Senior Product Designer
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The Smule mission is to connect people all over the world through the joy of making music at massive social scale. Music is much more than just listening… It's about creating, sharing, discovering, participating, and connecting with people. It is a social network with the power to break down barriers, touch souls and bring people together from all over the world.
Smule today has 40 million monthly active users and is still growing at a fast pace. We’re looking for a seasoned product designer to help drive our vision for connecting and growing this expanding network of people.
Role / Responsibilities
- Champion a user centric design process that focuses on consistently delivering high quality designs
- Create deliverables such as process flows, wireframes, mockups and functional prototypes to effectively communicate design strategies and detailed interaction behaviors
- Work closely with our product management and engineering teams to form a strategy for improving our user experience driven by both qualitative and quantitative analysis
- Collaborate with executive leadership on how design strategy translates into tactical initiatives
- Maintain a pulse on the industry by regularly conducting a competitive analysis
- Push our creative boundaries without sacrificing business objectives
Requirements
- 5+ years product design experience
- 3+ years designing mobile experiences
- Excellent verbal and communication skills. Ability to articulate design decisions through storytelling
- Expert knowledge of best practice UI and UX patterns for iOS, Android and web applications
- Ability to quickly grasp goals and requirements from light specifications
- Relentless attention to detail
The Ideal Candidate
- Is a mobile first design expert with proven track record of execution
- Is passionate about connecting the world through music
- Proactively dives into problems and does not settle for easy answers
- Has experience navigating ambiguity and change with enthusiasm and a positive attitude
- Can communicate how design delivers value in a simple, effective manner
- Is comfortable facilitating the decision making process in a highly iterative environment
- Can play more than 4 musical instruments simultaneously
Preferred
- Experience designing and integrating monetization strategies (subscription based a plus)
- Experience in usability evaluation and user research
- Technical expertise (CSS, HTML, Javascript)
- Previous experience mentoring/managing designers
- Experience working on a distributed team in a remote environment
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