Engineering Manager - Experimentation

About the Position

Engineering Manager - Experimentation

Stockholm, Sweden

Permanent / Hybrid

Think it, build it, ship it, tweak it" is at the core of Spotify's product development approach. In the Experimentation product area, we are providing Spotify and external customers with Confidence, our platform to quickly and safely iterate through ideas, learn from them, and make informed decisions for better products.

At Spotify, experimentation touches almost all of our functions, from marketing via content management to consumer products, and we’re running several thousands of tests every year. Through Confidence, we're sharing all our findings and practices with more companies as a commercial SaaS product.

The team you will manage is a skilled and highly engaged group of engineers that are distributed over Europe. As an Engineering Manager, you will coach them individually and as a team, maintaining their strong team culture and helping them thrive and grow. Your technical experience provides mentorship and guidelines to the team, which ensures quality and timeliness of your deliveries. Your leadership promotes creativity, collaboration, and courage, which forms a kind and productive team with a high bar for quality and pace of delivery.

Responsibilities

• Hire, coach, and develop the careers of a team of engineers
• Be responsible for high-quality deliveries
• Partner with product managers to support prioritizations and product visions
• Support the engineering team and work with Staff engineers to formulate the technical strategy needed to deliver on our vision
• Do hands-on engineering work from time to time
• Support a highly effective engineering team delivering an amazing product

Requirements

• Thrive when developing great people and cultivating a strong engineering culture in an agile environment
• Skilled in collaborating on and developing distributed systems that can scale to millions of users
• Experience with data warehouses and data processing at scale
• Worked on commercial SaaS products in the past and have hands-on experience taking features from zero to one
• A brave learner who sees unfamiliar territories as an opportunity to grow
• Senior individual contributor (or has been) with strong people skills and leadership experience
• Passionate about software engineering best practices and love to have an impact on large-scale tech problems
• Care deeply about the quality of the products you work on and hold people to a high standard
• Naturally harness AI as a tool that helps you be more effective at your work

Nice to Have

• Experience with Agile Environment
• Strong leadership skills
• Familiarity with AI tools

We Offer

• Based in Stockholm, Sweden
• Flexibility to work where you work best! There will be some in-person meetings, but still allows for flexibility to work from home. We ask that you come in 3 times per week.

We may use artificial intelligence (AI) tools to support parts of the hiring process, such as reviewing applications, analyzing resumes, or assessing responses. These tools assist our recruitment team but do not replace human judgment. Final hiring decisions are ultimately made by humans. If you would like more information about how your data is processed, please contact us. Find our AI notice here: Spotify AI Notice

About the Company

At Spotify, experimentation touches almost all of our functions, from marketing via content management to consumer products, and we’re running several thousands of tests every year. Through Confidence, we're sharing all our findings and practices with more companies as a commercial SaaS product.