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, focusing on helping artists build audiences and 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 internal and external subject matter experts.
• Build systems for managing partner relationships and collecting feedback in partnership with User Research, ensuring 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, continuously improving processes and ways of working.
• Depending on the setting, assume different project roles—sometimes leading, sometimes supporting.

Requirements

• 3+ years of related experience in a strategy or operations role in music, media, or entertainment, from a consultancy firm or another complex business setting.
• Experience managing cross-functional projects from start to finish using models, methods, and frameworks.
• Proven ability to influence others, adapt skillsets, and apply experience in different ways as required.
• 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 instill trust.
• Ability to translate business requirements into technical requirements and communicate clearly at all levels.
• Curious and tenacious in tackling unfamiliar problems, with a strong appetite for learning.
• Genuine interest in the music industry, streaming mechanics, and their impact on creators.

Nice to Have

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

Qualifications

• Educational background is not explicitly specified, but relevant experience is emphasized.

Benefits & Perks

• Health insurance
• Six month paid parental leave
• 401(k) retirement plan
• Monthly meal allowance
• 23 paid days off
• 13 paid flexible holidays
• Flexible work location with in-person meetings three times per week