VP, Engineering
$210,000–$245,000 year
HybridSan Francisco, California, United States
Job Summary
Define multi-platform UX strategy spanning iOS, Android, and web while establishing unified design systems that scale across mobile and desktop. Deliver high-quality prototypes for critical surfaces including onboarding, distribution tools, and artist monetization features, collaborating directly with engineers to ensure technical feasibility. Conduct user interviews, usability tests, and concept evaluations to synthesize insights into product opportunities and roadmap guidance for artists and label partners. Manage and mentor a small UX/UI design team, implementing design ops practices to streamline workflows and reduce design debt. Partner with Product, Engineering, Marketing, and Data Science to shape requirements and prioritize releases, ensuring intuitive, artist-first experiences that drive growth and retention. This role requires alternating between high-level strategy and pixel-level detail, with four days in-office and one day remote in San Francisco.
Required Qualifications
- Director of UX
- Lead the design vision
- Customer research
- End-to-end product experience
- iOS
- Android
- Web
- Manage a team of UX/UI designers
- True player/coach
- Actively designs
- Prototypes
- Conducts research
- Extensive experience designing for mobile apps
- Responsive web products
- Bringing consistency, craft, and clarity across platforms
- Comfortable alternating between high-level UX strategy
- Pixel-level detail
- Customer discovery
- Partner with Product
- Partner with Engineering
- Partner with Marketing
- Partner with Data Science
- Deliver intuitive, artist-first experiences
- Drive growth
- Drive retention
- Drive label partner success
- Based in San Francisco
- Four days in-office
- One day remote
- 8+ years of UX/UI or product design experience
- Consumer-facing mobile apps
- iOS + Android
- Responsive web products
- 3+ years managing designers
- Leading design teams
- Strong portfolio showing high-quality cross-platform design work
- Flows
- Visual systems
- Interaction patterns
- Demonstrated experience as a hands-on designer
- Player/coach
- Expertise in user research
- Usability testing
- Customer discovery
- Insight synthesis
- Proficiency with Figma
- Prototyping tools
- Mobile design systems
- Responsive layout frameworks
- Exceptional communication
- Storytelling capabilities
Desired Qualifications
- Experience in creator platforms
- Music tech
- Digital media
- Marketplace ecosystems
- Familiarity with experimentation/analytics systems
- A/B testing
- Funnels
- Behavioral data
- History of partnering deeply with engineering teams
- Ship mobile and web features at scale
- Ability to coach designers across mobile interaction patterns
- Responsive best practices
- UX writing
- Visual craft
- Systems thinking
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