Product Designer, SoundCloud
Ads
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Next-generation music entertainment ecosystem
Open for applications
Next-generation music entertainment ecosystem
501-1000 employees
Open for applications
+ Equity
More information about location
501-1000 employees
Company mission
To empower artists and fans to connect and share through music.
Role
Who you are
- A user-centric design approach balanced with a deep understanding of our business objectives and goals
- 2-5 years of experience in Product Design (preferably with digital advertising and/or B2C platforms)
- Strong communication and presentation skills
- A keen eye for aesthetics and understanding of ad experience best practices
- Experience with user research, A/B testing, and data-driven design
- Proficiency in Figma, FigJam, and Miro for design and prototyping
- Familiarity with frontend/backend technical concepts is a plus
What the job involves
- We’re looking for a Product Designer to join our Ads Team at SoundCloud. This team plays a crucial role in shaping the strategy for ad experiences, balancing business goals, revenue generation, and an engaging user experience for free listeners. We aim to seamlessly integrate ads into the product, keeping free users happy while encouraging conversions to paid subscriptions
- As a Product Designer on this team, you have the power to shape the future of our platform. Your work will directly influence how ads seamlessly integrate into the user experience, making them not only visually compelling but also engaging and effective. By collaborating with engineering, product, and business teams, you’ll drive innovative ad solutions that enhance user satisfaction and fuel the company’s success in the years to come
- Communicate and collaborate: Present and discuss design ideas to cross-functional teams, including the EPD (Engineering, Product, and Design) departments
- Involve engineers and product managers in the creative process through design sprints, workshops, and brainstorming sessions
- Regularly update stakeholders on project progress, achievements, and insights
- Facilitate qualitative and quantitative research to uncover user pain points and new business opportunities
- Conduct competitor analysis and stay ahead of industry trends in ad design and innovation
- Leverage benchmarking to enrich brainstorming and ideation
- Ensure ads are aesthetically aligned with the platform’s design language, making them seamless, discreet, and elegant
- Contribute to defining design system components that are focused on the ad experience
- Constantly refine ad formats, interactions, and layouts for a better user experience
- Leverage KPIs and experimentation to inform and refine design decisions
- Play a key role in designing and optimizing experiment setups, ensuring they effectively validate hypotheses
- Analyze quantitative data, charts, and user behavior metrics to continuously improve designs
- Support parallel UXR research and fake-door tests, enabling a holistic approach to user insights and innovation
- Work closely with engineers to understand technical constraints and follow through on implementation
- Keep design documentation clear and structured for seamless communication with developers and stakeholders
- Be hands-on—prototyping, conducting user interviews, running workshops, creating spreadsheets, and iterating on ideas
- Maintain continuous collaboration with RevOps, Product, Data Science, and other key stakeholders to ensure alignment and drive informed decision-making
Our take
Founded in 2007, SoundCloud recognized the need for an artist-first platform. The company set out with a clear mission: to empower independent artists by providing them with the necessary tools and resources to grow and build their careers.
Today, SoundCloud boasts over 40M artists on its platform, far outpacing Spotify, which has 11M. As a result, SoundCloud is the largest audio discovery platform in a rapidly growing market. According to MIDiA Research, the independent artist market is poised for continued revenue growth in the coming years, further solidifying SoundCloud's place in the industry.
The company plans to scale its audience and expand its services through new offerings, such as the SoundCloud "roster". This tier system is designed to provide artists with significant creative and financial resources, along with market support, rivalling major record labels. While artists retain ownership of their copyrights, they will be represented by SoundCloud, further enhancing the platform's appeal to independent creators.
Kirsty
Company Specialist at Welcome to the Jungle
Insights
3% employee growth in 12 months
Company
Funding (last 2 of 7 rounds)
Feb 2020
$75m
SERIES G
Aug 2017
$170m
SERIES F
Total funding: $466.1m
Company HQ
Mitte, Berlin, BE
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