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About the Role
Role Significance & Mandate
Spotify Lever Board is expanding its engineering team with an exceptional Growth Lead - Japan. Join Spotify's Japan Growth team and help more listeners discover the value of Spotify Premium. As part of our Markets & Subscriptions organisation, you'll play a key role in growing our subscriber base in one of Spotify's most important markets.
Technical Architecture & Challenges
Japan is Spotify's only single-country region, and we're entering an exciting new chapter focused on partnerships and sustainable growth. Working across marketing, product, data and commercial teams, you'll shape our growth strategy, turn customer insights into action and find new ways to connect Japanese listeners with Spotify Premium. You'll have the opportunity to make a meaningful impact while developing your leadership responsibilities over time.
Our technical stack is built for durability, maintainability, and rapid iteration. You will have direct input into technology selection, architectural trade-offs, and infrastructure optimization.
Collaborative Engineering Standards
We value rigorous code reviews, automated canary releases, and zero-blame incident postmortems that turn production challenges into organizational learning.
Key Technical Responsibilities
- check_circle Provide technical leadership, architectural oversight, and engineering mentorship across Spotify Lever Board's teams.
- check_circle Partner with executive stakeholders to align engineering delivery with business goals and platform roadmaps.
- check_circle Drive cross-organizational technical RFCs, establish architectural standards, and reduce technical debt.
- check_circle Foster an inclusive, high-velocity engineering culture that attracts and develops top technical talent.
Prerequisites & Qualifications
- check Proven leadership experience guiding high-performing software engineering teams through technical milestones.
- check Exceptional systems architecture skills with experience making high-leverage technology trade-offs.
- check Track record of successfully delivering multi-quarter, cross-functional engineering initiatives.
- check Strong communication skills with ability to bridge complex technical decisions with strategic business outcomes.
About Spotify Lever Board
Verified hiring organization details.
Spotify Lever Board is a technology and software entity operating in New York, NY, associated with Spotify's recruitment and engineering operations. Spotify is a prominent global audio streaming and media services provider known for its robust software engineering infrastructure, data-driven culture, and large-scale distributed systems that serve hundreds of millions of active users worldwide.