Visual Design Lead

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.

As a Visual Design Lead you will be reporting to the Core Domain Design Director and working in partnership with design, marketing and technology, you will be responsible for hands on driving and executing the visual identity and brand experience in our products. This role requires strong expertise in interaction, visual, content and motion design, design systems and storytelling.

How you will make an impact:

- Inspire, generate, develop and implement creative ideas that are strategically-informed, channel agnostic, and deeply integrated between all touch-points and product experiences.

- Understand brand strategy and translate and extend the brand identity system to digital product touch points.

- Demonstrate a deep understanding and appreciation for system thinking and help to build documentation for others to develop on-brand work.

- Lead the definition and creation of flexible, coherent design systems and component libraries.



- Consistently up-level the design and quality of our craft by bringing impactful ideas to the table and seeing the best of them through to fruition with an extreme attention to detail.

- Foster a respectful and collaborative environment. Mentor designers and creatives.

- Proactively identify and solve problems that impact the Epidemic Sound mission.

- Turn human insights into implemented design.

- Highly conceptual thinking in both visual and interaction design and ability to translate concepts into tangible output. We want you to blow us away with your work.



We believe you have:

- Design and creative direction and execution experience, preferably a mix of product and brand-side in-house experience with various companies.

- Portfolio with innovative, impactful and acclaimed work that demonstrates your ability to lead, develop and implement ideas, concepts and designs that resonate culturally and influence business results.

- Strategic and Systems based thinking - your work is built upon insights and systems, not simply creative whims.

- Collaborative in nature, both within the department and beyond.

- Experience working toward solutions across various media. Flexibility and dependability.

- Great communication and decision-making skills.

- Empathy for the customer, and empathy for individuals in the team.



Lastly, you have an online portfolio or PDF that you can’t wait to share with us!
Please make sure you share it with us when applying.

Curious about our music? Find our music on Spotify here → https://open.spotify.com/user/... (https://open.spotify.com/user/epidemicsound)

We have lots of fun soundtracking the world and our annual Spring Bash (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NgnVp17IvAg) is an event that captures this perfectly. Take a look at our most recent one, a virtual celebration!



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.