Senior Digital Product Designer
Telepathic Instruments
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Job Description
About Telepathic Instruments
Telepathic Instruments is an internationally based electronic instruments company founded by Kevin Parker and friends. Our whole thing is to help musicians find what’s on their mind. Our first product, Orchid, combines intuitive design with deep synthesis and sampling capabilities, and we’re just getting started. Our product design is led by 3 core principles: Insight, Innovation, and Inspiration. We’re building more than instruments—we’re building a movement of creative musicians who see themselves as collaborators in the future of music technology. *And Love and Money is not what you think it is.
Role Summary
We’re hiring a Senior Digital Product Designer to work across Telepathic Instruments and Love and Money. This is a shared full-time contractor role focused on product design at the intersection of creativity, culture, and technology.
At Telepathic, you’ll lead UX/UI for our digital software experiences, instrument interfaces (GUI), ecommerce, onboarding, and connected web platforms. At Love and Money, you’ll contribute to high-impact digital, brand, and product sprints for world-class clients across identity, platform, and experience.
You’ll work closely with product, creative, and engineering teams to scope, prototype, and deliver work that’s intuitive, inspiring, and effective. You’ll bring clarity to complexity, elevate our craft, and help us scale both product systems and design standards.
Responsibilities
Telepathic Instruments (3 Days/Week)
- Digital Product Design & UX: Lead end-to-end UX/UI for our desktop apps, web-based tools, and ecommerce platforms. Design scalable, intuitive systems for our plugin ecosystem (e.g. Pistil), firmware UIs, and onboarding flows. Collaborate with engineering to ensure design fidelity, performance, and feasibility.
- GUI & Instrument Interface Design: Own the look and feel of GUI experiences for Orchid and future Telepathic instruments. Translate synthesis parameters and controls into clear, expressive interaction models. Shape the visual language of Telepathic’s digital product layer.
- Ecommerce & Experience Design: Refine our Shopify-based ecommerce flow across markets. Design drop experiences, product education flows, and support interfaces. Partner with brand and marketing to drive seamless creative-to-commerce experiences.
- Validation & Testing Support: Support UX validation through hands-on user testing, internal QA, and coordinated regression testing. Design and refine test cases tied to user stories, collaborating with QA and product teams. Participate in bug triage and feedback loops, helping isolate usability issues before release.
- User Insight Platforms: Monitor and analyse user feedback across BetaHub, Discord, Nolt, and Patreon. Translate recurring issues and insights into actionable design improvements. Maintain empathy-driven awareness of user sentiment and report back patterns regularly.
Love and Money (2 Days/Week)
- Digital & Brand Sprint Design: Contribute to identity, UI, and digital platform design across client sprints. Help shape branded product experiences with clear systems and stunning design. Work across brand and digital teams to deliver world-class outcomes.
- Product & Creative Exploration: Bring product thinking into brand design, helping elevate strategy through UX clarity. Rapidly iterate on prototypes, visual systems, and client-facing deliverables.
Skills & Experience
- 5–10+ years experience in UX/UI and digital product design.
- Mastery of Figma and modern design tooling (incl. component systems, prototyping).
- Strong systems thinking and design leadership.
- Experience designing hardware interfaces, plugins, or digital-physical UX a big plus.
- Able to work across product, QA, and engineering teams from idea to implementation.
- Comfortable using validation, regression testing, and feedback platforms to inform design.
- Strong communication and stakeholder presentation skills.
- Bonus: experience with Shopify, BetaHub, Nolt, Discord, Patreon.
- Bonus-bonus: you’ve used Orchid, are obsessed with music gear, or know the names of at least 5 of our Studios guests.
What Success Looks Like
- World-class software interfaces and GUI experiences at Telepathic Instruments.
- Smooth usability and fewer regressions release over release.
- Design inputs grounded in clear user feedback and test data.
- Meaningful design contributions across brand and product sprints at Love and Money.
- A trusted partner to product, creative, and engineering leads on both teams.
Key skills/competency
- UX/UI Design
- Digital Product Design
- Figma Mastery
- Systems Thinking
- Design Leadership
- Hardware Interfaces
- Prototyping
- User Testing
- E-commerce Design
- Brand Design
How to Get Hired at Telepathic Instruments
- Research Telepathic Instruments' innovative approach: Study their mission, values, recent news, and employee testimonials on LinkedIn and Glassdoor, focusing on their unique music technology vision.
- Tailor your resume and portfolio: Highlight extensive UX/UI and digital product design experience, specifically showcasing projects involving hardware interfaces, plugin ecosystems, or creative technology solutions.
- Showcase systems thinking and design leadership: Prepare to discuss how you've designed scalable component systems, led design initiatives, and managed projects from concept through implementation.
- Demonstrate passion for music technology: Mention your familiarity with products like Orchid or your general enthusiasm for music gear and the creative process in your cover letter and interviews.
- Emphasize collaboration and feedback integration: Provide examples of successful cross-functional collaboration with engineering and product teams, and how you've leveraged user feedback platforms to inform design decisions.
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