UMT
Staff Product Manager
San Francisco, CA · Staff+
Sponsorship not specified$210k-$245kDetected 42 days ago
iOSAndroidData ScienceA/B TestingFigmaUX ResearchUI DesignDesign SystemsAccessibilityProject ManagementResearchLeadershipCommunication
About the role
- The UnitedMasters team is made up of musicians, marketers, engineers, and storytellers with backgrounds from YouTube, SoundCloud, Pandora, Facebook, Uber, Dropbox, Complex, VICE, and more.
- We work hand in hand with the award-winning creative teams that forge those innovative partnerships at Translation (our in-house creative advertising agency).
- This role is based in San Francisco with four days in-office and one day remote.
Responsibilities
- Establish a unified design language and systems that scale across mobile and desktop experiences.
- Hands-On Design Execution (Player/Coach)
- Deliver high-quality designs and prototypes for mobile apps and web interfaces, demonstrating mastery of platform-specific interaction patterns.
- Lead critical product surfaces including onboarding, distribution tools, subscription areas, analytics, payments, and artist monetization features.
- Collaborate directly with engineers to ensure designs are technically feasible and implemented with high fidelity across platforms.
- Coach designers on mobile UI patterns, responsive design, gesture-based interaction, and layout systems.
- Build a deep understanding of how artists and label partners use our products across devices.
- Manage, mentor, and develop a small but high-impact UX/UI design team.
- Establish design critique rituals, quality standards, and platform-specific guidelines for mobile and web.
- Implement design ops practices to streamline workflows, improve velocity, and reduce design debt.
Requirements
- Expertise in user research, usability testing, customer discovery, and insight synthesis.
- Proficiency with Figma, prototyping tools, mobile design systems, and responsive layout frameworks.
- You must be comfortable alternating between high-level UX strategy, pixel-level detail, and customer discovery.
Nice to have
- Experience in creator platforms, music tech, digital media, or marketplace ecosystems.
- Familiarity with experimentation/analytics systems (A/B testing, funnels, behavioral data).
- History of partnering deeply with engineering teams to ship mobile and web features at scale.
- Ability to coach designers across mobile interaction patterns, responsive best practices, UX writing, visual craft, and systems thinking.
- About UnitedMasters, Inc.
- UnitedMasters Inc. represents the creative solutions company, Translation, and the leading software and services platform for independent creators, UnitedMasters.
- UnitedMasters enables ownership, exposure, and new paths for financial return for independent creators, while Translation helps brands leverage the power of contemporary culture to achieve transformational growth.
- We expect the majority of the candidates who are offered roles at our company to fall healthily throughout the range based on these factors.
Compensation
- Our salary ranges are based on paying competitively for our size and industry, and are one part of many compensation, benefits and other reward opportunities we provide (e.g. bonus, stock options, 401(k) match, etc.)
- Individual pay rate decisions are based on a number of factors, including qualifications for the role, experience level, skillset, and balancing internal equity relative to peers at the company.
- If that ends up being the case, the updated salary range will be communicated with you as a candidate.
- The salary range above is for the NY/CA.
- As a company, we have a location based strategy, which means the salary range could be lower or higher than this if the role is hired in another location.
- $210,000 - $245,000
Benefits
- UnitedMasters is seeking a Director of UX to lead the design vision, customer research, and end-to-end product experience across iOS, Android, and web.
- Design Leadership & Vision
Company info
- UnitedMasters is building a marketplace that connects artists, brands and fans - empowering artists to earn and grow. UnitedMasters has taken the bold step of building a music distribution service that, radically, puts artists first - disrupting the legacy music business by letting up-and-coming artists distribute their music directly to fans through streaming services while maintaining ownership of their master recording rights and up to 100% of royalties. Through the combination of UnitedMasters' music distribution platform and its deep ties to brands, UnitedMasters enables independent artists and change-makers to grow and earn unlike any other platform.
- The UnitedMasters team is made up of musicians, marketers, engineers, and storytellers with backgrounds from YouTube, SoundCloud, Pandora, Facebook, Uber, Dropbox, Complex, VICE, and more. We work hand in hand with the award-winning creative teams that forge those innovative partnerships at Translation (our in-house creative advertising agency).
- What's the Role
- UnitedMasters is seeking a Director of UX to lead the design vision, customer research, and end-to-end product experience across iOS, Android, and web. You will manage a team of UX/UI designers while also being deeply hands-on a true player/coach who actively designs, prototypes, and conducts research alongside your team.
- UnitedMasters has taken the bold step of building a music distribution service that, radically, puts artists first - disrupting the legacy music business by letting up-and-coming artists distribute their music directly to fans through streaming services while maintaining ownership of their master recording rights and up to 100% of royalties.
- Through the combination of UnitedMasters' music distribution platform and its deep ties to brands, UnitedMasters enables independent artists and change-makers to grow and earn unlike any other platform.
- This role requires a design leader who has extensive experience designing for mobile apps and responsive web products, bringing consistency, craft, and clarity across platforms.
- You'll partner with Product, Engineering, Marketing, and Data Science to deliver intuitive, artist-first experiences that drive growth, retention, and label partner success.
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