Senior UX Designer

At Sonos we want to create the ultimate listening experience for our customers and know that it starts by listening to each other. As part of the Sonos team, you’ll collaborate with people of all styles, skill sets, and backgrounds to realize our vision while fostering a community where everyone feels included and empowered to do the best work of their lives.

Sonos Professional is looking for a talented UX designer to build new experiences that help our listeners create professional systems. You’ll do so on a range of Sonos app experiences at the intersection of software and hardware. You’ll be deeply involved in making setup, configuration and the daily experience for every Sonos installer, business owner and listener easier, more delightful, and rich. You’ll use your full range of skills from product design, interaction design, and visual design. You’ll do this with a growing team of talented designers and researchers. 

Professional is a new focus for Sonos with tremendous opportunity for the right candidate to grow, innovate and deliver compelling new experiences.

This role can be done from home

Building the world’s leading sound experience starts with the experience we provide for our people. That’s why we’ve been distributed from the start: initially between offices in Boston & Santa Barbara, and now with additional offices in Seattle, San Francisco & Paris. This role can be done from anywhere in the United States- any of our offices, or remotely from home. It’s about impact, not location.

What You’ll Do

• Work collaboratively with designers, product managers, and developers to define and build new software experiences tied to our professional hardware products. 
• Represent the user in everything we build. Participate in primary and secondary research to understand the context of your work and use this context as the foundation for our design.
• Ideate, create, and refine workflows in all areas of the professional experience to make our products delightful to use.
• Create design specifications aimed at defining product statefulness, behaviors, interactions, feedback and more. 
• Understand, leverage, and extend our design principles to deliver a consistent and rich interactive experience.
• Create prototypes to support user research and inform the development of Sonos app experiences. 
• Create compelling presentations and documentation that clearly and concisely communicate design work and your rationale behind proposals.
• Communicate complex information to the team, including UX goals and broader systemic initiatives, so they understand the relevance.

What You’ll Need

• You should thrive in and embrace ambiguity. You have the ability to create ideas that solve complex problems and can narrow them down through research and collaboration.
• You’ve shipped Product. You have 3+ years of experience delivering apps, hardware and software from brief to shipping within a team environment.
• You’re experienced designing digital products and systems. You have experience designing experiences for mobile, tablet, and desktop.
• You’re effective throughout the entire product development process, from problem definition through to specification.
• You’re dedicated to craft. You’ve created high-fidelity design and workshops using modern tools including Figma, Miro, etc.
• You’re an excellent communicator. You can communicate the breadth and complexity of the product experience- in particular how your work relates to Sonos as an interconnected system.
• You’re curious. You enjoy supporting stakeholder interviews and user research, and integrating findings into final designs.
• You own the success or failure of design work and have found solutions to improve shipped work.

Bonus 

• You’ve worked on experiences or systems that combine hardware and software. 
• You are obsessed with detail.
• You have experience working with distributed teams and understand the sensibilities and responsibility that come with it. 

Requirements:

• A link to an online portfolio or online work samples required for consideration on the role. Please include the password required to view work.
• Degree in a relevant field (HCI, Graphic Design, Interaction Design, etc.)

We consider a wide range of factors when determining compensation, which may cause compensation to vary depending on your skills, experience and qualifications. This job is also eligible for discretionary bonuses as well as an opportunity to become a Sonos shareholder because all full time employees are eligible for stock grants. The minimum base pay may be modified in the future based on changing market conditions. The starting minimum base pay for this role is: $130,000

We offer a comprehensive package of benefits including open time off, medical/dental/vision insurance, 401(k), and other benefits subject to eligibility requirements. 

Note: No amount of pay is considered to be wages or compensation until such amount is earned, vested, and determinable. The amount and availability of any bonus, benefits, or any other form of compensation and benefits that are allocable to a particular employee remains in the Company's sole discretion unless and until paid and may be modified at the Company’s sole discretion, consistent with the law.

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