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Product Designer (REMOTE)

Product Designer (REMOTE)

Department: Product Design
Employment Type: Full Time
Location: REMOTE US
Compensation: $80,000 - $89,000 / year

Description

We are reimagining the ultimate digital journey for music lovers and record collectors worldwide. This is a pivotal moment: we are streamlining our core experience, refreshing our visual identity, and leaning into the transformative opportunities afforded by AI to help fans discover and manage their collections like never before. As a Product Designer, you wont just be moving pixels; youll be solving real customer problems in a fast-paced, iterative environment. We need someone who balances high-velocity execution with a deep sense of empathy for the collectors journey.

Location

While we are remote we are only hiring within the following areas: OR, WA, CA, CO, TX, IL

Compensation

$80,000 - $89,000 yearly

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.

Key Responsibilities

What Youll Accomplish

  • Elevate UX and Visual Design: Combine Discogs new brand identity with UX best practices to create intuitive, streamlined user flows and modern interfaces that are as visually compelling as they are functional.
  • Responsive design: Translate and optimize design solutions effectively for impact and usability on any screen size.
  • Balance Speed and Quality: Thrive in a fast-paced environment by managing your time effectively, prioritizing high-impact tasks, and delivering polished work without getting stuck in "analysis paralysis."
  • End-to-End Design: From initial discovery and UX research to high-fidelity Figma mockups and interactive prototypes, youll own the design process across web and mobile.
  • Participate in user research: Gather user feedback through usability testing and research, iterating on designs to continuously improve the user experience.
  • Ideate with Impact: Support product squads with rapid wireframing, information architecture, and prototyping to validate ideas quickly.
  • Exercise design thinking: Use 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.
  • Collaborate & Iterate: Work closely with PMs, Engineers, and fellow design team members to ensure technical feasibility and consistency across the holistic product experience. Youll participate in design reviews, showing work "early and often" to incorporate feedback and iterate toward excellence.
  • Champion the Design System: Contribute to and evolve our design system, ensuring a cohesive, modern visual language across the entire ecosystem.
  • User-Centric Advocacy: Conduct usability testing and research to ensure our solutions are truly solving collector pain points while optimizing for performance and accessibility.
  • Solve Real Problems with AI: Identify and design opportunities where AI can simplify complex workflows, personalize discovery, and add tangible value to the record-collecting experience.

Skills, Knowledge and Expertise

What Youll Need

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

Required Skills & Abilities:

  • 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.
  • Commitment to Growth: Embrace the unknown with curiosity: you are eager to hunt for solutions and committed to the continuous growth of your technical and professional skillset.
  • Exceptional Time Management: The ability to juggle multiple workstreams in a fast-moving startup-like environment while meeting deadlines.
  • Technical Mastery: Expert-level proficiency in design systems and Figma, a strong grasp of responsive design principles for any screen size.
  • Human-Centered Mindset: A proven ability to use design thinking to challenge assumptions and advocate for the user.
  • Collaboration and Communication Skills: Be part of a working team with the ability to articulate your ideas and design decisions clearly to stakeholders and lean into a culture of radical candor and continuous improvement in cross-functional teams.
  • AI Fluency: A proactive interest in how AI can be applied to product design to improve design process efficiencies and user outcomes.
  • Accessibility Advocate: Working knowledge of accessibility standards or enthusiasm to learn and implement them.

Education & Experience

Required

  • Bachelors degree (BA/BS) from a four-year college or university, or equivalent work experience.
  • 3+ years related work experience (UX design experience).
  • Expertise: Deep understanding of UX design principles, user-centered design practices, and interaction design.
  • Design Experience: Proven experience as a UX Designer with a strong portfolio showcasing design projects (using Figma).
  • Design Skills: Expertise in crafting user flows, wireframes, prototypes, and high-fidelity mockups showcasing strong fundamental design principles.

Preferred

  • Experience with design systems and atomic design principles.
  • Experience 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).

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.