Why This Job is Featured on The SaaS Jobs
This Product Designer role stands out in the SaaS ecosystem because it sits at the intersection of self-serve product design and creator-focused tooling. Spotify for Artists functions as a platform layer for analytics, promotion, and workflow management—areas where SaaS products succeed or fail based on clarity, trust, and repeatable task flows. The remit spans both insight surfaces (analytics) and action surfaces (promotion and marketer workflows), which is a useful mix for designers who want to understand how product interfaces drive real outcomes.
From a SaaS career perspective, the position offers exposure to the kinds of problems that recur across subscription products: designing for ongoing engagement, making complex data understandable, and building consistent experiences through a design system. Working alongside product, engineering, research, and data science also builds the cross-functional habits that transfer well to other SaaS environments, especially where product decisions depend on evidence and iteration.
The role is best suited to an early-career designer who wants scoped ownership with structured feedback, and who is comfortable moving between interaction design and visual craft. It will fit someone motivated by systems thinking, documentation, and critique, with an interest in designing tools used by professionals rather than purely consumer entertainment.
The section above is editorial commentary from The SaaS Jobs, provided to help SaaS professionals understand the role in a broader industry context.
Job Description
We’re looking for a Product Designer to join the Music Mission design team. Spotify for Artists is how artists and their teams understand, manage, and grow their presence on Spotify. Our mission is to empower artists with tools that help them reach more fans and make better decisions.
As a designer, you’ll contribute to product experiences that span analytics, promotion, multi-artist marketer workflows, and new creative opportunities for consumers. You’ll learn from senior designers, collaborate across disciplines, and start shaping the future of tools that help millions of artists succeed.
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What You'll Do- Design product experiences that empower artists and their teams to understand, manage, and grow their presence on Spotify
- Partner with senior designers to explore, prototype, and refine solutions for artist-facing features
- Take ownership of well-scoped projects, making design decisions with mentorship and feedback
- Support the evolution of our local design system by extending patterns, auditing existing designs, and documenting best practices
- Collaborate with product managers, engineers, researchers, and data scientists to translate artist needs into clear, usable designs
- Participate in critiques and design reviews to grow your craft, strengthen your problem-solving skills, and build confidence presenting your work
Who You Are- You’re early in your career but excited to grow as a designer, owning larger areas of the artist experience over time
- You have strong interaction and visual design craft, with the ability to translate requirements into clear, usable, and engaging designs
- You’re a collaborator who thrives in cross-functional teams and values mentorship and feedback
- You think in systems and are curious about how design patterns scale across products and platforms
- You’re motivated by artist empathy — curious about the music industry and eager to design tools that make a difference
- You’re adaptable, comfortable with ambiguity, and able to balance independent work with paired design
Where You'll Be- This role is based in New York
- 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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The United States base range for this position is $95,658 - $136,654 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, paid sick leave. These ranges may be modified in the future.
Spotify is an equal opportunity employer. You are welcome at Spotify for who you are, no matter where you come from, what you look like, or what’s playing in your headphones. Our platform is for everyone, and so is our workplace. The more voices we have represented and amplified in our business, the more we will all thrive, contribute, and be forward-thinking! So bring us your personal experience, your perspectives, and your background. It’s in our differences that we will find the power to keep revolutionizing the way the world listens.
At Spotify, we are passionate about inclusivity and making sure our entire recruitment process is accessible to everyone. We have ways to request reasonable accommodations during the interview process and help assist in what you need. If you need accommodations at any stage of the application or interview process, please let us know - we’re here to support you in any way we can.
Spotify transformed music listening forever when we launched in 2008. Our mission is to unlock the potential of human creativity by giving a million creative artists the opportunity to live off their art and billions of fans the chance to enjoy and be passionate about these creators. Everything we do is driven by our love for music and podcasting. Today, we are the world’s most popular audio streaming subscription service.
