Product Designer - Sony Music Entertainment - New York, NY

The Orchard is a leading distributor of digital music and film. We have almost 20 million songs in our catalogue, which accounts for over 20% of the music that’s currently available on Spotify and iTunes. Our growing film business has more than 10 theatrical releases planned in 2016 and a 2015 Oscar Nominated documentary film. The Orchard’s YouTube channels have 100 billion lifetime views.

We are looking for a Product Designer to join our team, cultivate a deep understanding of the user, and translate this into innovative product designs that span multiple channels and devices.

You are: A team player with proven success in meeting deadlines. Meticulous and attentive to visual detail with a natural eye for design. A listener who takes a user-centered design approach and gathers inspiration and actionable feedback from users. Creative and seek excellence in producing clean, minimal and bold designs. A perfectionist who has fine attention to detail, but also understands the importance of quick prototyping.

Responsibilities:
Act as the design advocate in strategic product decisions. Craft prototypes of proposed product designs. Collaborate with other designers and engineers to ensure that design concepts are technically feasible as part of the iterative design process. Own the development and management of style guides and product documentation to maintain reusable and efficient designs.

Qualifications:
Online portfolio that shows depth of projects and explains your process and involvement throughout. Demonstrated experience in designing responsive web and mobile products a must. Ability to create prototypes using HTML/CSS/Javascript. Experience working in collaborative team of Designers, Engineers and Product Managers. Have led and iterated on the design effort across the entire product lifecycle, including wireframing, visual design and prototyping, user research and testing. Experience increasing the fidelity of conceptual designs/artifacts, such as paper sketches or wireframes, into interactive prototypes. Familiar with design tools such as Sketch, Invision, Photoshop, Illustrator, Balsamiq and Omnigraffle A love for music and film a plus

About The Orchard®

The Orchard is an independent music and video distribution company that provides an innovative and comprehensive sales and marketing platform for content owners. With our industry-leading technology and operations, we partner with companies of all sizes to make their music and videos available across hundreds of digital and mobile outlets around the world, and physical retailers too. We work with our clients to maximize their revenue, and provide them with the latest and greatest digital marketing tools and sophisticated sales analytics to help them run their businesses efficiently and effectively.

The Orchard was founded in 1997 in New York City to foster independence and creativity in the music industry. Our headquarters are in New York and London, with operations in more than 25 markets around the world, including France, Spain, Germany, Mexico, Argentina, India, Australia and more. At The Orchard, the focus is to provide a comfortable, social and engaging environment to encourage productivity, creativity and personal/business relationships. From monthly potlucks and game nights to company kickball teams and other staff perks, our employees like what they do and where they do it.

All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, sex, national origin, disability or protected veteran status.