User Experience Designer - Shopping & Discography

Summary

Join Discogs as a UX Designer and help reimagine our products for music lovers and record collectors worldwide. You will play a crucial role in creating an intuitive and engaging user experience. This is a remote position open to candidates in OR, WA, CA, CO, TX, and IL. The starting salary range is $80,000-$89,000. You will design and refine user experiences, ideate UX solutions, develop UX design deliverables, and collaborate with cross-functional teams. You will also participate in user research and optimize for performance and accessibility.

Requirements

• Bachelor’s degree (BA/BS) from four-year college or university, or equivalent work experience
• 3+ years related work experience (design experience)
• UX Expertise: Deep understanding of UX principles, user-centered design practices, and interaction design
• Design Experience: Proven experience as an UX Designer with a strong portfolio showcasing design projects (using Figma)
• Design Skills: Expertise in crafting user flows, wireframes, prototypes, and high-fidelity mockups
• Collaboration and Communication: Excellent communication and collaboration skills to work effectively with cross-functional teams
• Accountability: Deliver projects on time and in-scope, manage multiple projects, and prioritize tasks effectively
• Attention to Detail: Strong attention to detail and a passion for designing beautiful, modern, and user-friendly experiences
• Strong foundational design skills: Demonstrate sound decision making regarding typography, color, scale and proportion, form and shape, visual hierarchy, and overall composition that reflect strong visual communication and effective problem-solving
• Accessibility Advocate: Working knowledge of accessibility standards or enthusiasm to learn and implement them
• Design Tools: Demonstrating strong working knowledge of Figma and aptitude to expand skillset
• Knowledge of music discographies to improve product information architecture for discovery: Design interfaces for music discography pages, ensuring effortless navigation across search, product pages, and user flows
• Optimize UGC content management for enhanced contributions: Refine the user interface and workflows for music data contributions, improving information architecture and categorization to streamline database growth
• Understand the user needs of music buyers and record collectors: Conduct in-depth research to understand the unique needs of diverse buyers ranging from music superfans to hardcore record collectors
• Elevate the shopping journey through modern UX principles: Implement streamlined information displays, personalized recommendations, advanced search and filtering, and strategic merchandising to create a best-in-class shopping experience
• Craft a visually compelling and brand-aligned interface: Apply Discogs' updated brand identity and contemporary UX design trends to modernize the discography and shopping experience, ensuring a visually engaging and cohesive user journey

Responsibilities

• Design and refine user experiences: Create intuitive, engaging, and user-friendly experiences that streamline user flows and adhere to UX best practices
• Ideate UX solutions with impact and efficiency: Support product squads with UX research, wireframing, rapid prototyping, and information architecture exercises to support the design process, leading to the development of impactful UX solutions that solve user problems
• Develop UX design deliverables: Produce user flows, wireframes, high-fidelity mockups, and interactive prototypes using Figma
• Collaborate effectively: Work closely with product managers, developers, design leadership, and the design team to ensure a cohesive experience across platforms (web and mobile)
• Design Review: Engage in regular presentations and design reviews with design and product leadership throughout the design process, showing work early and often, and incorporating feedback into further design revisions until handoff
• Participate in user research: Gather user feedback through usability testing and research, iterating on designs to continuously improve the user experience
• Optimize for performance and accessibility: Create user interfaces that are visually appealing, accessible, and optimized for performance across all platforms
• Collaborate to maintain and enhance the design system: Contribute to and maintain the design system, ensuring consistency across the entire Discogs ecosystem
• Exercise design thinking: Exercise a human-centered approach to problem-solving and innovation, understanding the needs of users, challenging assumptions, and creating innovative solutions through iterative processes including prototyping and testing
• Champion design excellence: Strive to improve Discogs’ user experience in both function and form, making a commitment to continuous improvement, and ensuring that every interaction contributes to a seamless and valuable user journey while advocating for diversity and inclusion
• Elevate Discogs visual design: Incorporate Discogs' new brand identity and the latest UX design trends to create a visually appealing and modern interface
• Responsive design: translate and optimize design solutions effectively for impact and usability any screen size

Preferred Qualifications

• Experience with design systems and atomic design principles in design for e-commerce and/or inventory systems, cataloging, dashboards, collecting and/or music platforms
• Familiarity with interaction design
• Basic knowledge of front-end development (HTML/CSS)
• Passion for music and knowledge of record collecting

Benefits

• Competitive compensation: salary, plus performance-related bonus program
• 401(k) with employer match
• 100% company-paid medical and dental insurance benefits for you and your dependents
• 4 weeks paid vacation, increasing based on tenure
• 18 weeks paid leave for birth moms
• 8 weeks paid parental leave, including for adoption
• Monthly wellness allowance
• Annual professional and personal development allowance
• Work from home office set-up and expense allowances
• Flexible work location opportunities
• Employer matching toward charitable contributions