USD per year
Senior Engineering Manager
Spotify for Artists
The Music Mission team owns Spotify’s end to end proposition for music creators and the experiences they create for fans. The team is dedicated to building tools and services to enable creation, promotion, expression, and monetization at scale. Spotify for Artists (S4A) is Spotify’s flagship platform for artists and their teams, supporting over 650,000 monthly active users across web and mobile. It’s where artists manage their presence on Spotify—exploring audience insights, promoting releases, customizing profiles, and growing their business through tools like Marquee, Showcase, and Discovery Mode. As part of the Music Mission, this team operates across a broad technical landscape including client applications, backend systems, and large-scale data pipelines. You’ll lead a team working at the intersection of product innovation and platform reliability, shaping experiences that directly impact Spotify’s global creator community.
What You'll Do
- Lead and grow a team of engineers across backend, client, and data disciplines, supporting multiple squads
- Set clear technical and organizational direction across a complex, full-stack product area
- Partner closely with Product, Design, Insights, and Marketing to deliver impactful features for artists
- Drive execution across multiple concurrent initiatives, ensuring strong coordination and delivery
- Translate ambiguity into clear priorities, helping teams navigate competing demands and inbound requests
- Oversee the development of scalable systems that process and surface large volumes of artist data
- Support critical platform operations and contribute to incident response readiness through team leadership
- Contribute to strategic initiatives including AI-driven experiences and artist-focused product innovation
Who You Are
- You have 8+ years of experience in software engineering, with significant experience in engineering leadership, including managing managers
- You have led multiple teams or orgs simultaneously and are comfortable operating across a broad, multi-disciplinary technical surface
- You are experienced in setting direction through other leaders, empowering them while holding a high bar for delivery and accountability
- You know how to navigate organizational complexity and drive alignment across senior cross-functional stakeholders
- You are skilled at turning ambiguity into clear strategy, priorities, and execution plans across multiple teams
- You have a strong technical foundation and can engage in discussions across backend systems, client applications, and data platforms
- You care deeply about building inclusive, high-performing teams and have a track record of developing managers and senior engineers
- You are calm and structured in high-pressure situations, able to manage competing priorities and guide teams through critical decisions
- You have experience operating in environments with high data scale and understand how to translate complex data into meaningful user experiences
- You are motivated by building products that serve creators, artists or similar user communities
Where You'll Be
- This role is based in New York
- We offer you the flexibility to work where you work best! There will be some in person meetings but still allows for flexibility to work from home
Learn about life at Spotify
The United States base range for this position is $203410–$290586 USD plus equity. The benefits available for this position include health insurance six-month paid parental leave 401(k) retirement plan monthly meal allowance 23 paid days off paid flexible holidays paid sick leave. These ranges may be modified in the future. 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 so is our workplace. The more voices we have represented amplified in our business the more we will all thrive contribute be forward-thinking! So bring us your personal experience your perspectives your background. It’s in our differences that we will find power to keep revolutionizing way world listens. At Spotify we are passionate about inclusivity making sure our entire recruitment process accessible everyone. We have ways request reasonable accommodations during interview process help assist what you need. If you need accommodations any stage application interview process please let us know - we’re here support you any way we can. Spotify transformed music listening forever when launched 2008. Our mission unlock potential human creativity by giving million creative artists opportunity live off their art billions fans chance enjoy passionate about these creators. Everything we do driven by love music podcasting today we world’s most popular audio streaming subscription service.
Our global benefits:
- Extensive learning opportunities through our dedicated team GreenHouse.
- Flexible share incentives letting you choose how share success.
- Global parental leave six months off - for all new parents.
- All The Feels our employee assistance program self-care hub.
- Flexible public holidays swap days off according values beliefs.
Spotify is a global music streaming and podcast platform offering millions of songs and episodes accessible on multiple devices with various subscription plans.
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