At Spotify Advertising, our part of that mission is to build the next generation advertising platform for audio which can scale the freemium experience for hundreds of millions of fans and tens of thousands of advertisers. This scale brings unique challenges as well as tremendous opportunities to define the insights product for our business.

Podcasts came onto the scene nearly two decades ago. In the early days, podcasters began monetizing their content by simply recording their ad reads directly into the audio file for a specific podcast episode – these became known as “baked-in” or “burned-in” ads. The rollout of Dynamic Ad Insertion (DAI) in 2013 was a big step forward for podcast ad tech: advertisers could target and serve different ad creatives to different listeners and scale their ads across multiple episodes or podcasts. Still, DAI had its drawbacks, namely that measurement is limited to downloads, and there are no visual cues that an ad is playing or a convenient way for listeners to take action.

When Spotify launched Streaming Ad Insertion (SAI) in 2020, we introduced impression-level insight to podcast advertising for the very first time. Rather than relying on download data, advertisers now have access to standard digital reporting like impressions, unique reach, frequency, unique audience insights, and creative performance metrics powered by Spotify’s first-party data. Since then, we’ve launched Call To Action (CTA) Cards to allow our users to interact with the ads and to review them later. And now, we’re taking it a step further to allow our listeners to purchase products right from the Spotify app.

This team is currently focused on running initial tests to determine the viability of this product, and we’ll continue to build on it to a full scale product.

What You'll Do

• Build cutting edge iOS apps that bring the joy of music and podcasts to millions of users.
• Collaborate closely with other engineers.
• Write clear, maintainable code that will scale across a number of projects and distributed development teams
• Become a valued member of an autonomous, cross-functional team.

Who You Are

• You know how to write readable, idiomatic and maintainable Swift and are willing to follow already defined coding guidelines and workflows.
• You are experienced with a variety of iOS frameworks.
• You have an understanding of Cocoa design patterns and API design.
• You care about quality and you know what it means to ship high quality code.
• You have released at least one app on the App Store or have a project in the works that you can tell us about.
• Values team success over personal success.
• You have at least 1+ years of iOS experience.

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
• 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.
• Working hours? We operate within the Eastern Standard time zone for collaboration 

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.