About the Role
Design and optimize direct-to-consumer (D2C) online stores for leading artists and labels, shaping how fans experience and purchase from artists through high-performing e-commerce experiences. Translate music culture, brand identity, and merchandising into seamless, emotionally engaging online stores that drive sales and fan loyalty.
Responsibilities
- Design and iterate on e-commerce experiences, including landing pages, product detail pages, checkout, and campaign microsites.
- Present design ideas clearly and advocate for good interface and experience.
- Create user flows, wireframes, prototypes, and high-fidelity designs balancing storytelling, usability, and conversion.
- Collaborate with developers, merchandisers, and marketing teams to ensure pixel-perfect implementation and an exceptional end-to-end customer journey.
- Use insights from analytics, A/B testing, and fan feedback to refine and optimize store performance.
- Translate brand and album aesthetics into cohesive digital experiences aligned with campaign visuals and creative direction.
- Advocate for best-in-class UX practices, accessibility, and responsive design across all digital touchpoints.
- Work closely with developers to ensure the feasibility and implementation of design solutions.
Requirements
- 3+ years of experience in UI/UX design, ideally in e-commerce, entertainment, or consumer brands.
- Strong portfolio demonstrating responsive design, visual design systems, and UX problem-solving.
- Excellent proficiency in Figma/prototyping tools and Adobe Creative Suite.
- Good working knowledge of Shopify and/or other D2C e-commerce platforms.
- Understanding of digital merchandising, conversion optimization, and checkout flow best practices.
- Comfortable working in a fast-paced, campaign-driven environment with shifting priorities.
- Experience designing for music artists, record labels, or fan-focused digital products (Nice to Have).
- Familiarity with HTML5, JS, CSS (Nice to Have).
Skills
- UI/UX design
- Responsive design
- Visual design systems
- UX problem-solving
- Figma
- Prototyping tools
- Adobe Creative Suite
- Shopify
- D2C e-commerce platforms
- Digital merchandising
- Conversion optimization
- Checkout flow best practices
- HTML5
- JS
- CSS
Location
- Philly
Work Type
- Full-time
Experience Level
- 3+ years
Benefits
- Comprehensive medical, dental, and vision coverage
- 100% coverage for out-patient in-network mental health services
- Fertility coverage for eligible medical plan participants
- Wellbeing reimbursements for fitness classes, spa treatments, meal services, travel, and so much more (up to $720/year)
- Student Loan Repayment Assistance and Tuition Reimbursement
- 401(k) with 100% immediate vesting on the first 5% of your contributions, plus an additional UMG contribution
- Flexible Paid Time Off (PTO) for exempt employees
- 3-weeks PTO for non-exempt employees
- 2-weeks paid Winter Break
- 10 Company Holidays (including Juneteenth and Wellbeing Day)
- Summer Fridays (between Memorial Day and Labor Day)
- Generous paid parental leave for every type of parent
About the Company
- We are Universal Music Group, the world’s leading music company.
- We are the home for music’s greatest artists, innovators and entrepreneurs.
- In everything we do, we are committed to artistry, innovation and entrepreneurship.
- We own and operate a broad array of businesses engaged in recorded music, music publishing, merchandising, and audiovisual content in more than 60 countries.
- We identify and develop recording artists and songwriters, and we produce, distribute and promote the most critically acclaimed and commercially successful music to delight and entertain fans around the world.
- Famehouse, a division of UMG, is the preeminent leader in D2C solutions in music, defining & delivering the industry’s best-in-class service to connect artists with their fans.
- Established & headquartered in Philly, Fame House powers eCommerce for UMG’s labels, artists, and Bravado, along with a select roster of 3rd party clients.
- Our success & culture is fueled by collaboration, both within FH and with our partners.
- We are passionate about the impact of eCommerce for artists, providing a full service solution to grow an artist’s owned business including strategy, creative, storefront merchandising, fulfillment, customer service, technology, and more.
Equal Opportunity
- Universal Music Group is an Equal Opportunity Employer.
- We are an E-Verify employer in Alabama, Arizona, Georgia, Mississippi, North Carolina, South Carolina, Tennessee, and Utah.
- Please note, UMG is not enrolled in E-Verify in California and New York, and cannot support employment of candidates whose employer must enroll in E-Verify, for example candidates on STEM-OPT.
