Director of Design

🕒 April 25

🎸 Tennessee – Remote

🎸 Tennessee – Remote

⏰ Full Time

🔴 Lead

👔 Director

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Soundstripe

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51 - 200 employees

Founded 2016

🔌 API

📱 Media

💰 $9M Series B on 2022-08

API • Media

Soundstripe is a company that offers a comprehensive music licensing platform for creators and businesses. The platform provides royalty-free music and sound effects for use in various media projects such as films, podcasts, ads, social media, and broadcasts. Soundstripe makes music licensing easy and hassle-free, offering access to thousands of tracks produced by Grammy-winning musicians. The company emphasizes collaboration with artists to ensure fair compensation and provides tools for seamless integration into video editing software and mobile applications through their API. Soundstripe's services cater to a wide range of creative professionals by allowing them to filter and customize music selections through AI-powered search and music stems.

📋 Description

• As our Director of Design, you’ll be the central design authority at Soundstripe • This is a player-coach role: you’ll own the design vision and do the work • Collaborate closely with the Directors of Product and Engineering to bring products to life, from ideation through execution and launch • Help drive strategy to meet and expand our customer base's needs as we grow Soundstripe • Lead and drive strategically to solve customer problems and build solutions as we expand from B2C to B2B to B2E • Own product design across our web platform and new product surfaces, from concept to shipped pixels • Advocate for UX quality in product and leadership discussions. Be the voice of the customer in the room • Own the aesthetic and emotional identity of the Soundstripe brand in partnership with Marketing. You're the final word on whether something looks and feels like us • Provide creative direction across product and brand/marketing design. You don't need to do all the brand work, but you set the standard • Lead and maintain our design system, including token-based components and Figma-to-code (and vice versa) workflows • Think in systems, not just screens. Design tokens, component architecture, and scalable patterns that let a small team punch way above its weight, especially when paired with AI tooling • Rethink design workflows with AI at the center. From Figma-to-code pipelines and automated/semi-automated asset generation, to using LLMs for UX research synthesis, spec writing, and prototyping.

🎯 Requirements

• Strong product design portfolio: you’ve shipped consumer or SaaS products and can show the thinking behind the result • Experience leading design: you’ve been part of a small company or startup where you were both strategist and executor • Comfort with brand and marketing design, even if product is your primary lane: at our scale, the lines blur • Design systems experience: you’ve built or maintained component libraries and know how to bridge design and engineering • Hands-on experience with: Figma variables, design tokens, and LLM-powered code-generation workflows • Strong communication and follow-through: you surface problems early, keep commitments, and don’t disappear into a design cave • Willingness to push back: you have opinions about what’s right for the user and you’ll defend them in the room, respectfully and directly • AI-native mindset: you’ve already integrated AI into your design process (prototyping, research, asset generation, spec writing, whatever) and you have opinions about where it works and where it doesn’t. This isn’t a "nice to have": it’s core to how we operate • Bonus points if you’ve worked with music, media, or creative tools, or if you’ve worked directly with a technical founder or CTO

🏖️ Benefits

• Autonomy and ownership: your impact will be visible and celebrated • Collaborative, flexible work environment • Remote (US-based), with occasional in-person time in Nashville or other US state(s) for onsites and offsites a few times a year • Small, high-trust team. Low process, high ownership