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Senior Engineering Manager

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In short

Spotify is seeking an experienced Senior Engineering Manager to lead a group of Engineering Managers and engineers in their IT Studio. The role involves setting engineering strategy, improving technical practices, and partnering with product leadership to align investments with business priorities in London or Stockholm.

Responsibilities

  • Lead and develop Engineering Managers across multiple teams, supporting their growth and creating clarity around outcomes and engineering excellence.
  • Set and communicate engineering strategy across the studio, ensuring teams have clear technical direction aligned with IT’s mandate and Spotify’s business needs.
  • Strengthen technical judgment across the Engineering Manager group, challenging processes and creating more space for architecture, quality, and team capability.
  • Identify patterns and opportunities across teams to drive improvements in engineering practice, operational health, reliability, and ways of working.
  • Establish and evolve engineering best practices across the studio, helping teams share knowledge and consistently improve how technology is built and operated.
  • Champion reliability, security, compliance, and privacy as fundamental parts of engineering decision-making.
  • Shape how AI is used across the company, both through the tools our squads build and how our engineers work day to day.
  • Partner with studio and alliance leadership, procurement, legal, engineering counterparts, and teams across Spotify to make thoughtful technical investments and solve meaningful business problems.

Requirements

  • 8+ years of engineering experience.
  • Experience leading Engineering Managers across multiple teams.
  • Experience leading engineering organisations at scale and demonstrating how technical strategies have influenced meaningful outcomes.
  • Experience with enterprise technology such as identity and access, SaaS platforms, endpoint management, workplace technology, architecture, or related systems.
  • Experience improving engineering practices across multiple teams, balancing developer productivity, operational excellence, reliability, and sustainable technical investment.
  • Experience developing Engineering Managers into stronger leaders with meaningful growth and progression within their teams.
  • Practical experience applying AI tooling or related technologies.
  • Focus performance conversations on impact rather than activity and assess contributions across teams producing different kinds of outcomes.
  • Strategic thinker capable of setting direction across a broad organization.
  • Ability to communicate complex technical and strategic ideas clearly.
  • Ability to build inclusion into leadership style.
  • Ability to make thoughtful decisions when working through ambiguity.

Benefits

  • Extensive learning opportunities through our dedicated team, GreenHouse.
  • Flexible share incentives.
  • Global parental leave, six months off for all new parents.
  • All The Feels, our employee assistance program and self-care hub.
  • Flexible public holidays, swap days off according to your values and beliefs.
#IT Studio#Platform team#Endpoint and device management#Identity and access#Networking and connectivity#IT service management#Audio visual#Productivity and collaboration platforms#Work management tooling#AI tools
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Company

Spotify

Job Posted

1 day ago

Employment Type

Full Time

WorkMode

Hybrid

Experience Level

Senior

Locations

London, United Kingdom

Stockholm, Sweden

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