructure and services.

A DesignJobs.World summary of the employer's posting, written to highlight scope, requirements, and fit (AI-assisted, human-reviewed). For full details, see the description below.

Job Description

The Platform team creates the technology that enables Spotify to learn quickly and scale easily, enabling rapid growth in our users and our business around the globe. Spanning many disciplines, we work to make the business work; creating the infrastructure, tooling, frameworks, and capabilities needed to welcome a billion customers.

Spotify runs on the tools we've built for ourselves. They help hundreds of teams ship every day to hundreds of millions of people around the world. Now, we're sharing them.

Spotify Technology brings our proven tools and services together for engineering organisations everywhere, from global enterprises to individual developers. As AI reshapes how software gets made, we're building on years of experience solving complex engineering challenges at scale.

Platform Design makes these powerful tools feel effortless. We shape the services, products and experiences used by Spotify's engineering teams and by developers around the world. We believe great design is a competitive advantage, and developer tools deserve the same care and craft as any consumer product.

As a Staff Product Designer, you'll combine product leadership with hands-on design and engineering. You'll shape the experience strategy for a key part of the Spotify Technology portfolio, establish a distinctive visual language, and turn internal tools into products customers love using. You'll work closely with product, engineering and marketing partners, reporting to the Spotify Technology Design Director.

Who You Are

  • You have a strong background in product design, with experience shaping complex digital products and delivering high-quality visual and interaction design.
  • You're comfortable working across strategy and execution, setting a clear product direction while staying close to the details of design and delivery.
  • You can build and ship user interfaces using a modern front-end technology stack, and enjoy bringing your designs into production.
  • You understand how to create cohesive visual experiences across product and brand, with a thoughtful approach to interaction, motion and design systems.
  • You bring an understanding of developer tools, enterprise software or platform products, including the challenges of designing for technical audiences.
  • You use generative AI and agentic tools in your work, applying sound judgement about where they add value and where human expertise matters most.
  • You're comfortable navigating ambiguity, using research, data and customer insights to make informed decisions and solve complex problems.
  • You communicate ideas clearly, build trust across disciplines and influence product decisions through compelling design work and storytelling.
  • You care about helping others grow, welcome different perspectives and contribute to an inclusive, collaborative environment where great work can happen.

Where You'll Be

  • This role is based in London, UK or Stockholm, Sweden
  • 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.
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