WHO WE ARE:
Splice is a creative platform for people who make music. Serious producers choose Splice Sounds to bring their ideas to life. A subscription to Splice inspires and accelerates creative success for digital music creators with an industry-leading catalog of sounds and samples and an expanding AI stack. With a rent-to-own marketplace of DAWs and plugins, the Splice experience seamlessly integrates into any music production workflow, regardless of DAW (Digital Audio Workstation). Via Splice, an unparalleled team of sound designers and sample creators are fueling the success of a growing global community of chart-topping producers, students, and DIY creators.
HOW WE WORK:
At Splice, DISCO is a rallying cry for collaboration, accountability, and unity within our organization; Direct, Inclusive, Splice Together, Creator Centric, and Optimistic. Our shared success depends on our ability to support one another, work well together, and communicate directly. By embracing flexibility and a unified approach, we can navigate anything that’s thrown at us.
Splice embraces a culture of remote work. You’ll see your colleagues showing up from across the US and the UK. In order to keep us working well as a team, we have regular communication, including Town Halls, departmental all-hands and get-togethers.
When you join Splice, you join a network of colleagues, peers, and collaborators. Are you ready?
JOB TITLE: Staff Designer
LOCATION: US Remote
THE ROLE:
You're someone who can move between brand and product without losing resolution on either. You understand that a visual identity and a product interface are the same conversation: one shapes what people believe, the other shapes what they do.
Kits is Splice's AI vocal creation product, a tool that lets producers generate, transform, and clone vocals without a singer in the room. It's technically strong and growing fast. We have a real opportunity to refresh the brand and build a product experience that makes our ML capabilities feel clear and easy to use.
You're joining a small, focused team where you'll own the brand and the product surface, partnering directly with the GM and engineering from day one. You'll be in the details and helping set the direction at the same time.
WHAT YOU’LL DO:
Refresh the Kits brand. The product is evolving from a vocal processing tool into a complete AI vocal creation suite. The brand needs to reflect that. You'll define the new visual identity, ensure it holds up in context with the Splice family, and bring it to life across product and marketing surfaces.
Design the AI vocal creation workflow. The core Kits experience spans vocal generation, transformation, and cloning — a stack that producers currently piece together across multiple tools. You'll design the end-to-end workflow that collapses that process into something that feels both powerful and inevitable. Every step needs to be clear, controllable, and made for producers.
Make ethical AI visible. Kits' commitment to licensed, ethically sourced voice models is a genuine differentiator. That commitment needs to be felt in the product, not just stated in the marketing. You'll design the guardrails, disclosures, and trust signals that make a producer confident in what they're using and why.
Design for multiple surfaces. Phase one is the web product. Phase two is a VST plugin, desktop app, and improved mobile experience. You'll think across these contexts from the start, designing in a way that scales without starting over.
Own the product's marketing and growth surfaces. Kits' site and acquisition funnel are part of your scope. The landing page, onboarding flow, and subscription experience all need to hold together with the same quality as the product itself.
Set the design foundation. There is an existing system, but it’s ready to get an overhaul. You'll build the components, patterns, and documentation that let the team move faster over time.
Use AI-native tools. Cursor, Claude, or similar tools are a standard part of your design and prototyping workflow.
JOB REQUIREMENTS:
- You have 10+ years of product design experience with meaningful work in both brand and product. Your portfolio shows that you operate at the same level of craft in a visual identity system as you do in a complex product workflow.
- Your portfolio demonstrates exceptional craft. The work shows a refined eye, strong visual judgment, and execution that doesn't cut corners. You care about how things feel, not just how they look.
- You are already using AI-native tools as a standard part of your workflow. Cursor, Claude, or similar are natural to you. This is a baseline expectation in the world we operate in today.
- You've operated as a sole designer or worked in a small team where you owned a broad scope and shipped anyway. You don't wait for perfect clarity. You move, communicate, and adjust. You're the one who raises the design bar on the team.
- You're comfortable with ambiguity at the product level and precise at the execution level. You can hold a strategic conversation about what Kits should be and then show the team what that means. Both matter here.
- You work well with PMs and engineers. You don't wait for perfect specs. You communicate with precision and give feedback that makes the work better. You're switched on enough to see what needs fixing and honest enough to name it.
NICE TO HAVES:
- Genuine love of music and creator culture. You understand what it feels like to chase an idea, to need a vocal that doesn't exist yet, to reach for tools that help you finish the song.
- Experience designing for audio tools, music software, or creator products. You know the vocabulary and the expectations of this audience.
- Front-end fluency. HTML, CSS, React. You can read code, write simple interactions, and talk through complexity with engineers.
- Experience designing subscription or freemium experiences. You've been inside both the metrics and the psychology of a creator deciding whether something is worth paying for.
SPLICE BENEFITS:
- Compensation & Equity: Competitive pay with annual reviews and equity opportunities.
- Time Off: Unlimited PTO to recharge and thrive.
- Health & Wellness: Comprehensive medical, dental, and vision coverage for you and your dependents.
- Retirement Savings: 401(k) plan with immediate vesting and company match.
- Parental Support: 12 weeks of fully paid parental leave for non-birthing parents, and 18-20 weeks for birthing parents.
- Flexible Work Options: Work remotely or connect at our office hubs and creative spaces worldwide.
- Professional Growth: Annual learning budget, leadership programs, and team ambassador opportunities.
- Community & Connection: Inclusive events, team meet-ups, and vibrant Employee Resource Groups.
The national pay range for this role is $151,108 - $188,885. Individual compensation will be commensurate with the candidate's experience.
Splice is an Equal Opportunity Employer
Splice provides equal employment opportunities to all employees and applicants for employment and prohibits discrimination and harassment of any type without regard to race, color, religion, age, sex, national origin, disability status, genetics, protected veteran status, sexual orientation, gender identity or expression, or any other characteristic protected by federal, state or local laws.
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