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Senior Visual Designer, Design Systems

Hybrid
Full-time
Senior or above
UK
Posted on November 25, 2025

About the role

💼 What you will do

• Shape the future of Encore—Spotify's design system powering design tools and accessibility efforts. • Bring ideas to life with excellent visual design and find practical ways to improve designer workflows. • Work in a cross-functional team with engineers, designers, content designers, staff typographer, producers, and product managers. • Build and maintain foundational building blocks of Spotify's digital applications. • Set new standards for visual craft and execution across the product. • Proactively explore and implement AI-driven solutions to create desirable design outputs. • Partner with product designers company-wide to develop and improve styles and patterns. • Build scalable work that flexes across various audiences, devices, platforms, and form factors from phones to game consoles, connected fridges, and cars. • Empower 100+ globally distributed designers by providing resources and clarity around design and accessibility best practices.

📋 Job Requirements

• Demonstrate exceptional visual design skills with keen eye for craft, clarity, and consistency. • Bring innovation to interaction, spacing, and visual storytelling. • Embrace AI and new technologies with experience building workflow automations and creative tooling. • Work comfortably within and contribute to large design systems. • Have experience working in-house for consumer-facing digital product companies. • Value inclusive design and accessibility without compromising aesthetics. • Question the status quo and strive for continuous improvement. • Provide an online portfolio or PDF for review.

🌟 Nice-to-have

• Experience with design systems ownership and direct contribution. • Proven track record working across multiple platforms and form factors. • Advanced understanding of AI integration in design workflows. • Background in building design tooling and automation solutions. • Experience empowering large distributed design teams.

🎯 Responsibilities

• Take full ownership of work and drive personal development autonomously. • Care for every detail throughout the entire design process. • Develop and maintain design system components and patterns. • Collaborate with product designers to ensure design consistency across platforms. • Input the right context to AI tools to create optimal design outputs. • Provide guidance on Spotify's design and accessibility best practices. • Lead by example with thoughtful, high-quality design work.

About Spotify

😃 What Spotify offers

• Flexible hybrid work environment with option to work from home. • Extensive learning opportunities through dedicated GreenHouse team. • Flexible share incentives to choose how you share in company success. • Six months global parental leave for all new parents. • All The Feels employee assistance program and self-care hub. • Flexible public holidays to swap days off according to values and beliefs. • Equal opportunity employer committed to inclusivity and accessibility. • Support for reasonable accommodations during recruitment process.

💖 What makes Spotify unique

Spotify transformed music listening forever when launched in 2008. The mission is to unlock the potential of human creativity by giving a million creative artists the opportunity to live off their art and billions of fans the chance to enjoy and be passionate about these creators. Today, Spotify is the world's most popular audio streaming subscription service, driven by love for music and podcasting.

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