At Spotify, our vision is to provide the perfect recommendations for every moment. We’ve already connected millions of people to their favorite songs and podcasts, and built a service that people use to discover and share the content they love. We are now growing our world-class Audiobook editorial team, looking for individuals who can connect amazing stories with the just right moods, moments and genres to listeners who will love them.
Spotify is seeking a Senior Editor to join our Audiobooks team to build and manage editorial programming for our German-language storefronts, including strategic collaboration with multiple cross-functional teams to help support key marketing campaigns and celebrate unique cultural moments.
The right candidate has strong experience with books editorial and/or bookselling, has worked hands-on with digital content, and possesses a deep understanding of the publishing industry with passion for all things books. A highly organized individual with excellent communication skills who enjoy working in a fast-paced, lively environment with a variety of teams and partners will thrive in this role.
What You'll Do
- Create and execute on editorial strategy for audiobooks across German-language markets.
- Manage ongoing editorial updates, hypotheses, and playlists.
- Collaborate and implement editorial plan recommendations, based on a clear understanding of business goals, to attract new and diverse audiences.
- Program editorial content on platform as needed.
- Build out the editorial calendar(s) for German-language markets.
- Manage day to day relationships with sales representatives at major German-language publishing houses.
- Collaborate cross functionally with wider Spotify organizations—such as growth, marketing, PR, product, engineering, and operations — to highlight and champion audiobooks.
- Collaborate closely with our other Senior Editors to create high quality, data-informed editorial for relevant storefronts.
- Use research, cultural insights, and data analytics to continually enhance and elevate the right editorial lens for our audiobooks platform.
Who You Are
- Proficiency in German and English, and an ability to collaborate with global teams, as well as German publishers daily.
- 5+ years of editorial and/or merchandising experience at a digital first platform, a publishing house, or for a major books' retailer.
- You have significant hands-on experience working with German-language publishers, and a keen understanding of the German publishing landscape.
- You are immersed in German culture and trends, particularly as it relates to the book industry.
- You have the ability to drive excitement and recommendations around German authors, unique genres, narrators, and local cultural moments and programs.
- You have experience building and implementing diverse recommendations that provide representation of cultures and people globally.
- You bring the ability to balance commercial recommendations with diverse programming.
- You have a keen sense of what makes titles appropriate for different situations, and an ability to quickly identify authors, series and titles to recommend.
- You have a deep passion for books and connecting readers with great content.
- You are passionate about the evolution of audio and enjoy consuming spoken word content.
- You are comfortable using quantitative and qualitative data to build and drive strategy.
- You are a strong communicator and able to work with cross-functional teams.
- You are highly organized and detail oriented.
Where You'll Be
- This role will be based in our London or Stockholm office.
