Leads global markets strategy for a consumer technology business, partnering with regional market leaders to develop strategies, three-year visions, prioritization, budgets, and growth plans. Performs financial analysis and modeling of regional dynamics, competitors, and peers. Drives cross-regional strategic projects, informs product go-to-market decisions, and aligns teams around company priorities. Requires strong strategic thinking, project management, quantitative analysis, business judgment, and global cross-functional collaboration.
The Lead, Global Markets Strategy is a role on the Global Markets Strategy (“GMS”) team, to be based in New York, reporting to the Director of Global Markets Strategy. This role is designed to have a strategic and analytical focus on our multi-year growth journey in our Markets.
What You Will Do
- Partner with regional Market MDs and GMs on strategy formulation, feedback, and refinement of regional strategies and plans, including annual strategies, GM 3-year visions, and market landscape assessments
- Attend and play an active role in relevant M&S Growth Region QBR meetings
- Collaborate with GMS team members on key strategic deliverables including annual M&S market prioritization and budgeting
- Drive critical financial analysis alongside FP&A to deepen understanding of regional financial dynamics and continued profitable growth
- Build financial models to analyze growth and business dynamics of key competitors and peers in consumer tech, informing and improving user, subscriber, and revenue growth strategies
- Lead and collaborate on key regional or cross-regional strategic and analytical projects with market GMs, MDs, and their MSOs
- Maintain familiarity with the strategic pillars and key scope elements of company bets driven by Subs and other Missions, surfacing implications and decision points for Markets
- Identify and influence key bet teams to advance Markets goals, including go-to-market on key product features
Who You Are
- You have 8+ years of experience working at a tech company, management consultancy, or similar organization
- You have extensive experience and expertise in growing consumer tech businesses in a global context
- You hold an undergraduate degree, ideally in a quantitative major; a Master's degree or MBA is a plus
- You have experience collaborating with colleagues across differing functions, levels of seniority, and across countries and time zones to craft and execute successful business strategies
- You have significant experience working in high-growth, dynamic organizations with a demonstrated ability to drive results
- You are an organized, process-driven strategic thinker with strong project management skills
- You are perceptive and proactive about improving how teams work together, with experience identifying cross-functional business opportunities and developing working models in complex environments
- You have proven results demonstrating thought leadership and business judgment, and communicating rigorous analysis and insights with simplicity, clarity, and confidence
- You learn new concepts, technologies, and businesses quickly and produce quality work in short timeframes
Where You'll Be
We offer you the flexibility to work where you work best! For this role, you will be based in New york. This team operates within the Eastern Standard time zone for collaboration.
The United States base range for this position is $146,891- $183,614 USD, plus equity. The benefits available for this position include health insurance, six-month paid parental leave, 401(k) retirement plan, monthly meal allowance, 23 paid days off, paid flexible holidays, and paid sick leave. These ranges may be modified in the future.
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.
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