Product Designer, Ads

Summary

Join SoundCloud's Ads Team as a Product Designer and shape the future of our platform. You will play a crucial role in seamlessly integrating ads into the user experience, balancing business goals with user engagement. Collaborate with engineering, product, and business teams to drive innovative ad solutions. Your work will directly influence how ads are perceived and experienced by our users. This role requires a user-centric design approach, strong communication skills, and experience with user research and data-driven design. SoundCloud offers a flexible work culture and various benefits.

Requirements

• 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

Responsibilities

• Communicate & 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
• User-Centered Design & Research
• 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
• Visual & Interaction Design
• 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
• Work closely with the design team to uphold a high standard of visual quality , ensuring strong typography, colour, composition, and hierarchy
• Data-Driven & Experimentation Mindset
• 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
• Highly Collaborative & Hands-On
• 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

Preferred Qualifications

Familiarity with frontend/backend technical concepts is a plus

Benefits

• Not located in Berlin? No worries, we offer extensive relocation support including allowances, one way flights, temporary accommodation and, by partnering with Expath, on the ground support on arrival
• Interested in a gym membership, photography course or book? We have a Creativity and Wellness benefit!
• Employee Equity Plan
• Generous professional development allowance
• Flexible vacation and public holiday policy where you can take up to 35 days of PTO annually
• We offer free German courses at beginning, intermediate and advanced
• Various snacks, goodies, and 2 free lunches weekly when at the office