Engineering Manager, Spotify
$156.3-223.3k
+ Equity
Commercial music streaming service
Job no longer available
Commercial music streaming service
1001+ employees
Job no longer available
$156.3-223.3k
+ Equity
1001+ employees
Company mission
To unlock the potential of human creativity—by giving a million creative artists the opportunity to live off their art and billions of fans the opportunity to enjoy and be inspired by it
Role
Who you are
- An experienced manager with full stack experience
- Have a knack for influencing without authority
- Are passionate about growing developing product spaces and the team that comes with it
- Are empathetic towards customer pains and are capable of translating them into technical requirements
- Are capable of managing stakeholders across multiple levels
What the job involves
- This manager role will be responsible for managing our Visual Merchandising and Editorial Tooling team
- Our visual merchandising team is responsible for delivering an experience that helps users connect to content they will love via relevant and high quality visuals
- The Editorial Team owns the internal Pacman platform and app ecosystem that runs on top of it
- This product is responsible for powering a set of internal tools that are critical for our editors across Music, Audiobooks, and Podcast to reach Spotify’s end customers and create Playlists that are at the heart of the editorial intelligence at Spotify
- Provide servant leadership for the team that reports to you
- Delivery of product improvements, features, migrations, and overall technical health
- Cultivate a balanced and collaborative engineering culture and a diverse and inclusive team that reflects our customers and the industry
- Collaborate with technical and product stakeholders to to define success metrics and roadmaps
- Influence and support the development of the technical architecture of the team’s stack
- Advocate for the increase knowledge of the Pacman platforms capabilities across the company
Our take
Spotify was founded in an attempt to combat the rampant music piracy that was causing significant harm to the industry. The company has since taken music streaming mainstream and now has 180m+ paying subscribers across the world.
With features that include a highly accessible interface and a vast catalogue of artists, Spotify's strong brand has been able to maintain growth in spite of fierce competition from deep-pocketed rivals like Amazon and Apple. The company has achieved this by making smart acquisitions to move into other verticals to strengthen its offerings, especially podcasting, by acquiring Gimlet Media, Anchor and Parcast.
Spotify's future plans include rapid growth with a goal to become a one-stop destination for all digital sound, as well as AI and NFT integrations. However, high costs incurred from the acquisition of exclusive podcasts, increasing competitor strength, and weak bottom-line growth mean that the company must find a balance to maintain its position in the sector.
Freddie
Company Specialist at Welcome to the Jungle
Insights
23% employee growth in 12 months
Company
Funding (last 2 of 8 rounds)
Jan 2016
$1bn
CONVERTIBLE
Jun 2015
$526m
SERIES G
Total funding: $2.1bn
Company benefits
- Extensive learning opportunities, through our dedicated team, GreenHouse
- Flexible share incentives letting you choose how you share in our success
- Global parental leave, six months off - fully paid - for all new parents
- All The Feels, our employee assistance program and self-care hub
- Flexible public holidays, swap days off according to your values and beliefs
Company HQ
Norrmalm, Stockholm, Stockholms län
Leadership
Daniel Ek
(CEO & Chairman)Founded Spotify in 2006. Previously worked as an executive at Tradera, an auction company that was sold to eBay and was briefly the CEO of uTorrent.
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