Engineering Manager Freemium

The Freemium R&D team oversees the entire user journey on Spotify and ensures we engage with people in innovative ways, every step of the way. Our team grows Spotify’s audience by finding future listeners around the world and delivering the right value to them, at the right time. With research, product development, product design, engineering, and marketing all collaborating in one organization, we’re able to quickly create meaningful features and services for millions of people around the world, resulting in joyful, long-lasting relationships with Spotify.

We believe that Spotify has a presence and vision of a world connected through audio and this team is one within the center of this concept; building experiences that unlock new forms of fan connection across the audio network. This experienced team sets boundaries of innovative, delightful campaigns, and is responsible for the most highly anticipated year-in-review Spotify product. This experience has validated that Spotify can captivate and build positive global conversations, celebrate diversity, and unite the world through this shared yearly-moment.

This role sits within our experimental growth area at Spotify and seeks to find and solve meaningful growth opportunities. Our process is thoughtful, fast-paced, impact oriented, and most importantly, people-first. We tackle new and existing ideas with strong potential with the goal of bringing higher value and connection to users via deep-dive explorations, experimental A/B tests and iterations with data-informed decisions.

We're a team responsible for growth and are looking for a strong and forward-thinking Engineering Manager to support and grow not only this full-stack team, but the product and owned experiences into ones that push the boundaries of innovation even further. Above all, your work will change the way the world experiences audio content.

What You'll Do

• Collaborate with marketing teams, as well as direct partners in product, insights, and design to uncover the next growth opportunity within owned and new features
• Lead and manage a team of mobile, web and backend engineers through hiring, coaching, mentoring, feedback, and hands-on career development
• Grow a healthy, collaborative engineering culture in line with our Spotify values and build technical expertise amongst the team
• Effectively facilitate and bridge collaboration with cross-discipline partners to solve exciting and high-reaching problems
• Drive forward technical initiatives within your team, and look to introduce new opportunities by way of A/B testing
• Ensure the team has an established tech strategy and prioritization of tech excellence
• Cultivate agile methodologies and champion a culture of sustainable tech health

Who You Are

• You are an experienced Engineering Manager with strong communication and ability to successfully lead fast-paced, high-profile projects with timely delivery and execution
• You have a proven track record of successfully managing fullstack engineering teams and establishing strong alignment with insights, design and product counterparts
• You can effectively lead ambitious roadmaps, advising partners proactively of project statuses, risks and support needs
• You care about proficient agile processes, data-informed development, reliability, and sound experimentation execution
• You prioritize quality, delivering high quality products throughout their life cycles, from idea conception to product release and maintenance
• You enjoy teaching and growing others, are passionate about your work, strive towards the goals of the team and, ultimately, the Spotify mission -- “giving a million creators the opportunity to live off their art and billions of fans the opportunity to enjoy and be inspired by it"

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
• We ask that our team members be located within Central Standard time zone, Eastern Standard time zone, or Brasília time zone for the purposes of our collaboration hours
• 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.
• Working hours? We operate within the Eastern Standard time zone for collaboration

Our global 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.
• Spotify On Tour, join your colleagues on trips to industry festivals and events.