Spotify

Product Designer - Advertising

Spotify$119K — $170K *
Consumer Technology
Less than 5 years of experience
Job Overview by Ladders

Qualifications

  • 3-5 years of experience designing complex B2B digital products, with focus on quality over quantity of experience.
  • Strong visual design skills with attention to detail for crafting excellent designs.
  • Ability to connect design decisions to business objectives and advocate them with stakeholders.
  • Curiosity about AI applications in design processes and product features.
  • Comfortable navigating ambiguity and structuring solutions creatively.
  • Actively seeks and provides constructive feedback, valuing collaboration and diverse perspectives.
  • Experience in designing advertising, monetization, or creative automation tools is a plus.

Responsibilities

  • Design end-to-end user experiences for Spotify's Ads Manager, focused on features such as ad creation and reporting.
  • Contribute to a shared design system, ensuring component reusability and visual consistency across tools.
  • Collaborate with engineers to create intuitive interfaces from backend systems and ML features.
  • Partner with multifaceted teams to shape product direction and influence the roadmap based on user advocacy.
  • Build prototypes that validate user interaction models using real data in a dynamic environment.
  • Work with researchers to identify user problems and utilize insights to deepen product understanding.
  • Support design efforts for internal tools, aiming to enhance operational efficiency.

Benefits

  • Health insurance for employee well-being.
  • Six month paid parental leave to support family needs.
  • 401(k) retirement plan for future financial security.
  • Monthly meal allowance to facilitate daily nourishment.
  • 23 paid days off for rest and personal time.
  • 13 paid flexible holidays for additional work-life balance.
Full Job Description
We\'re looking for a mid-level product designer to join our Advertising R&D team. You\'ll own design quality and cohesion across a set of features in Spotify\'s advertiser-facing tools, working on high-priority areas including campaign creation, audience targeting, reporting, optimization, creative tooling, measurement, and internal platforms. If you enjoy solving complex problems alongside cross-functional partners and are comfortable navigating ambiguous, technical domains (including AI, automation, and experimentation), we\'d love to hear from you.

What You\'ll Do

  • Design end-to-end user experiences across Spotify\'s self-serve advertising platform (Ads Manager), contributing to features like ad creation, targeting, reporting, optimization, and measurement.
  • Work within and contribute to a shared design system used across Ads Manager and internal tools, with attention to component reusability, accessibility, and visual consistency.
  • Collaborate with engineers to translate backend systems, APIs, and ML-powered features into interfaces that are intuitive and performant.
  • Partner with PMs, engineers, data scientists, researchers, and content designers to shape product direction, advocate for user needs, and help influence your team\'s roadmap.
  • Build prototypes using real data and motion where relevant to explore technical constraints, validate interaction models, and communicate product behavior in dynamic, data-driven environments.
  • Work alongside researchers and data scientists to identify the right questions to answer, and use insights to deepen your team\'s understanding of user problems.
  • Support design efforts on internal tools used by operational teams, helping reduce manual processes and improve the efficiency and reliability of internal workflows.
  • Contribute to a feedback-rich team culture that values critique, iteration, and craft excellence.


Who You Are

  • You have experience designing complex, data-intensive B2B digital products. We typically look for around 3+ years of experience, though we value the depth and quality of your work over years alone.
  • You take ownership of design quality across your squad and can manage priorities effectively when working across multiple features or workstreams.
  • You have a strong visual design foundation and care about the details that elevate work from functional to excellent.
  • You connect design decisions to business goals and customer needs, and can advocate for those decisions clearly with stakeholders.
  • You\'re curious about AI, whether that\'s using AI tools in your design workflow, designing AI-powered features, or both.
  • You\'re comfortable with ambiguity and bring structure and curiosity to problems where there isn\'t always a clear path forward.
  • You actively seek feedback on your work and thinking, and give thoughtful critique in return.
  • You foster inclusive collaboration: you proactively bring others in and hold space for different perspectives.
  • Nice to have: Experience designing advertising, monetization, or creative automation tools.
  • Nice to have: Background in operational tooling or designing for internal users with complex, high-volume workflows.
  • Nice to have: Experience contributing to or maintaining large-scale design systems.


Where You\'ll Be

  • We offer you the flexibility to work where you work best! For this role, it can be within the North America region in which we have a work location.
  • This team collaborates across the Eastern time zone


The United States base range for this position is $119,424.00 - 170,606.00, plus equity. The benefits available for this position include health insurance, six month paid parental leave, 401(k) retirement plan, monthly meal allowance, 23 paid days off, 13 paid flexible holidays. This range encompasses multiple levels. Leveling is determined during the interview process. Placement in a level depends on relevant work history and interview performance. These ranges may be modified in the future.

About Spotify

Spotify is a Swedish audio streaming and media services provider, launched in October 2008. The platform is owned by Spotify AB, a publicly traded company on the New York Stock Exchange since April 2018. Spotify's primary business is providing an audio streaming platform, with the company claiming that it had 345 million active monthly users and 155 million paying subscribers as of December 2020. Unlike physical or download sales, which pay artists a fixed price per song or album sold, Spotify pays royalties based on the number of artist streams as a proportion of total songs streamed on the service. Spotify distributes approximately 70% of its total revenue to rights holders, who then pay artists based on their individual agreements. Spotify has faced criticism from artists and producers including Taylor Swift and Thom Yorke, who have argued that it does not fairly compensate musicians. Spotify has also faced criticism from artists and producers including Taylor Swift and Thom Yorke, who have argued that it does not fairly compensate musicians.
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