Partnership Manager - Backstage

Job Description

The Platform team creates the technology that enables Spotify to learn quickly and scale easily, enabling rapid growth in our users and our business around the globe. Spanning many disciplines, we work to make the business work; creating the frameworks, capabilities and tools needed to welcome a billion customers. Join us and help to amplify productivity, quality and innovation across Spotify.

We are seeking a Partnerships Manager for a high paced team of engineers, marketers, business developers, and product managers (like a small startup) to test an entirely new technology-focused business line and distribution channel that seeks to meaningfully improve Spotify gross margin. We're looking for ways to turbocharge the adoption of an already successful open source project and explore then scale outstanding commercial models!We all wear multiple hats, but it's likely your role will span handling partner relationships and influencing our investment direction. We want someone who can identify strategic partnerships that will drive significant adoption across Backstage, all while collaborating with multiple teams across Spotify. Join us if you are passionate about this type of environment!
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What You'll Do
• Develop a partnerships pipeline and cultivate mutually-beneficial relationships across the Backstage ecosystem (e.g. adopters, cloud providers, vendors)
• Build out partnership frameworks for open source and commercial that reflects the team's strategy and aligns with long-term objectives
• Collaborate with product to define partnership strategies that can drive Backstage adoption
• Evaluate partner programs and engage with high-impact opportunities
• Understand and communicate market opportunities, trends, needs, and partner feedback to cross-functional teams
• Work closely with internal departments like Finance, Accounting, and Legal to lead and maintain partner account

Who You Are
• Minimum of 5+ years focused in partnerships, strategy or business development
• Experience building partner funnels and tracking within CRM systems
• Passion about Backstage and/or commercializing open-source software
• Strong product partnership, with comfort navigating basic technical feasibility of Backstage integrations
• Experience developing first-of-kind, strategic deals which are creative and align business incentives
• You have the ability to work independently to initiate and maintain relationships and assess partnership viability and growth opportunities
• Experience working in SaaS preferred (ideally around open source)

Where You'll Be
• We are a distributed workforce enabling our band members to find a work mode that is best for them!
• Where in the world? For this role, it can be within the Americas region in which we have a work location and is within working hours:https://lifeatspotify.com/locations
• Working hours? We operate within the Eastern Standard time zone for collaboration and ask that all be located in that time zone.
• Prefer an office to work from home instead? Not a problem! We have plenty of options for your working preferences. Find more information about our Work From Anywhere options here.

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The United States base range for this position is $138,270-$197,530, plus equity. The benefits available for this position include health insurance, six month of paid parental leave, 401(k) retirement plan, monthly meal allowance, 23 paid days off, 13 paid flexible holidays. These ranges may be modified in the future.

Spotify transformed music listening forever when we launched in 2008. Our mission is to unlock the potential of human creativity by giving a million creative artists the opportunity to live off their art and billions of fans the chance to enjoy and be passionate about these creators. Everything we do is driven by our love for music and podcasting. Today, we are the world's most popular audio streaming subscription service.

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