Overview

Spotify is looking for an experienced technologist to help drive the future of our advertising and promotions platform with advanced data solutions. You will lead the technology vision in this domain, tackling complex data-related problems leveraging some of the most diverse datasets available — user behaviors, acoustical analysis, cultural and contextual data, and signal across our broad range of mobile and connected platforms. You will work with senior stakeholders in technology and business domains to articulate and attack compelling commercial opportunities for advertisers and amazing experiences for users. You will lead a team of world-class engineers and data practitioners to bring solutions to the infrastructure and to our customers.

In this role, you will not only work on the world’s leading online music service, but you’ll also make a direct and tangible impact on the business by building the future of our music promotion and advertising capabilities. We are driven by the core idea that we can help brands to participate in the Spotify experience in a way that improves it for our end users. The technical complexity involved in truly delivering on that mission should be something you are excited to tackle. You will impact revenue significantly and visibly, and help grow our amazing team every single day.

Spotify’s culture puts the power in the hands of the individual. As a technology leader, you should thrive in a meritocratic environment with a focus on autonomy, flat structures, and servant leadership. Depending on your background and personal interests, this position may have significant management responsibility as well as hands-on technology leadership.

Requirements:

You are personally fluent in multiple programming languages, stacks, and frameworks

You have a deep background in applying multiple disciplines in the data science domain to practical commercial problems, including specific advertising solutions

You are fluent processing and analyzing large data sets using a variety of production-class tools

You have deployed solutions at Internet-scale, and have worked with RTB

You have a track record of leading others in this domain

You care, are passionate about what you do, and others know this

Responsibilities:

Drive the optimization and analysis agenda of the core promotional and advertising platform

Lead the engineering of a continuous design, development, and testing lifecycle for data-driven solutions to practical problems, both well-defined and open-ended

Devise measurement approaches and leverage these to evaluate performance continuously

Leverage a wide array of data processing infrastructure technologies (batch and real-time) in your work, and work with others across the organization to steward overall data infrastructure strategy

Span hands-on technologies as needed, depending on the data processing framework in use

Collaborative with software engineers, ML experts, and others, taking and creating learning and leadership opportunities every single day

Foster highly-dynamic cross-functional agile teams and leverage lightweight processes to deliver on new product objectives