--- title: 'Talent Acquisition Lead at Spotify' canonical: 'https://feeny.ai/job/talent-acquisition-lead-spotify-singapore-12xvv8epn405' type: 'job' last_seen: '2026-09-07' --- # Talent Acquisition Lead at Spotify - **Company:** Spotify - **Location:** Singapore - **Work type:** onsite - **Posted:** 2026-09-04 - **Last confirmed live:** 2026-09-07 - **Apply:** https://jobs.lever.co/spotify/9e8b3af7-d0f7-4aa9-ab8d-89b5bd238ccf ## Job description Join Spotify’s Talent Acquisition team and help us find and engage the people who will shape what comes next. As a Talent Acquisition Lead, you’ll partner closely with leaders and teams across JAPAC & SAMEA to understand their talent needs, proactively build thoughtful hiring strategies, and create an engaging experience for candidates and internal partners. You’ll be a trusted talent partner to the business, bringing strong stakeholder management, recruiting expertise, mentorship and market insight to hiring decisions. You’ll balance strategic partnership with hands-on execution, helping teams make clear, informed decisions while keeping the candidate experience at the heart of what we do. ## What You'll Do - Partner closely with hiring managers and senior stakeholders to understand their business priorities and translate them into effective hiring strategies. - Build trusted relationships with stakeholders, using data, market knowledge, and sound judgment to influence hiring decisions. - Advise hiring teams on talent mapping, market dynamics, candidate expectations, and recruiting best practices. - Create an inclusive, consistent, and engaging candidate experience throughout the recruitment journey. - Use recruiting data and insights to proactively identify opportunities, measure progress, and continuously improve how we hire. - Manage recruiters across the JAPAC/SAMEA Talent Acquisition team, sharing expertise, providing coaching, and helping raise the bar for how we work together. - Collaborate with global Talent Acquisition colleagues and cross-functional partners across Spotify, sharing knowledge and contributing to broader talent initiatives. - Own end-to-end recruitment for roles across your area, from intake and talent mapping through interviews, offer, and close. ## Who You Are - You have experience managing end-to-end recruitment in a fast-moving, complex organization. - You build trusted relationships with hiring managers and senior stakeholders and are comfortable constructively challenging thinking and processes when it leads to better hiring decisions. - You can translate business priorities into clear and practical talent strategies. - You communicate with clarity and empathy and can adapt your approach to different audiences and situations. - You know how to manage competing priorities while maintaining a thoughtful and high-quality stakeholder experience. - You use data, market insight, and human judgment to anticipate needs, inform decisions and influence. - You care deeply about equitable and inclusive hiring and look for ways to build fairness into recruiting processes. - You are collaborative, curious, and comfortable navigating change and ambiguity. Where You'll Be - This role is based in Singapore. - We offer you the flexibility to work where you work best ! There will be some in-person meetings but it still allows for flexibility to work from home. We ask that you come to the office 3 times per week. ## 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 - [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 - [Engineering Manager - Experimentation](https://feeny.ai/job/engineering-manager-experimentation-spotify-london-wrt5th6mc3qz) — 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