Product Director - Growth Opportunities

Job Description

The Freemium R&D team oversees the entire user journey on Spotify and ensures we engage with people in innovative ways, every step of the way. Our team grows Spotify's audience by finding future listeners around the world and delivering the right value to them, at the right time. With research, product development, product design, engineering, and marketing all collaborating in one organization, we're able to quickly create meaningful features and services for millions of people around the world, resulting in joyful, long-lasting relationships with Spotify.

We are looking for a creative, entrepreneurial, and impact focused Product Director to join a Product Area in our Freemium Mission. This position will lead the product function for a team that focuses on user growth through delightful and interactive experiences that celebrate the Spotify brand, product, and content. Our current hero product is the consumer experience for Spotify's Wrapped 'Year in Review' campaign.

As a Product Director, you will set the long term vision and manage the Product team responsible for the execution of that vision. We are experts in ''0 to 1'' innovation and looking for a leader who thrives when navigating and leading product innovation in an ambiguous space. Our process is thoughtful, fast-paced, and impactful, but most importantly, it's people-first. We empower our people to be fearless explorers, agile innovators, and caring colleagues. And as a result, we're really good at what we do.
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What You'll Do
• Define and drive product vision, strategy and metrics for the overall organization and support Product Managers on your team in doing the same for their teams.
• Look for new growth opportunities for Spotify beyond the boundaries of your current strategy.
• Partner with Engineering, Design, and Insights leaders to foster a team ethos of impact, performance, happiness, and health.
• Ensure your team is focusing on the right things, balancing short versus long term needs.
• Lead and grow an outstanding product team.
• Develop strong relationships with senior leaders and partners across the organization, effectively gaining endorsement of strategy.
• Work from our office in New York or Remote EST

Who You Are
• Ideally 10+ years experience delivering highly successful and innovative software products.
• 2+ years of direct managerial experience, hiring and growing Product Managers.
• Previous experience conceptualizing, building, shipping and operating consumer products.
• You are a veteran user of data to make decisions.
• You have a proven track record of helping inform strategic business decisions.
• You have a multi-year track record of efficiently partnering with cross-functional stakeholders.
• You have broad technical breadth and depth.
• You have got a strong intuition based on a broad range of experiences, but you take a critical thinker even to your own ideas and are ready to be challenged by colleagues of all levels
• You have earned the respect of your Engineering, Design, Insights, and Business partners, as shown in your 360 feedback.

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.
• 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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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.

Jobcode: Reference SBJ-g326xq-18-221-235-209-42 in your application.