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 a passionate and experienced product leader to join a new team called Platform 4 Platforms. The mission of the team is to build tools and services that support our platformization process, with the aim of extending the reach and impact of our Key Business Platforms, across Spotify and the audio industry.
In this role, you will lead a new cross-functional, small and independent team that will explore a new product area within our Platform Developer Experience organisation. You will be a key part of understanding, navigating and leading product innovation in an ambiguous space. You will work within the team to build a deep understanding of platform owner and user problems, to inform the development of new products that provide a simple, consistent and delightful experience. Together with your teammates you will help drive our results-oriented goals, for the next phase of scaling Spotify's business platforms.
What You'll Do
- Understand the needs of platform owners and users, how to evolve the Key Business Platforms domain to support Spotify’s growth.
- Keen interest and willingness to work on both engineering and business value proposition strategies.
- Balance needs around reliability, security and scale with building new features.
- Work closely with our Quality, Platform Insights, and Product Design teams as well as Platform owners across the organisation to set goals and develop strategies for reaching them.
- Deeply care about improving developer experience for our engineers, while working with the Engineering Manager to ensure healthy delivery – including capabilities, happiness, resilience, and growth.
- Ensure your team is doing the right things, while not being spread too thinly. A healthy balance of innovation, support and maintenance are key for successful teams at Spotify.
Who You Are
- You are an interdisciplinary problem solver, with a love for leading discovery and partnering with designers, user researchers, data scientists and technical architects; as well as internal partners, to understand new problem spaces and blend different perspectives in pursuit of a mission.
- You have a clear understanding of what it means to build platform products as opposed to consumer products, are passionate about building products that enable others to move with speed to solve their own needs, while enabling others to do the same.
- An outstanding leader, communicator, and storyteller, you are comfortable with both writing and presenting to get your ideas heard, get alignment from a variety of partners and engage with your audience on a personal level.
- You are good at sorting out ambiguity, while being structured and paying close attention to details.
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 EMEA region in which we have a work location and is within working hours.
- Working hours? We operate within the Central European and GMT time zones 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 with a community of more than 381 million users.