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Spotify Hiring for Director of Product, Talk at New York, NY Full Time
Product
Spotify is a global community of over 250 million music fans, artists, and now podcasters. It’s always been our mission to make audio more accessible for everyone, and create innovative ways for creators and fans to connect with each other.
Location
New York
Job type
Permanent
The Talk Mission is the team within Spotify responsible for building the best tools for podcast, video, and live creators. We have three platforms that help us deliver a great creator experience: Anchor (the platform that allows you to create, distribute, monetize, and grow a podcast, all for free), Spotify for Podcasters (the platform that makes it easy to understand and engage with your listeners on Spotify), and Spotify Live (the platform that allows anyone to stream and interact with live audio).
We’ve done a lot already, and we have no plans of slowing down. Come help us build the future of Talk creation!
What you’ll do
- Own the product strategy and execution for Spotify’s offering for Talk creators, across several platforms (Anchor, Spotify Live, Spotify for Podcasters, and more) and formats (Podcasts, Video, and Live)
- Lead a cross functional team including directly managing product and design (currently 4 Group Product Managers and 2 Design Managers), and partnering with user research, insights, engineering, etc to achieve success as a unit
- Recruit, coach, and grow a hard-working (and happy) team of product and design leaders
- Lead our evolution of current products in-market for talk creation
- Lead the development of new product strategies to help talk creators build an audience, make money, and cultivate communities with their fans
- Develop a deep understanding of both creator and listener needs that informs the systems we design for them to engage with one another
- Collaborate closely with marketing, business strategy, and consumer teams to design and tune products based on market feedback and to drive cohesive go-to-market strategies
- Ensure healthy and productive product and design teams
- Be an influential member of Spotify’s Talk Mission leadership team, responsible for our talk creator proposition
Who you are
- A proven track record of effectively leading and executing a scaled consumer-facing product – even better if you’ve worked on a product that helps consumers create something or express themselves
- A strong perspective (and hopefully opinions) about the future of the creator economy and topics such as creator tools, media platforms, monetization models, creative expression, and general internet culture
- Experienced at managing organizations with many cross-functional partners and business stakeholders (legal, finance, other product teams, etc)
- An inclusive people leader with a track record of building and leading healthy teams that drive impact
- Experience managing managers and growing leaders within your organization
- Experience leading complex initiatives, and distinctive problem-solving and analytical abilities
- An excellent written and verbal communicator and collaborator
- Ideally, you are a fan of podcasts
Where you’ll be
- We are a distributed workforce enabling our band members to find a work mode best for them!
- Where in the world? For this role, we’re ideally looking within the Americas region (anywhere we have a work location)
- 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 EST time zone for collaboration and ask that all be located there
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.
Learn about life at Spotify
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.
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.
This role is not eligible for hire in Colorado, USA.
