Project Manager - Music Product Specialist

About the Role

Key Responsibilities

• Manage stakeholder relationships and strategic projects in collaboration with the Music Team, R D, and Product Marketing.
• Help artists better build audience & express themselves on Spotify, while evolving the listener experience.
• Drive new product initiatives from concept to rollout, helping early stage products find product-market fit through close partnership with music industry partners.
• Provide strategic advice and guidance for cross-functional workstreams related to the artist and listener experiences alongside key stakeholders.
• Ensure Music Team alignment with product roadmap and funded initiatives.
• Recommend and operationalize recruitment strategy and communications for product pilots - connecting product to both internal and external subject matter experts.
• Build systems for managing partner relationships and collecting feedback in partnership with User Research.
• Ensure partner adoption goals are met.
• Translate technical product solutions into clear and concise narratives for Spotify's partner facing teams in partnership with Product Marketing.
• Run effective meetings, remove blockers, and hold workgroup members accountable for their action items.
• Strive to improve processes and ways of working to increase team efficiency and impact.
• Assume different project roles depending on the setting - sometimes leading, sometimes supporting.

Requirements

• 3+ years related experience in a strategy or operations role in music, media, or entertainment, from a consultancy firm, or from another complex business setting.
• Experience managing cross-functional projects from start to finish using models, methods, and frameworks.
• Proven ability to influence others, adapt skills, and apply experience in different situations.
• Experience driving change and impact in a rapidly changing environment and interfacing with stakeholders across disciplines and time zones.
• Highly analytical with experience sourcing and interpreting data, and confident in decision-making based on data.
• Excellent storytelling skills to share information in an inspiring, coherent, and compelling way.
• Strong individual contributor with the ability to build relationships and trust.
• Ability to translate business requirements into technical requirements and communicate effectively at all levels.
• Curiosity and tenacity in tackling unfamiliar problems, with a strong appetite for learning.
• Genuine interest in the music industry, streaming mechanics, and creator community.

Nice to Have

• Experience working in the music industry or with music products.
• Familiarity with product development and go-to-market strategies in tech or entertainment sectors.

Qualifications

• Relevant work experience of 3+ years in strategy or operations roles related to music, media, or entertainment.

Benefits & Perks

• Health insurance
• Six month paid parental leave
• 401(k) retirement plan
• Monthly meal allowance
• 23 paid days off
• 13 paid flexible holidays
• Position salary range of $75,737 - 108,196 plus equity
• Flexible work location with in-person meetings approximately 3 times per week