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.
The Platform Insights team consists of highly motivated and extremely friendly people, specialising in providing core datasets, discovering insights, and providing guidance related to engineering effectiveness and data-informed decisions across R&D at Spotify.
We gather data from our software development processes, internal tools' usage, and our quarterly Engineering Satisfaction survey. Utilising data to identify bottlenecks, increase Spotify software development effectiveness, and promote data-informedness.
Do you have a passion for understanding and improving the efficiency of a R&D organisation of thousands of employees distributed across the world? Do you want to understand how work flows between teams, how tech health evolves, how Spotify teams put our insights to use? Do you like to help communicate our insights and optimize their impact? If so, join Platform Insights!
What You'll Do
- Define and drive the overall product vision for Platform Insights. Define and drive the strategy and metrics to drive development effectiveness and data informed decisions across R&D.
- Maintain a positive relationship with collaborators.
- You will work alongside engineers, data scientists, user researchers to identify and prioritize research areas where the team can have the greatest impact.
- Partner with your Engineering Manager to foster a culture of impact and performance.
- Ensure your team is focusing on the right things, balancing short versus long term needs. A healthy balance of innovation, support and tech health is key for all successful teams at Spotify.
Who You Are
- 3 or more years of product management experience.
- You have experience working in a large R&D organization and understand the challenges in building effective R&D teams in a rather technical environment.
- Driven, but with a strong collaborative approach and willing to be hands-on across a tech stack, including using BigQuery and Python.
- Excellent oral and written communicator, able to simplify complexity and influence decision-making at all levels.
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.
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