Product Designer II - Ads R&D

Design user experiences across Spotify’s self-serve advertising platform, contributing to features like ad creation and reporting. Collaborate with cross-functional teams to shape strategy and ship high-impact work.

Responsibilities

• Design user experiences across Spotify’s self-serve advertising platform (Ads Manager).
• Help define and scale a robust design system used across Ads Manager and internal tools.
• Work closely with engineers to map backend systems, APIs, and ML-powered features to front-end interfaces.
• Collaborate with PMs, engineers, data scientists, researchers, and content designers to shape strategy and ship high-impact work.
• Build prototypes to explore technical constraints and communicate product behavior.
• Lead or support design efforts on internal tools used by operational teams.
• Identify design gaps, inconsistencies, or missed system opportunities, and advocate for a more unified and scalable user experience.
• Contribute to a feedback-rich team culture that encourages critique, iteration, and craft excellence.

Requirements

• 4+ years of experience designing complex digital products, ideally in ad tech, ML-driven tools, enterprise SaaS, or large-scale platforms.
• Comfortable working within and across systems, building design patterns that scale.
• Experience working with engineers and familiarity with technical concepts like APIs, data schemas, event flows, and service design.
• Curious and hands-on with AI and machine learning.
• Experience with A/B testing or experimentation frameworks.
• Confident using prototyping tools to explore logic-heavy interactions.
• Thrives in fast-moving, collaborative environments.
• Experience designing advertising, monetization, or creative automation tools (preferred).
• Familiarity with real-time decisioning systems, delivery pipelines, or ML model outputs (preferred).
• Background in operational tools or designing for internal user groups with high workflow complexity (preferred).
• Experience contributing to or maintaining large-scale design systems with developer collaboration (preferred).

Key Skills

• Designing complex digital products
• Building design patterns that scale
• Working with engineers and familiarity with technical concepts
• Curiosity and hands-on with AI and machine learning
• Experience with A/B testing or experimentation frameworks
• Confident using prototyping tools
• Thriving in fast-moving, collaborative environments
• Experience designing advertising, monetization, or creative automation tools
• Familiarity with real-time decisioning systems, delivery pipelines, or ML model outputs
• Background in operational tools or designing for internal user groups with high workflow complexity
• Experience contributing to or maintaining large-scale design systems with developer collaboration

Benefits

• Health insurance
• Six month paid parental leave
• 401(k) retirement plan
• Monthly meal allowance
• 23 paid days off
• 13 paid flexible holidays