As a Lead Product Designer, you will play a crucial role in setting the creative bar for experience quality across a product area that spans several teams, and for the outcomes that experience creates for our customers. Your role will be to set direction, principles, patterns and quality thresholds, and encode that bar so that both people and models can meet it. Your own work is the proof, and it shows the highest creative judgment and taste.
You will work in the build loop with engineering, prototyping in code and taking the UI through to live product. The role moves between two modes: embedded on high-impact initiatives, and setting direction and standards across teams. You will partner with design and product leadership on product direction and evolve the design process for AI-native work.
Your key responsibilities includeLead high-impact, ambiguous initiatives from idea to live product, working in the build loop with engineering.
Stay close to users, basing decisions on research, live product and data, and following up on what changed after launch.
Prototype in code and take the user interface through to live product.
Raise the bar with designers, product managers and engineers through pairing, critique and review of live product.
Evolve the design system as infrastructure for both people and AI agents, covering behaviour as well as components.
Encode how Epidemic Sound designs AI-driven products, including trust, control and evaluation, so others can apply it.
Exceptional design craft, with a high bar for usability, taste and coherence across the product.
Authority with patterns, with the ability to define how they are applied, adapted or replaced across the organisation.
Proven ability to synthesise research, analytics, market and business strategy into design direction with organisational impact.
Fluency in the build loop, with the ability to set the standard for how design and engineering collaborate in-product, without file handoff.
A track record of orchestrating AI rather than prompting it, knowing when its output is good enough and when not to generate at all.
It would also be music to our ears if you have experience holding the cross-team view across multiple design teams, and a track record of connecting design decisions to user outcomes, business metrics, growth targets, and long-term product strategy.
Equal opportunity employer
We believe that bringing people together from different backgrounds, experiences and perspectives makes for a healthy workplace, a more successful business and a better world. We value diversity and encourage everyone to come and soundtrack the world with us.
Application
Ready to make the world feel your work? Please apply, in English.
Skills Required
- Exceptional product design craft, usability judgment, taste, and coherence across the product
- Ability to define, apply, adapt, and replace design patterns across the organization
- Proven ability to synthesize research, analytics, market strategy, and business strategy into design direction with organizational impact
- Fluency in the product build loop and ability to collaborate with engineering in-product without file handoff
- Experience orchestrating AI, evaluating its output, and determining when not to generate
- Experience holding a cross-team view across multiple design teams and connecting design decisions to user outcomes, business metrics, growth targets, and long-term product strategy
What We Do
Epidemic Sound has transformed the soundtracking experience for global brands and professional creators, with an expansive catalog of world-class music and sound effects that's seen and heard over 2.5 billion times a day around the globe. Providing a direct license model that comes with all rights included and next-generation soundtracking tools, Epidemic Sound empowers creators to unlock more feeling in everything they create and share their stories with the world. Epidemic Sound continuously enriches its world-class catalog of music by teaming up with artists, composers, and producers to create tracks spanning all genres, while supporting them financially and creatively.
Why Work With Us
Join our global force of 500+ innovators, blending the latest in tech with the greatest in soundtracking, from our offices in Stockholm, NYC and LA. We’re an industry leader with a startup mentality. We take what we do seriously, but we don’t take ourselves too seriously. Come join us and the world will feel your work.
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