Jobs at Spotify

Design and build scalable backend systems for Spotify’s commerce platform, supporting purchases, billing, invoicing, receipts, and payments. Develop high-scale distributed services and data pipelines, improve performance, reliability, and observability, and contribute to architecture decisions. Collaborate with engineering, product, and data teams, participate in code reviews and technical discussions, and modernize legacy systems while maintaining stability.

Leads multiple engineering teams and sets technical strategy for Spotify’s content catalog platform. Oversees scalable distributed systems, legacy modernization, reliability, content quality, automation, and AI initiatives. Partners with product and business leaders to execute long-term roadmaps, improve content availability, and reduce operational friction. Builds inclusive engineering culture, develops engineering managers, and drives alignment across distributed teams and locations.

Lead end-to-end product design for Spotify’s subscriptions experience, from exploration and prototyping through launch and iteration. Partner with product, engineering, research, data, and design teams to solve complex user and business problems, use qualitative and quantitative insights, shape product direction, and deliver intuitive digital experiences. Communicate design rationale, build alignment, contribute to design quality, and support Spotify’s broader design community.

Own the strategy and roadmap for converting free users into Spotify Premium subscribers. Lead consumer-facing feature development, experimentation, funnel optimization, and global rollouts across markets. Use behavioral, cohort, and market data to define hypotheses, metrics, and priorities. Partner with design, engineering, marketing, research, data science, and regional teams to improve awareness, acquisition, activation, and conversion while balancing user value, revenue, and operational complexity.

Lead product strategy and end-to-end experience for Spotify audiobooks across mobile apps, from discovery and evaluation through playback, library management, and reading. Partner with Audiobooks, Engineering, Design, Data, Personalization, and other teams to deliver scalable consumer experiences. Use experimentation, data, and user insights to guide decisions, align stakeholders, and drive innovation across listening and reading experiences.

Lead product data science analyses across user behavior and content data to guide product and strategy decisions. Design evaluation frameworks for content classification, taxonomy, safety, and annotation-based measurement. Build scalable metrics, dashboards, reliable analytical datasets, self-serve tools, and data agents. Partner with Product, Engineering, and Operations leaders, while providing methodological leadership, mentorship, and analytical standards across the team.

Develop and maintain Spotify’s native C++ desktop application across macOS and Windows. Build native container capabilities, operating-system integrations, backend services, release tooling, packaging, CI configurations, and delivery pipelines. Collaborate with platform partners and distributed engineering teams, while exploring AI agent integrations for the desktop experience.

Develop and evaluate Spotify subscription propositions across high-growth markets. Build business cases covering opportunity sizing, unit economics, margins, licensing, currency, and cannibalization. Partner with Finance, Product, Legal, Strategy, and market teams to turn ambiguous opportunities into executive-ready recommendations and inform the proposition roadmap.

Analyze Spotify’s planning and execution data to develop hypotheses, statistical and machine learning models, data pipelines, dashboards, and actionable recommendations. The role translates complex operational and strategic information into narratives, reports, and decision frameworks for leaders. It also explores AI and automation for faster insight generation and collaborates with data scientists, engineers, product managers, and business partners across the company.

Lead and grow a distributed team of engineers building Spotify’s experimentation SaaS platform. Responsibilities include hiring, coaching, career development, delivery quality, product prioritization, technical strategy, collaboration with product managers and Staff Engineers, and occasional hands-on engineering. The role is based in Stockholm with hybrid flexibility.

Lead Spotify’s UK programmatic advertising sales strategy across audio, video, and display. Grow revenue through DSP, agency, trading desk, and demand-partner relationships; drive strategic pitches, pipeline development, negotiations, forecasting, and quarterly goal attainment. Serve as the programmatic subject-matter expert, support and educate the broader sales team, co-sell with leadership, and represent Spotify at industry events.

Architect, develop, and operate scalable Java backend services supporting subscription conversion, retention, upsells, and personalized user journeys. Design cloud-native systems, data models, and APIs on Google Cloud Platform; collaborate with product, marketing, growth, and engineering teams; mentor colleagues; and lead complex platform initiatives involving automation, content management, machine learning, and high-volume distributed services.

Design and build the C++ integration layer for TV audio/video playback, integrate with native media frameworks (AVPlayer/ExoPlayer), own buffering/ABR/A-V sync, debug performance across OS and hardware, improve tooling and observability, and collaborate with platform and device teams to raise playback quality.

Build end-to-end internal products and platform services for Spotify's subscription business, spanning frontend (TypeScript/React/Next.js), backend services (Java), GraphQL/gRPC APIs, and PostgreSQL. Design secure, auditable, SOX-compliant workflows, collaborate on architecture, write well-tested code, and participate in on-call rotations to ensure platform reliability.

Build and support large-scale data infrastructure and datasets for Spotify’s user behavior data. Design data architectures, develop collection and processing systems, and improve reliability, scalability, and usability. The role supports personalization, recommendation systems, and internal data teams while requiring collaboration across product and engineering disciplines.

Design and ship machine learning models for optimizing messaging on multiple channels, focusing on long-term user outcomes and experimentation.

Define and own the quality bar for Spotify's AI voice models by designing evaluation rubrics, running qualitative and MOS-style campaigns, benchmarking against competitors, and turning findings into actionable recommendations for product, production, and ML teams.

Join the Baldur squad to design and build Spotify's delegated authorization and session management systems. Develop secure, cross-platform C++ libraries and native iOS Swift components for token issuance, refresh, revocation, and on-device credential storage, collaborating with client and backend teams to scale OAuth 2.0 infrastructure used by millions.

Lead a six-person engineering team owning event delivery and data pseudonymisation platforms. Set technical direction, ensure reliable delivery and on-call health, partner with product and stakeholders on roadmap, drive architecture, hire and grow engineers, and foster a culture of ownership and inclusion.

The Senior Product Manager will lead product strategy for Spotify's tax technology, collaborating with finance and engineering to enhance operational efficiency, compliance, and product delivery.