Visual Design Lead

Join our global force of 500+ innovators, blending the latest in tech with the greatest in soundtracking, from our Stockholm HQ to offices in London, New York, Los Angeles, Berlin, Oslo, and Seoul. We're an industry leader with a startup mentality. We take what we do seriously, but we don't take ourselves too seriously. Creating and collaborating to transform the sound of streaming, content, and culture. Come join us— and let the world feel your work.

The role

As a Visual Design Lead at Epidemic Sound, you'll be at the forefront of shaping the visual design and user interface of our digital products. You'll lead the visual design direction, defining our design system, motion language, and elevating the user experience across our platforms. This is a role for a hands-on visual designer who is passionate about the interplay of UI, content, and motion to create a seamless and impactful experience for our users

You'll report to VP Design and join our Experience Design team, a talented group of designers with a passion for creating the world's best soundtracking platform for creators. You will collaborate closely with other designers, engineers, product managers, and brand and marketing teams, to ensure a cohesive and impactful end-to-end user journey.

Your key responsibilities include:

Elevate the visual quality of our product by delivering compelling UI design solutions, integrating layout, typography, and motion to enhance user engagemen

Translate complex concepts into intuitive, cohesive, and high-impact user interfaces, using motion, interaction and visual design to guide attention and improve usability.

Lead the development of visual and motion systems to ensure consistency, scalability, and a refined user experience across platforms.

Mentor and support designers across teams, fostering excellence in visual, interaction, and motion design craft.

Collaborate cross-functionally with product, tech, brand and marketing teams to influence and shape the end-to-end experience with a strong point of view on how it should look, feel, and move.

Requirements

A strong portfolio of innovative and emotionally resonant work, demonstrating your leadership in shaping acclaimed digital products and brand experiences.

Proven expertise in translating high-level strategy into compelling art direction, and a track record of developing scalable visual and motion design systems.

In-house, cross-functional experience—proven collaboration with engineering, product, and brand partners.

Mastery of the modern design toolset, with a particular fluency for prototyping, visual, and motion design.

Soft requirements

A true collaborator and natural influencer, with a gift for building consensus and inspiring designer peers, teams and stakeholders around a shared creative vision.

Exceptional storytelling and communication skills, able to articulate the 'why' behind your design decisions to everyone from junior designers to executive leaders.

A deep-seated passion for mentoring, with a genuine desire to elevate the craft, creativity, and confidence of the designers you work with.

A balance of strong creative conviction and an empathetic, humble approach, welcoming diverse perspectives to strengthen your design solutions.

Equal opportunity employer
We believe that bringing people together from different backgrounds, experiences and perspectives makes for a healthy workplace, a more successful business and a better world. We value diversity and encourage everyone to come and soundtrack the world with us.

Application
Ready to make the world feel your work? Please apply, in English, by clicking the link below.

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