--- title: 'Engineering Manager - Social Listening at Spotify' canonical: 'https://feeny.ai/job/engineering-manager-social-listening-spotify-stockholm-w6nfnew5kmyr' type: 'job' last_seen: '2026-09-12' --- # Engineering Manager - Social Listening at Spotify - **Company:** Spotify - **Location:** Stockholm, Sweden - **Work type:** hybrid - **Posted:** 2026-04-29 - **Last confirmed live:** 2026-09-12 - **Apply:** https://jobs.lever.co/spotify/b12565d7-30fb-4eee-84df-9ea90da70174 ## Job description We design Spotify’s consumer experience—end to end, moment to moment, across every screen, platform, and partner integration. Our mission is to make listening feel effortless, personal, and joyful for billions of users around the world. That means turning complexity into clarity across hundreds of touchpoints—from our mobile and desktop apps to the smart speakers, TVs, cars, and integrations where Spotify shows up every day. If it touches a consumer, we shape it. We bring deep insight into human behavior, design, and technology to craft experiences that feel intuitive, expressive, and unmistakably Spotify. We’re building one of Spotify’s most social and engaging experiences: Jam. Jam brings people together through music, enabling friends and groups to listen in real time, wherever they are. It transforms listening from a solo activity into a shared experience and plays an important role in how Spotify connects users through audio. You’ll join a cross-functional team working across mobile, backend, and platform technologies to shape how millions of people experience music together. ## What You'll Do - Lead, support, and grow a team of engineers across iOS, Android, backend, and cross-platform technologies - Drive delivery of features that power real-time, shared listening experiences - Collaborate closely with Product, Design, and Engineering leaders to shape vision, strategy, and roadmaps - Guide the team through complex technical challenges such as real-time synchronization, device connectivity, and cross-platform consistency - Enable high-quality, reliable user experiences across devices and platforms - Foster a culture of ownership, continuous improvement, and strong engineering practices - Create an inclusive and healthy team environment where individuals can grow and do their best work ## Who You Are - You have experience leading and developing engineering teams, including hiring, coaching, and performance management - You are experienced with building and scaling complex systems, ideally in real-time or distributed environments - You have a strong understanding of software engineering across mobile and backend technologies - You care about building inclusive, collaborative teams and creating a positive team environment - You are comfortable working across disciplines and influencing product and technical direction - You balance execution with long-term thinking and make thoughtful, pragmatic decisions - You have experience solving challenges related to synchronization, connectivity, or cross-platform development Where You'll Be - This role is based in London or 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. ## 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 - [Staff Machine Learning Engineer, Home Surfaces](https://feeny.ai/job/staff-machine-learning-engineer-home-surfaces-spotify-new-york-0xk0vnrbemss) — New York, NY - [Data Scientist - Music Promotion](https://feeny.ai/job/data-scientist-music-promotion-spotify-new-york-pnd0myhqwkq7) — New York, NY - [Policy Support Specialist, Ads & Monetization Ops](https://feeny.ai/job/policy-support-specialist-ads-monetization-ops-spotify-san-francisco-a6psfs5nswkf) — San Francisco, CA - [Director of Engineering - Content Platform (Catalog)](https://feeny.ai/job/director-of-engineering-content-platform-catalog-spotify-london-sedkq85sfk5h) — London, United Kingdom - [Senior Product Manager - Subscriptions](https://feeny.ai/job/senior-product-manager-subscriptions-spotify-london-2sm0fmcd2jps) — London, United Kingdom - [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