Senior Product Designer

1 Month ago • 5 Years + • Design

Job Summary

Job Description

As a Senior Product Designer at SoundCloud, you will play a key role in shaping the design system and creating innovative solutions for the platform. You will collaborate with various teams including PMs, UXR, and developers to ensure a cohesive user experience. Your responsibilities will include leading the design system, designing aesthetically pleasing and functional solutions, and advocating for user-centered design decisions. You will also work closely with UX researchers and developers to implement these solutions effectively. It also involves contributing to a culture of design excellence and mentoring fellow designers. This role requires a strong visual skillset, understanding of design principles, and the ability to challenge the status quo.
Must have:
  • 5+ years of product design experience.
  • Experience with design systems and scalable UI frameworks.
  • Exceptional visual skills, understanding of design principles.
  • Ability to push back and advocate for design integrity.
  • Comfortable collaborating with various teams.
Good to have:
  • Strong sense of taste and eye for detail.
  • Curious mindset, open to new ideas.
  • Ability to balance speed with craft.
  • Familiarity with Figma and/or Sketch.
  • A relevant design degree or equivalent experience.
Perks:
  • Meaningful, high-impact design challenges.
  • Team that values design and aesthetic excellence.
  • Collaboration with smart colleagues.
  • Competitive salary and benefits.
  • Relocation support and allowances.
  • Creativity and Wellness benefit.
  • Employee Equity Plan.
  • Generous professional development allowance.
  • Flexible vacation and public holiday policy.
  • 16 paid weeks for all parents.
  • Free German courses.
  • Snacks, goodies, and free lunches.

Job Details

SoundCloud empowers artists and fans to connect and share through music. Founded in 2007, SoundCloud is an artist-first platform empowering artists to build and grow their careers by providing them with the most progressive tools, services, and resources. With over 400+ million tracks from 40 million artists, the future of music is SoundCloud.

We are looking for a Senior Product Designer to join our team and play a key role in shaping both our design system and designing innovative solutions. This is an opportunity to work on high-impact projects, ensuring a cohesive and visually compelling user experience across our platform. We value strong visual skills, deep understanding of design principles, and impeccable taste—qualities that are increasingly rare but essential for building world-class products.

As a Senior Product Designer, you will collaborate closely with PMs, UXR, developers and marketing, advocating for high-quality design and pushing back when necessary to maintain standards. You should be open to feedback, thrive on exploring multiple design concepts, and consistently challenge the status quo with creative, outside-the-box thinking.

Key Responsibilities:

  • Lead and contribute to the design system, ensuring consistency, scalability, and excellence in visual design
  • Design solutions that are both aesthetically compelling and functionally effective
  • Work closely with the design team to uphold a high standard of visual quality, ensuring strong typography, color, composition, and hierarchy
  • Advocate for thoughtful, user-centered design decisions by confidently addressing concerns with stakeholders when necessary
  • Work closely with UX researchers and developers to refine and implement solutions effectively
  • Be highly receptive to feedback and iterate rapidly on multiple design directions
  • Drive innovation by questioning the status quo and proposing bold, creative solutions
  • Contribute to a culture of design excellence, mentoring and inspiring fellow designers

Experience and Background:

  • 5+ years of experience in product design, with a strong portfolio showcasing visual excellence and user-centered design
  • Proven experience working on design systems and scalable UI frameworks
  • Exceptional visual skills, a deep understanding of design principles, typography, layout, and composition
  • A strong sense of taste and an eye for detail
  • Ability to push back constructively when necessary and advocate for design integrity
  • Comfortable working alongside PMs, researchers, and developers in a collaborative environment
  • Curious mindset, always open to exploring new ideas, questioning norms, and thinking beyond the obvious
  • Ability to balance speed with craft, knowing when to iterate quickly and when to refine
  • Familiar with tools like Figma and/or Sketch
  • A degree in a relevant field (e.g., Graphic Design, Interaction Design or a related design field or equivalent work experience

Why Join Us?

  • Work on meaningful, high-impact design challenges
  • Join a team that values design deeply and strives for aesthetic excellence
  • Collaborate with smart, driven colleagues who challenge the status quo
  • Competitive salary, benefits, and opportunities for growth

About us:

  • We are a multinational company with offices in the US (New York and Los Angeles), Germany (Berlin), and the UK (London)
  • We provide a flexible work culture that offers the opportunity to collaborate and connect in person at our offices as well as accommodating work from home
  • We are deeply committed to ensuring diversity, equity and inclusion at all levels of our organization and fostering a community where everyone’s voice, perspective and experience is respected and heard.
  • We believe a strong team is made by investing in employees through mentorship, workshops and enrichment opportunities

Benefits:

  • Not located in Berlin? No worries, we offer extensive relocation support including allowances, one way flights, temporary accommodation and, by partnering with Expath, on the ground support on arrival
  • Interested in a gym membership, photography course or book? We have a Creativity and Wellness benefit!
  • Employee Equity Plan
  • Generous professional development allowance
  • Flexible vacation and public holiday policy where you can take up to 35 days of PTO annually
  • 16 paid weeks for all parents (birthing and non-birthing), regardless of gender, to welcome newborns, adopted and foster children
  • We offer free German courses at beginning, intermediate and advanced
  • Various snacks, goodies, and 2 free lunches weekly when at the office

Diversity, Equity and Inclusion at SoundCloud

SoundCloud is for everyone. Diversity and open expression are fundamental to our organization; they help us lead what’s next in music by understanding and empowering our creators and fans, no matter their identity. We acknowledge the challenges in the music industry, and strive to influence an inclusive culture where everyone can contribute respectfully and thrive, especially the historically marginalized communities that many of our creators, fans and SoundClouders identify with. We are dedicated to creating an inclusive environment at SoundCloud for everyone, regardless of gender identity, sexual orientation, race, ethnicity, migration background, national origin, age, disability status, or care-giver status.

At SoundCloud you can find your community or elevate your allyship by joining a Diversity Resource Group. Diversity Resource Groups are employee-organized groups focused on supporting and promoting the interests of a particular underrepresented community in order to build a more inclusive culture at SoundCloud. Anyone can join, whether you share the identity or strive to be an ally.

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