Senior User Experience Designer

Are you a visionary in the domain of user-centric design, fueled by the desire to craft immersive journeys that captivate and inspire action? If you're a true believer in the power of Design to transform, Discogs has the perfect opportunity for you. We're in search of a dynamic Senior UX Designer to join our team, someone who is devoted to crafting user experiences that resonate deeply with our passionate community and looking to make an impact.

Location

This is a remote position. While we are a fully remote company we are only hiring from the following locations: OR, CA, CO, TX, IL

Compensation

Starting Base Salary - $105,500

Who We Are

Discogs is the largest crowd-sourced, community-driven database of recorded music information in the world. Every day, millions of people use the Discogs Marketplace to connect, learn about music, and buy and sell vinyl records, CDs, and cassettes. As Discogs continues to grow, we are looking for bright, dedicated, creative, and highly motivated people to help us realize our mission to serve the music fan in everyone. We are relatively small, so individual contributions can have a large impact. High value is placed on quality, critical thinking, and continuous improvement. Our teams work collaboratively but are distributed geographically and open-source tools are important to who we are and how we work. We value the experiences and skills each team member contributes to helping us serve our music community.

Who We’re Looking For

The Senior UX Designer will work closely with our Product and Engineering teams to elevate, evolve and innovate on our core experience in order to provide music lovers with an inclusive experience on Discogs.

What You’ll Accomplish

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

Responsibilities

• Work with Experience Design and Experience Engineering team to maintain and adapt core design standards and flows across Discogs
• Collaborate with Product Managers to create mockups, wireframes, and user flows based on current project requirements
• Collaborate with Product Experience Team to incorporate research findings and industry best practices into designs
• Collaborate with front end engineers to iterate on designs and maintain visual consistency
• Perform usability testing of flow and design
• Create clean and simple user-centered web and mobile views for a high traffic music ecommerce platform that relies on community contributors
• Assist in the production of prototypes, concept sketches, and interaction designs using key tools such as Figma
• Collaborate with our Experience Engineering team to iterate on and adapt designs for web, mobile, and apps
• Participate in Experience Team reviews, sharing, brainstorms, and activities
• Other duties as assigned

Requirements

What You’ll Contribute

• Bachelor's degree (BA/BS) from four-year college or university, or equivalent work experience
• 5+ years related work experience (design experience)
• E-commerce design experience
• Understanding of designing within complex legacy systems
• UI design skills at high fidelity
• Experience with web, mobile and responsive design
• Adept with design tools such as Figma. Knowledge of HTML & CSS
• Experience in user research and usability testing

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

Discogs’ mission is to serve the music fan in everyone. We represent a diverse and inclusive community, and we are committed to serving our community with innovative and creative solutions. We know that innovation happens best when varying perspectives are embraced and integrated. Our global team reflects our global community.

Discogs is an Equal Opportunity Employer.

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

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 [email protected] and we will respond to you within 30 days.