About Creation Platform

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

Creation Platform is the team within Spotify responsible for building the best tools for audio creators. We have three platforms that help us deliver a great creator experience: Anchor (the platform that allows you to create, distribute, monetize, and grow a podcast, all for free), Spotify for Podcasters (the platform that makes it easy to understand and engage with your listeners on Spotify, and Greenroom (the platform that allows anyone to stream or listen to live audio).

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:

• Help develop and lead Anchor’s content partnerships strategy
• Attract and build partnerships with Creators, specifically in Sports, Gaming, Business, and News verticals
• Develop a tiered strategy for content partnerships; focusing on a handful of high impact, bespoke executions while maintaining a consistent stream of scalable solutions and opportunities
• Identify creative ways to use Anchor’s existing network to fuel future growth
• Lead thinking and analysis to help us better understand podcasters needs and the competitive landscape
• Work closely with product team to encourage features that improve partnerships
• Negotiate and secure creative deals with individuals and networks
• Lead multiple acquisition strategies while optimally supervising, analyzing and iterating upon the results

Who you are:

• Strongly passionate about podcasts and the creator community
• Being hungry, scrappy and flexible enough to work in a fast-paced, startup environment
• 5+ years of experience working in a business development / partner facing role and experience at a high-growth startup or creator-focused platform is a plus
• Experience identifying and pitching to potential partners and effectively leading a large number of partners/accounts
• You have experience building and executing against a pipeline of targets
• Deep understanding of the creative landscape and possess an existing network of creators, influencers, talent agents, network managers or YouTubers
• You are a strategic and creative problem solver who can turn research and data into measurable plans
• Experience working collaboratively product teams and collaborating on product launches
• Excellent communication and organization skills
• You have a driven work ethic and a willingness to try anything and everything, and to pivot quickly as needed
• You are exceptionally interested in podcasts, radio, or audio in general (bonus points if you have made your own podcast, been on the radio, or otherwise optimally crafted original audio content)

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 with a community of more than 345 million users.

This position is not eligible to be performed in Colorado.