Spotify
Advertising
ProductDesigner-Advertising
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“Product Designer - Advertising at Spotify. Skills: Product Design, User Experience Design, B2B Digital Products, Design Systems, AI. Design end-to-end user experiences across Spotify's self-serve advertising platform (Ads Manager). Contribute to features like ad creation, targeting, reporting, optimization, and measurement”
What You'll Achieve.
Scale the user experience for hundreds of millions of fans and hundreds of thousands of advertisers; Simplify complex systems; Build trust with advertisers; Drive scalable product growth; Reduce manual processes; Improve the efficiency and reliability of internal workflows
Industry & Context.
Solving complex problems; Navigating ambiguous, technical domains; Bring structure and curiosity to problems where there isn't always a clear path forward
What They're Looking For.
Must Have
Experience designing complex, data-intensive B2B digital products, Ownership of design quality across your squad, Ability to manage priorities effectively when working across multiple features or workstreams, Visual design foundation, Ability to connect design decisions to business goals and customer needs, Ability to advocate for design decisions clearly with stakeholders, Curiosity about AI, Comfort with ambiguity, Ability to bring structure and curiosity to problems where there isn't always a clear path forward, Actively seek feedback on your work and thinking, Give thoughtful critique in return, Foster inclusive collaboration
Nice to Have
Experience designing advertising, monetization, or creative automation tools, Background in operational tooling or designing for internal users with complex, high-volume workflows, Experience contributing to or maintaining large-scale design systems
What You'll Do.
Design end-to-end user experiences across Spotify's self-serve advertising platform (Ads Manager)
Contribute to features like ad creation
Work within and contribute to a shared design system
Collaborate with engineers to translate backend systems
and ML-powered features into intuitive and performant interfaces
and content designers to shape product direction
advocate for user needs
and influence team roadmap
Build prototypes using real data and motion
Work alongside researchers and data scientists to identify the right questions to answer
and use insights to deepen team's understanding of user problems
Support design efforts on internal tools used by operational teams
Contribute to a feedback-rich team culture
How You'll Work.
Team & Collaboration
Collaborate with engineers; Partner with PMs, engineers, data scientists, researchers, and content designers; Work alongside researchers and data scientists; Foster inclusive collaboration
Communication Scope
Advocate for design decisions clearly with stakeholders
Process & Methodology
Manage priorities effectively when working across multiple features or workstreams
Full Job Description
## Description Our mission on the Advertising Product & Technology team is to build a next generation advertising platform that aligns with our unique value proposition for audio and video. We work to scale the user experience for hundreds of millions of fans and hundreds of thousands of advertisers. This scale brings unique challenges as well as tremendous opportunities for our artists and creators. Spotify's mission is to unlock the potential of human creativity — giving a million artists the opportunity to live off their art, and billions of fans the chance to be inspired by it. Spotify Advertising supports this mission by helping brands connect with listeners through meaningful, effective ad experiences. This is a pivotal moment for Spotify Advertising. As we scale globally and evolve into a performance-focused, AI-powered platform, design plays a central role in simplifying complex systems, building trust with advertisers, and driving scalable product growth. Our long-term vision is an intuitive platform embedded in advertiser workflows, powered by automation, measurement, and operational excellence. We're looking for a mid-level product designer to join our Advertising R&D team. You'll own design quality and cohesion across a set of features in Spotify's advertiser-facing tools, working on high-priority areas including campaign creation, audience targeting, reporting, optimization, creative tooling, measurement, and internal platforms. If you enjoy solving complex problems alongside cross-functional partners and are comfortable navigating ambiguous, technical domains (including AI, automation, and experimentation), we'd love to hear from you. ## What You'll Do Design end-to-end user experiences across Spotify's self-serve advertising platform (Ads Manager), contributing to features like ad creation, targeting, reporting, optimization, and measurement. Work within and contribute to a shared design system used across Ads Manager and internal tools, with attent
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