Senior Engineering Manager - Spotify for Artists

Spotify Spotify · Consumer · New York, NY · Music

Senior Engineering Manager for Spotify for Artists, leading a team focused on creator tools and services for music artists. The role involves managing managers, driving product innovation, and ensuring platform reliability for a large user base.

What you'd actually do

  1. Lead a team working at the intersection of product innovation and platform reliability, shaping experiences that directly impact Spotify’s global creator community.
  2. You have 8+ years of experience in software engineering, with significant experience in engineering leadership, including managing managers
  3. 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.
  4. You know how to navigate organizational complexity and drive alignment across senior cross-functional stakeholders
  5. You have experience operating in environments with high data scale and understand how to translate complex data into meaningful user experiences

Skills

Required

  • software engineering
  • engineering leadership
  • managing managers
  • leading multiple teams or orgs
  • setting direction
  • empowering leaders
  • high bar for delivery and accountability
  • navigating organizational complexity
  • driving alignment
  • senior cross-functional stakeholder management
  • turning ambiguity into clear strategy
  • priorities and execution plans
  • strong technical foundation
  • backend systems
  • client applications
  • data platforms
  • building inclusive, high-performing teams
  • developing managers and senior engineers
  • calm and structured in high-pressure situations
  • managing competing priorities
  • guiding teams through critical decisions
  • operating in environments with high data scale
  • translating complex data into meaningful user experiences
  • building products that serve creators, artists, or similar user communities

Nice to have

  • Spotify for Artists platform
  • Marquee
  • Showcase
  • Discovery Mode

What the JD emphasized

  • significant experience in engineering leadership, including managing managers
  • led multiple teams or orgs simultaneously
  • setting direction through other leaders
  • navigate organizational complexity
  • strong technical foundation
  • building inclusive, high-performing teams
  • track record of developing managers and senior engineers
  • calm and structured in high-pressure situations
  • manage competing priorities
  • guide teams through critical decisions
  • experience operating in environments with high data scale
  • translate complex data into meaningful user experiences
  • building products that serve creators, artists, or similar user communities