Why This Job is Featured on The SaaS Jobs
This Senior Product Designer role sits at the intersection of consumer SaaS, platform design, and multi-surface delivery. Core Experience work at Spotify spans mobile, desktop, and partner integrations, which is a defining challenge for mature SaaS products that must feel consistent while adapting to different contexts. The focus on format foundations and end-to-end Fitness journeys also signals product design that is tightly coupled to discovery and engagement loops, not just isolated UI improvements.
From a SaaS career perspective, the role offers sustained practice in designing systems that scale across large user bases and evolving product areas. It emphasises collaboration with product, engineering, research, and data partners, which mirrors how high-performing SaaS organisations make decisions and ship. The remit includes prototyping, shaping strategy, and exploring AI-enabled workflows, building transferable capability in experimentation and modern design operations.
This position best fits a designer who enjoys navigating ambiguity and turning complex product constraints into clear, repeatable experiences. It will suit someone comfortable owning a broad problem space, moving between concept exploration and high-fidelity execution, and staying close to cross-functional decision-making. It also aligns with professionals motivated by consumer subscription products where retention and habit formation matter.
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 design Spotify’s consumer experience—end to end, moment to moment, across every screen, platform, and partner integration. Our mission is to make listening feel effortless, personal, and joyful for billions of users around the world. That means turning complexity into clarity across hundreds of touchpoints—from our mobile and desktop apps to the smart speakers, TVs, cars, and integrations where Spotify shows up every day. If it touches a consumer, we shape it. We bring deep insight into human behavior, design, and technology to craft experiences that feel intuitive, expressive, and unmistakably Spotify.
At Core Experience, we design many of Spotify’s most loved and most frequently used experiences. We help listeners discover, connect with, and build lasting relationships with the creators and content they care about most. Our designers work across a broad range of surfaces and product areas, partnering closely with cross-functional teams to shape experiences that reach hundreds of millions of listeners around the world.
We're looking for a Senior Product Designer to join Format Foundations, a product area focused on Spotify’s core content formats and the creators behind them. The team works across experiences including artists and albums, podcasts, audiobooks, clips, countdown pages, and emerging formats. This role will have an immediate focus on shaping Spotify’s end-to-end Fitness experience while helping define the future of new content experiences on the platform.
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What You'll Do
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Design end-to-end product experiences that help listeners discover, engage with, and return to emerging content formats, including Fitness.
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Create intuitive, visually compelling experiences across mobile-first consumer journeys.
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Collaborate closely with Product Managers, Engineers, Researchers, Data Scientists, and fellow Designers to define opportunities and deliver meaningful outcomes.
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Develop concepts, user flows, prototypes, and polished experiences that influence product strategy and execution.
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Explore how new content formats should be experienced within Spotify and identify opportunities to evolve the product experience.
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Shape experiences that strengthen the connection between listeners, creators, and content.
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Contribute to long-term format innovation initiatives that support Spotify's broader catalog expansion strategy.
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Leverage AI-powered workflows and emerging tools to accelerate design exploration, experimentation, and prototyping.
Who You Are
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You have experience designing high-quality consumer products with a strong focus on user experience, interaction design, and visual craft.
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You know how to create compelling prototypes that communicate ideas, test assumptions, and bring concepts to life.
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You are experienced designing for mobile platforms and understand the nuances of creating exceptional mobile-first experiences.
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You have strong visual design skills and a portfolio that demonstrates attention to detail and craft.
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You are proficient in Figma and comfortable working across the full product design process.
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You are curious about AI-enabled design workflows and are comfortable exploring tools such as Claude and other emerging technologies.
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You have experience collaborating with cross-functional partners across Product, Engineering, Research, and Data.
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You thrive in ambiguous spaces and enjoy helping define new products, experiences, and opportunities.
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You have experience translating brand principles into scalable product experiences.
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You care deeply about creating experiences that help users discover and build deeper relationships with content and creators.
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You are comfortable working with ambiguity and enjoy navigating open-ended challenges, helping teams create clarity and move ideas forward.
Where You'll Be
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This role is based in Stockholm.
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We offer you the flexibility to work where you work best! There will be some in-person meetings, while still allowing flexibility to work from home.
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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.
