Director of Design

Soundstripe • Nashville, TN

7d • Remote

About The Position

Soundstripe is a premier music licensing platform used by more than a million creators and professionals globally to level up their creative works, including tv shows, films, advertising, podcasts, and video games. Launched in 2016 by three professional musicians, the company fuels creativity for all types of customers, from amateur social creators to freelance filmmakers and podcasters to the world’s largest agencies and major brands, like Microsoft, Pepsi, Netflix, Adobe, Fabletics, Bud Light, and more.

Since its inception, Soundstripe has issued over 20 million content licenses from its diverse catalog of over 56,000 fully cleared audio tracks, as well as from its catalog of 90,000 sound effects and 100,000 video clips. The company is based in Nashville and its catalog is supported by a roster of award-winning musical artists, including heavy hitters like Sam Barsh (Doja Cat, The Weeknd, Kendrick Lamar), VAULTZ (Lorde, Maggie Rogers), and Elise Solberg (Beyonce, Ellie Goulding).

Our culture blends the creative spirit of the music industry with the data-driven, performance mindset of a high-growth tech company. We thrive on innovation, agility, and driving results that matter. Soundstripe is a 6-time winner of the Tennessean’s Top Workplace Award and a certified Great Place to Work. Learn more about us here.

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

Nice To Haves

• Bonus points if you’ve worked with music, media, or creative tools, or if you’ve worked directly with a technical founder or CTO

Responsibilities

• 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
• Ensure brand and marketing surfaces drive engagement, awareness, and acquisition, not just look good
• 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. You'll be expected to lead AI adoption within design, not wait for engineering to hand you tools

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

What This Job Offers

• Job Type: Full-time
• Career Level: Director
• Education Level: No Education Listed
• Number of Employees: 11-50 employees