The Platform team creates the technology that enables Spotify to learn quickly and scale easily, enabling rapid growth in our users and our business around the globe. Spanning many disciplines, we work to make the business work; creating the frameworks, capabilities and tools needed to welcome a billion customers. Join us and help to amplify productivity, quality and innovation across Spotify.
Are you looking to make a significant impact on how Spotifiers work and partner with industry leading cloud providers?
Part of Spotify’s Technology Procurement team, the Vendor Management Office consists of vendor program managers that help Spotify engineers adapt quickly and thrive. Members of the VMO implement and maintain some of the most complex global engagements around the world. Your role will be to connect our technology strategy to the commercial and financial aspects of these partnerships together with a diverse group of technical collaborators. You will be involved across the entire lifecycle of these relationships from strategy to prioritization, governance, and, finally, public celebration of joint successes.
What You’ll Do
- Foster cloud vendor relationships at an enterprise level, with the goal to create and maintain mutually beneficial, healthy partnerships
- Connect and facilitate knowledge exchange, action plans, and delivery between the Spotify engineering organization and the engineering organization from our partners
- Articulate technology infrastructure strategy working with Spotify’s engineering organization with strategic partners
- Work with our strategic vendors to coordinate proactive communications, QBRs, SPRs, and relationship management to set and update goals in the partnership
- Experience defining projects, identifying risks, managing cost, coordinating scope, identifying dependencies, and supporting the deployment of new products and feature development.
- Support key partners and business leads in Cloud operations (e.g., launch/capacity planning) and technical support.
Who You Are
- Confirmed experience in managing sophisticated and complicated vendors ranging from start-ups to large enterprises
- Ability to articulate value from strategic technology choices in a crisp focused manner both to our own engineering organization and to our partners
- Interpersonal skills to build relationships between engineering organizations that are characterized by a high degree of transparency and trust
- Familiarity with commercial negotiations and their interplay with strategic technology choices.
- Knowledge and experience participating in engineering discussions that tackle concerns and provide solutions across multiple, global vendors
Where You’ll Be
- We are a distributed workforce enabling our band members to find a work mode that is best for them
- Where in the world? For this role, it can be within the Americas region in which we have a work location and is within working hours.
- Working hours? We operate within the Eastern Standard Time zone for collaboration and ask that all team members be located in that time zone.
- Prefer an office to work from home instead? Not a problem! We have plenty of options for your working preferences. Find more information about our Work From Anywhere options here.
The United States base range for this position is $145 653 – $208 076,00 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, 13 paid flexible holidays. 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.
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 chance to enjoy and be passionate about 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.