
Associate Director, Audiobooks Strategy – Growth
Spotify
full-time
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Location Type: Hybrid
Location: New York City • New York • United States
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Salary
💰 $160,147 - $228,781 per year
Job Level
About the role
- Build a roadmap for market and format expansion to capture more of the book industry, evaluating the business impact, prioritize initiatives to invest in, and execute against them. Example projects include:
- - Developing a strategy on how to scale our Audiobooks+ add-on business into a leading subscription product
- - Developing the growth case and strategic roadmap for market expansion - overseeing the project through to completion navigating operational and strategic complexities
- - Developing growth strategies for new Book monetization initiatives, from early concepting through to leadership recommendation and execution
- - Scoping white space opportunities like ad-supported tiers, book clubs, interactive formats and underserved genres
- Become an expert on Audiobooks performance on Spotify and the overall industry - understanding growth trends, market share, business model and overall P&L - ultimately helping to identify and inform key investment areas
- Guide and review analytical work across projects, raising the bar on rigor, clarity, and strategic thinking
- Partner with Product, Consumer Research, Data Science, and Finance to translate insights into clear, actionable strategies
Requirements
- 10+ years of experience in growth and strategy, ideally within technology, subscriptions, media or publishing
- Experienced in evaluating early stage investment bets, developing and launching new business lines and products
- You’re comfortable operating with ambiguity and enjoy shaping new ideas where the path forward isn’t fully defined
- Has strong analytical chops, is experienced with metrics frameworks and grounding recommendations in strong data
- Excited by the opportunity to shape the future of books on Spotify
- We are looking for a creative problem solver who is part player, part coach. Someone who is a high impact individual contributor, able to influence cross functional teams and to stretch into a management role
- You’re a proactive, independent problem-solver who can balance big-picture thinking with analytical detail
- Effective communicator, collaborator, and operator who can manage in fast-paced environments and influence senior stakeholders in a matrix organization
- You have experience working with large datasets; familiarity with SQL or BigQuery is a plus; and are skilled in the use of AI tools
Benefits
- health insurance
- six-month paid parental leave
- 401(k) retirement plan
- monthly meal allowance
- 23 paid days off
- 13 paid flexible holidays
- paid sick leave
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Hard Skills & Tools
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Soft Skills
strategic thinkinginfluencingcollaborationcommunicationindependent problem-solvingbig-picture thinkingcoachingadaptabilityproactivityteam leadership