UX Designer - Shopping & Discography (REMOTE)

Job Description

Who We’re Looking For

We're reimagining our products to be the ultimate journey for music lovers and record collectors worldwide. This is an opportunity to join us at a pivotal moment as we streamline user flows and introduce a refreshed visual identity. As a UX Designer, you'll play a crucial role in bringing this vision to life, crafting an intuitive and engaging experience that delights our users at every step of their record collecting journey. Please include your most recent portfolio for consideration when applying.

Location

This is a remote position. Open to candidates located in OR, WA, CA, CO, TX, IL

Compensation

Starting Base Salary Range: $80,000 - $89,000

Who We Are

We are dedicated to supporting a global community of music fans and collectors who share the value, culture, connection, and joy of record collecting. Fostering the exchange of knowledge, records, and curation, we help people help each other deepen their relationship with music. Leveraging the power of community, we are committed to enabling people to explore artists and their recorded works through the world's definitive music discography, stay informed with record collection and sales history data, get organized with specialized collection management tools, and stay connected to a global community of fellow record collectors and sellers. Providing this essential set of resources, tools, and access, we aim to unleash boundless opportunities for people to dig into the depths of their musical interests, build and fortify their record collections, cultivate and bridge communities, and elevate their connection to music and record collecting.

What You’ll Accomplish

Reasonable accommodations may be made to enable individuals with disabilities to perform the essential functions.

• 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.

Requirements

What You’ll Contribute

Minimum Education and Experience

• 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.

Required Skills & Abilities:

• 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.

Team Specifics

• 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.

Preferred

• 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

What We Provide

• 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

What We Believe In

We're building a world idealized for record collectors, driven by community, and fueled by a shared passion for music. Through culture, information, and innovation, we strive to develop a complete ecosystem of resources to empower music lovers and entrepreneurs everywhere to engage more deeply in the joys and possibilities of record collecting. We foster a collaborative community dedicated to preserving the recording industry's past, present, and unfolding future by cataloging the world's complete, interconnected music discography. Leveraging the power of this dynamic knowledge base, we aim to innovate integrated technologies to empower music fans everywhere to embark on a boundless journey of music discovery and record collecting. We envision this to be the complete collecting journey.

Discogs is an Equal Opportunity Employer.

Applicants needing accommodation to apply should contact us at 503-597-6340

Discogs does not promote job openings through text messaging. If you receive a text message claiming to offer a position at our company, please disregard it as fraudulent. For a list of our actively open positions and to apply, please visit the official Careers page on our website: https://www.discogs.com/about/careers

If you apply for this role, you will be required to upload a resume, cover letter, and fill out a few questions regarding your application. Once submitted, our hiring team will review your application and contact you if you are selected for an interview. Whether you are successful or not, we will store your application and data in our system for a maximum period of one year from the application date in case another role becomes available that you are suitable for. If you have any questions or concerns about us storing this data and/or the period of time, please contact us at legal@discogsinc.com and we will respond to you within 30 days.