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Project Manager - Editorial job at Spotify

The Platform team creates the technology that enables Spotify to learn quickly and scale easily, enabling rapid growth in our users and our business around the globe. Spanning many disciplines, we work to make the business work; creating the frameworks, capabilities and tools needed to welcome a billion customers. Join us and help to amplify productivity, quality and innovation across Spotify.

We are looking for an experienced project manager to join our Editorial Design Operations team.

In this role, you will initiate, resource, maintain and lead projects, tasks, and requests with a focus on the Content Experience within the Spotify product. You will work with our Sr Project Manager and Design Manager to align the cross-functional collaboration between visual design and product design and make sure planning and prioritization run efficiently.

Our team’s mission is to provide operational expertise and leadership for Editorial Design and partners by developing and implementing standard methodologies, effective programs, and clear processes to drive efficiency and enable creativity across all Editorial Design projects.

Editorial Design is a distributed team of creatives who are passionate about helping Spotify customers connect with content they’ll love. We build moving and functional artwork that attracts and retains a diverse customer base across every active market. We build brands, and product experiences for a global audience spread across 180 markets (and counting). At the center of our remit, we drive the global creative direction of over 12,000 iconic Spotify playlists.

What you will do

Act as the liaison between Editorial Design and our collaborators, both internally and externally.
Together with the responsible design manager and Sr PM evaluate opportunities and prioritize and operationalize them for the team.
Facilitate research and experiments to gather quantitative and qualitative data
Engage with product, marketing, and user research teams to identify the needs of listeners across merchandising opportunities.
When needed - suggest, try out and evaluate new tools, processes, and other workflow improvements that will help the team and working groups be productive.
Bring clarity in cross-functional projects and workflows for team members and partners.
Initiate and drive kick-offs for new projects, create milestones and assign resources, communicate progress and set up and facilitate retrospectives/post mortems when needed.
Make sure projects run efficiently and that the team has what they need to deliver great work.
Look after timelines and deadlines for Editorial team projects, ensuring that we deliver work on time.
Develop communication plans to ensure other teams at Spotify know what we are working on and how to collaborate with us.

Who you are

You have 3+ years of experience as a project manager in a creative agency/in-house agency or production environment (digital experience is a must).
You have proven experience working as a project manager in UX projects, such as app development and/or website production etc.
You have experience in working with product teams.
You are comfortable with ambiguity and shaping projects from little details.
You’re familiar with various project management tools.
You’re flexible and can quickly adapt to change.
You facilitate continuous improvement.
You’re people-focused with a lot of emotional intelligence and an excellent communicator, respectful to collaborators at all levels across the organization.
You are diligent and a master of time management; both for yourself and your collaborators.
You’re a ‘do-er’ and take a hands-on approach to solving challenges.

Where you'll be:

We are a distributed workforce enabling our band members to find a work mode that is best for them!
Where in the world? For this role, it can be within the Americas region in which we have a work location and is within working hours.
Working hours? We operate within the Eastern Standard time zone for collaboration and ask that all be located in that time zone.
Prefer an office to work from home instead? Not a problem! We have plenty of options for your working preferences. Find more information about our Work From Anywhere options here.

Spotify is an equal opportunity employer. You are welcome at Spotify for who you are, no matter where you come from, what you look like, or what’s playing in your headphones. Our platform is for everyone, and so is our workplace. The more voices we have represented and amplified in our business, the more we will all thrive, contribute, and be forward-thinking! So bring us your personal experience, your perspectives, and your background. It’s in our differences that we will find the power to keep revolutionizing the way the world listens.

Spotify transformed music listening forever when we launched in 2008. Our mission is 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 chance to enjoy and be passionate about these creators. Everything we do is driven by our love for music and podcasting. Today, we are the world’s most popular audio streaming subscription service.

Global COVID and Vaccination Disclosure

Spotify is committed to safety and well-being of our employees, vendors and clients. We are following regional guidelines mandating vaccination and testing requirements, including those requiring vaccinations and testing for in-person roles and event attendance. For the US, we have mandated that all employees and contractors be fully vaccinated in order to work in our offices and externally with any third-parties. For all other locations, we strongly encourage our employees to get vaccinated and also follow local COVID and safety protocols.

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