Project Manager - Partner Go-To-Market

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 better understand, build, and engage their music audience 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, 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, constantly striving to improve processes and ways of working.
• Depending on the setting, assume different project roles—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, and familiarity with models, methods, and frameworks to do so efficiently.
• Proven ability to influence others, adapt skillsets, and apply experience in different ways as required by the situation.
• Experience driving change and impact in a rapidly changing environment, and interfacing with stakeholders across different disciplines and time zones.
• Highly analytical with experience sourcing and interpreting data, and confident in making decisions based on data.
• Strong storytelling skills to share information in an inspiring, coherent, and compelling way.
• Ability to build relationships and instill trust in others.
• Ability to translate business requirements into technical requirements and communicate clearly at all levels.
• Curiosity and tenacity in attacking unfamiliar problems, with a great appetite for learning.
• Genuine interest in the music industry, streaming mechanics, and the impact on the creator community.

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

• Relevant work history of 3+ years in strategy or operations roles in 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