--- title: 'Engineering Manager - Experimentation at Spotify' canonical: 'https://feeny.ai/job/engineering-manager-experimentation-spotify-london-wrt5th6mc3qz' type: 'job' last_seen: '2026-09-07' --- # Engineering Manager - Experimentation at Spotify - **Company:** Spotify - **Location:** London, United Kingdom - **Work type:** remote - **Posted:** 2026-09-01 - **Last confirmed live:** 2026-09-07 - **Apply:** https://jobs.lever.co/spotify/9d0ac2f3-1bef-4e8d-a3cb-a3c855d2b2bd ## Job description Think it, build it, ship it, tweak it" is at the core of Spotify's product development approach. In the Experimentation product area we are providing Spotify and external customers with Confidence, our platform to quickly and safely iterate through ideas, learn from them and make informed decisions for better products. At Spotify, experimentation touches almost all of our functions from marketing via content management to consumer products, and we’re running several thousands of tests every year. Through confidence, we 're sharing all our findings and practices with more companies as a commercial SaaS product. The team you will manage is a skilled and highly engaged group of engineers that are distributed over Europe. As an Engineering manager, you will coach them individually and as a team, maintaining their strong team culture and helping them thrive and and grow. Your technical experience provides mentorship and guidelines to the team, which ensures quality and timeliness of your deliveries. Your leadership promotes creativity, collaboration and courage, which forms a kind and productive team with a high bar for quality and pace of delivery. ## What You’ll Do - You will hire, coach and develop the careers of a team of engineers. - You will be responsible for high-quality deliveries. - You will partner with product managers to support with prioritizations and product visions. - You will support the engineering team and work with Staff engineers to formulate the technical strategy needed to deliver on our vision. - You will do hands on engineering work from time to time. - In the end, your primary goal is to support a highly effective engineering team delivering an amazing product. ## Who You Are - You thrive when developing great people, not just great products and cultivating a strong engineering culture in an agile environment. - You are skilled in collaborating on and developing distributed systems that can scale to millions of users. - You have experience with data warehouses and data processing at scale. - You have worked on commercial SaaS products in the past and have hands on experience taking features from zero to one. - You are a brave learner and see unfamiliar territories as an opportunity to grow. - You are a senior individual contributor (or has been) with strong people skills and leadership experience. - You’re passionate about software engineering best practices and love to have an impact on large-scale tech problems. - You care deeply about quality of the products your working and, and hold people to a high standard. - Naturally, you harness AI as a tool that helps you be more effective at your work. Where You’ll Be - This role is based in Stockholm. - We offer you the flexibility to work where you work best! There will be some in person meetings, but still allows for flexibility to work from home. Spotify is an equal opportunity employer. You are welcome at Spotify for who you are, no matter where you come from, what you look like, or what’s playing in your headphones. Our platform is for everyone, and so is our workplace. The more voices we have represented and amplified in our business, the more we will all thrive, contribute, and be forward-thinking! So bring us your personal experience, your perspectives, and your background. It’s in our differences that we will find the power to keep revolutionizing the way the world listens. At Spotify, we are passionate about inclusivity and making sure our entire recruitment process is accessible to everyone. We have ways to request reasonable accommodations during the interview process and help assist in what you need. If you need accommodations at any stage of the application or interview process, please let us know - we’re here to support you in any way we can. ## About Spotify ## Company Overview - **One-liner**: Spotify is the world's most popular audio streaming subscription service, connecting users to over 100 million tracks, 7 million podcast titles, and 700,000 audiobooks across 184 markets. - **Entity Type**: Public (NYSE: SPOT) - **Headquarters**: Stockholm, Sweden - **Founded**: 2006 - **Founders**: Daniel Ek and Martin Lorentzon ## Core Business - Primary industry: Audio streaming and digital media - Target customers: B2C (consumers via Free and Premium tiers) and B2B (advertisers, artists, and labels through Spotify Advertising and Spotify for Artists) - Mission: "To deliver creativity to the world—one note, one voice, one idea at a time." ## Products & Services - **Spotify Free**: Ad-supported streaming of music, podcasts, and audiobooks - **Spotify Premium**: Subscription tier with offline mode, improved sound quality, and ad-free listening - **Spotify for Artists**: Analytics, promotion, and monetization tools for creators - **Spotify Advertising**: Programmatic and self-serve ad platform for brands - **Audiobooks**: Catalog of 700,000+ audiobook titles (market entry in 2022) ## Market Standing - **Valuation/Market Cap**: Not disclosed in available sources; stock price reported at USD 391.23 (as of 2024-10-29) - **Key Metric**: Annual Revenue EUR 17.2B; 777 million monthly users including 300 million subscribers (per Spotify Newsroom). Note: LinkedIn company data lists 365M users/165M subscribers — conflicting reports, likely reflecting an older snapshot. - **Notable Investors/Partners**: Series A of USD 21.6M with 5 investors (2008); debt financing of USD 1.0B (2016); convertible notes in 2016 and 2021. Key acquisitions include Sonantic (2022), Mediachain (2017), and Tunigo (2013). - **Growth Signals**: Headcount grew +14.2% YoY to 8,921 employees; 9 offices across 4 countries; expansion into audiobooks; 300M+ paying subscribers. ## Competitive Advantages - Scale: largest audio streaming subscriber base globally - Data and AI personalization: mature recommendation engines and AI-driven discovery - Multi-format audio ecosystem: music, podcasts, and audiobooks in a single app - Strong brand recognition and deep creator relationships ## Strategic Focus - AI-powered personalization and generative audio tools - Audiobook market expansion - Podcast ecosystem growth - Creator monetization and artist tools ## Why Work Here - Employer rating 4.0/5.0 from 2,155 reviews (Work-Life: 4.2, Compensation: 3.9, Culture: 4.0, Career: 3.5) - **Work ## Other roles at Spotify - [Talent Acquisition Lead](https://feeny.ai/job/talent-acquisition-lead-spotify-singapore-12xvv8epn405) — Singapore - [Senior Product Manager - Audiobooks Format Foundations](https://feeny.ai/job/senior-product-manager-audiobooks-format-foundations-spotify-london-zw5q1r1wtr0q) — London, United Kingdom - [Staff Data Scientist - Experience](https://feeny.ai/job/staff-data-scientist-experience-spotify-stockholm-7taecwqpkhp5) — Stockholm, Sweden - [C++ Engineer - Experience](https://feeny.ai/job/c-engineer-experience-spotify-stockholm-gz7bg2y4csyy) — Stockholm, Sweden - [Manager, Proposition Strategy](https://feeny.ai/job/manager-proposition-strategy-spotify-new-york-hg1v4dt60pvz) — New York, NY - [Social Media Manager, Campaigns & Platform Strategy](https://feeny.ai/job/social-media-manager-campaigns-platform-strategy-spotify-new-york-85n7jmvre48j) — New York, NY - [Product Manager - Customer Service Platform](https://feeny.ai/job/product-manager-customer-service-platform-spotify-london-vg49ft635gk3) — London, United Kingdom - [Senior Machine Learning Engineer - Artist-First AI Music Lab](https://feeny.ai/job/senior-machine-learning-engineer-artist-first-ai-music-lab-spotify-new-york-3878mpf4eh5h) — New York, NY - [Lead, Global Markets Strategy](https://feeny.ai/job/lead-global-markets-strategy-spotify-new-york-bbvadsavxqdz) — New York, NY - [Senior Product Designer - Platform and Partner Experience](https://feeny.ai/job/senior-product-designer-platform-and-partner-experience-spotify-london-htgkdv05ayvj) — London, United Kingdom