UX Lead

| Austin | Remote
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About BeatStars

Since 2008 BeatStars has been the pioneering and go-to online music marketplace to connect millions of recording artists and music producers worldwide. BeatStars is also the leading artist discovery tool for all the major and independent labels. Most recently, BeatStars partnered with Sony Publishing to launch its publishing arm on the platform.


Now, with over 3 million monthly active users, we've paid over $200M to our creator community. We continue to support independent musicians with the tools, community, opportunities, and education they need to earn a living doing what they love.

What You’ll Be Doing

In this rapidly evolving music tech industry, Beatstars has a history of disrupting the status quo, being first in the market, and innovating for music makers. We are seeking an experienced UX manager to lead the charge on this mission. The ideal candidate can execute and strategize while fostering an environment of collaboration and creativity. This role is ideal for someone with an entrepreneurial mindset and real-world experience distilling business value and goals into user experiences and managing a team to build them. Most importantly, you will be integral to helping us build a better platform that music creators love to use.

Responsibilities:

  • Translate product strategy and features into user flows, wireframes, mockups, and prototypes that lead to intuitive user experiences.
  • Facilitate the Product team’s vision by researching, conceiving, sketching, prototyping, and user-testing experiences for digital products.
  • Design and deliver wireframes, user stories, user journeys, and mockups optimized for a wide range of devices and interfaces.
  • Identify design problems and devise elegant solutions.
  • Make strategic design and user-experience decisions related to core, and new, functions and features.
  • Take a user-centered design approach and rapidly test and iterate your designs.
  • Collaborate with other team members and stakeholders.
  • Ask smart questions, take risks, and champion new ideas.
  • Manage UX team members and develop employees' skills


What You’ll Need

  • Three or more years of UX design experience. Preference will be given to candidates who have experience designing complex solutions for complete digital marketplace environments.
  • Expertise in standard UX software such as Sketch, OmniGraffle, Axure, InVision, UXPin, Balsamiq, Figma, and the like is a must. Basic HTML5, CSS3, and JavaScript skills are a plus.
  • Ability to work with the product team to understand detailed requirements and design complete user experiences that meet customer needs and product vision.
  • Extensive experience in using UX design best practices to design solutions, and a deep understanding of mobile-first and responsive design.
  • A solid grasp of user-centered design (UCD), planning and conducting user research, user testing, A/B testing, rapid prototyping, heuristic analysis, usability, and accessibility concerns.
  • Ability to iterate designs and solutions efficiently and intelligently.
  • Ability to clearly and effectively communicate design processes, ideas, and solutions to product and development teams.
  • A clear understanding of the importance of user-centered design and design thinking.
  • Ability to work effectively in a team setting including synthesizing abstract ideas into concrete design implications.
  • Be excited about collaborating and communicating closely with teams and other stakeholders via a distributed model, to regularly deliver design solutions for approval.
  • Be passionate about resolving user pain points through great design.
  • Be open to receiving feedback and constructive criticism.
  • Be passionate about all things UX and other areas of design and innovation. 
  • Research and showcase knowledge of the industry’s latest trends and technologies.
  • Experience managing a team of UX designers and developing their skills.
  • Bonus points for:
    • music/publishing/marketplace industry experience.
    • Experience with music creation tools such as DAWS, sampling, and mixing.


This role might be for you if:

  • You are a team player. You understand that flying solo is a limiting and isolating choice and know that making your team look good works far better than creating a one-man show.
  • You are an expert communication router - being at the center of the information triangle among the market, team, and company, you know how to find the best method and style to communicate thoughts, ideas, and feedback.
  • You lead by influence, core values, and example, through motivating, guiding, and keeping your functional leads focused on the vision and goals.
  • You relate well to people and easily establish good relationships.
  • You respond quickly and appropriately to the needs of others.
  • You have a knack for explaining complicated things simply.
  • You’re level-headed and cool under pressure. When things change, you know how to roll with the punches.
  • You can tolerate ambiguity.
  • You enjoy managing the big picture, as well as the small details.
  • You are an out-the-box thinker when it comes to finding solutions to problems.
  • You will blow us away with your work ethic, your passion, your integrity, your attitude, and your energy!

Benefits

We're a small and growing team working together closely and operating with complete autonomy and freedom. This means you will have a direct impact on any project that you work on and your success will be felt across the company. Some other perks include:


  • 100% paid medical, dental, and vision for employees and generous contribution for dependents - effective 1st day of hire!
  • FSA/HSA
  • 20 PTO days (+5 Days at 4 years tenure) and Routine sick days
  • 10 Company Observed Holidays + 2 Floating Holidays
  • Daily Meditation Session hosted by CEO
  • $250 Remote work reimbursement at hire and $100 annual remote work refresh
  • 8 weeks of parental leave paid at 100%
  • Company sponsored Short Term Disability and Basic Life Insurance
  • Voluntary Benefits (LTD, Accident, Additional Life, and 401k)
  • Flexible work hours
  • $70-month tech reimbursement
  • $100/month Wellness Program through JOON
  • Company observed Self-Care Days (4x per year)
  • Virtual social events and a sense of community (even online)
  • Global Recognition and Anniversary Program
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