About DistroKid

DistroKid is a service for musicians that puts music into online stores & streaming services like Spotify, iTunes, Amazon, Tidal, TikTok, YouTube, and more. We are looking for an experienced Product Designer to join our team as a full-time employee, as a member of our Design team. https://distrokid.com/ 

DistroKid’s mission is to help every artist that records music be more prolific. 

You will work on creating tools and services for the million-plus artists worldwide who use DistroKid. These might be tools to help them collaborate with other artists, tools to help them promote their music, connect with their fans, or sometimes silly things that give artists a moment of delight. 

Your team

You will be working closely with a product manager, and 3-4 engineers plus 1-2 QA teammates. 

You will report to the Director of Product and have regular access to senior management to discuss, iterate, and explore product ideas/prototypes in a highly collaborative environment.

Example Problems you would have worked on recently...

• Help DistroKid create an unlimited music video distribution platform

• Instagram and Youtube are powerful tools for artists to connect to their fans, but artists are not always equipped to create compelling visual content to reach their fans on these platforms to promote their music. 

• Artists and labels want to meet each other.

• Artists need a simple way to share their music, but their fans are all on different streaming platforms. Creating these link-filled pages or customizing Instagram posts every time with individual links is no fun.

• Help launch and support DistroKid’s much anticipated mobile app.

Some of the products you will work on will already have a defined and validated problem and vetted solution space, waiting for you and your partner PM to mold into a shippable product. 

Other times, you will have a hand in shaping and defining brand new experiences. As a member of the DistroKid product team, we will always be learning from customer interviews, metric analysis, and figuring out new ways we can achieve the company mission of helping every artist that records music, be more prolific. As a leading member of this team, you will help improve the way artists around the world record, distribute, and promote their music. 

Required Experience:

• 7+ years professional experience

• Experience working on consumer-facing products at scale

Skills:

• Your portfolio rocks! It has case studies of how you drive design through user empathy and insight, with examples of consumer-facing web or mobile applications that showcase your great visual taste and sensibilities 

• You write great copy and understand that copywriting is design

• Can show delight and joy and humor in your designs. 

• Experience designing for viral hooks and viral engagement 

Qualities:

• Highly Collaborative

• Supportive

• Empathetic

• Humble; this is an ego-free workplace