About the Podcaster mission 

Spotify is a global community of over 250 million music fans and artists, and now podcasters. It’s always been our mission to make audio more accessible, and create a new and wonderful way for creators and fans to connect with each other.

The Podcaster Mission is the team within Spotify responsible for building the best tools for podcast creators. We have two platforms that help us do that: Anchor (the platform that allows you to create, distribute, monetize, and grow a podcast, all for free) and Spotify for Podcasters (the platform that makes it easy to understand and engage with your listeners on Spotify).

We’ve done a lot already, and we have no plans of slowing down. Come help us build the future of podcasting!

What you'll do

• We are looking for a passionate and experienced product leader to manage a team of Product Managers responsible for executing on the Anchor platform (which encompasses podcaster tools in both Anchor and Spotify). Working cross-functionally with engineering, design, insights, and marketing, your team will be responsible for building and releasing high impact projects to help us hit aggressive goals.

This role reports into our Head of R&D, and will initially include 3-5 direct reports.

In this role, you will:

• Grow and oversee a team of Product Managers across different skill levels and domains
• Mentor our most junior PMs (those with
• Partner with Engineering, Design, and Insights leaders to foster a team culture of impact, performance, and happiness
• Ensure your team is focusing on the right things, balancing quality vs speed and short vs long term needs
• Help drive and organize collaboration between Anchor PMs and PMs on different teams within Spotify
• Coordinate with our Engineering Managers to plan sprints and prioritize work for our R&D team

Who you are

• You have 5+ years experience delivering highly successful, innovative, consumer-facing software products on web and native mobile (and ideally some managerial experience)
• You have a multi-year track record of efficiently partnering with cross-functional stakeholders
• You are a highly collaborative leader that is capable of formulating and advocating for product vision and strategy and working cross-functionally to deliver on that roadmap
• You are passionate about hiring, coaching, and leading a diverse and high-performing team of product managers
• You are an effective, purposeful, and concise communicator, and know how to influence and manage a large list of stakeholders with conflicting and competing priorities
• You are organized and results-driven, can manage multiple projects extending across many teams, stick to realistic deadlines, and push back when necessary
• You are an exceptional communicator, comfortable with both writing and presenting to get your ideas heard and get buy-in from a variety of stakeholders
• You are collaborative, and able to both give and receive direct feedback to help things progress efficiently
• You are creative in all the right ways. You’re bursting with unconventional ideas, and not afraid to give them all a try… but you also know how to balance those fun ideas with reality, resources, and business needs
• You are all about execution. You have a proven ability to efficiently and confidently execute, deliver, and iterate
• You have a sense of humor and don’t take yourself too seriously
• You are a fan of podcasts! Bonus points if you’ve worked with audio in the past, whether professionally or as a personal project (podcasting, music discovery/recommendations, etc)

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 brilliant. 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.

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 opportunity to enjoy and be inspired by 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 with a community of more than 271 million users.