Experience Design Director

At Epidemic Sound we are reinventing the music industry. Our carefully curated catalog, with over 35,000 tracks, is tailored for storytellers, streaming services, and in-store soundtracks. Countless clients around the world, from broadcasters, production companies, DSPs, and YouTubers rely on our tracks to help them tell their stories. Epidemic Sound’s music is heard in hundreds of millions of online videos daily, across millions of playlist streams, and in thousands of in-store locations. Headquartered in Stockholm, we’re spread across offices in New York City, Los Angeles, Seoul, Hamburg, and Amsterdam. We’re growing fast, have lots of fun, and are taking the music industry with us.

On a mission to soundtrack the world, we are constantly increasing and improving our portfolio of global products where the common denominator is our music. Growing our organization we are now looking for an Experience Design Director to lead product design across the domain’s multiple teams, driving the vision and strategic direction jointly with tech- and product director counterparts. Reporting to VP Experience Design, the position is located at our HQ in Stockholm.

How you will make an impact

As an Experience Design Director, your work will span across several domains, mainly focusing on the Music and Partnership. You will drive impact in collaboration with a range of different stakeholders across product teams, the design team, tech, product, and other departments. Ultimately responsible for the qualitative experiential output of the domain’s teams, you drive results, quality, and vision in collaboration with tech- and product director counterparts and leads. As a key part of design leadership at the company, you are expected to drive alignment and change, unlocking senior staff and teams to produce world-class product experiences globally.

More specifically, you will:

- Lead the product domains jointly with product/tech director counterparts

- Take part in the Design Leadership team

- Manage and support Experience Design staff across multiple teams in your domain

- Nurture, hire and grow the teams

- Develop the process, quality, and height of executed innovation in collaboration with leadership counterparts

- Be accountable for the quality of the Design within the domain

- Oversee and support individual career development

- Coach and support day-to-day design quality and teamwork

- Sync and align across product areas



Who you are

- A seasoned design leader for innovation with a track record of mentoring designers and building teams

- Passionate about improving the lives of our users

- A clear communicator who is comfortable representing product design vision, process, and innovation publicly

- A seasoned product or experience designer with several years of experience from larger or more complex product organizations used to agile / hypothesis-driven experience design work

- An inspiring, strategic collaborator with a track record or passion to grow leadership in others



We believe you have:

- 8+ years of experience as a senior-level designer with reports, or equivalent relevant experience

- Experience in how to successfully collaborate with stakeholders and leadership, managing expectations and driving successful outcomes on behalf of our users

- Extensive supervisory experience (including leadership, team-building, and delegation) leading and managing a creative team

- Experience in managing end-to-end product delivery

- Experience from agile production models and design sprint work

- Experience from working with, or developing design systems

- Technical understanding programming, animation, or prototyping

- Fluency in written and spoken English



Curious to learn more about who we are and what we do? Check out our brand new "About us" page → https://www.epidemicsound.com/about-us/


Application

Do you want to be a part of our fantastic team? Please apply, in English, by clicking the link below.

We believe that bringing people together from different backgrounds, experiences and perspectives makes for a healthy workplace, a more successful business and a better world. We value diversity and encourage everyone to come and soundtrack the world with us.