Senior Engineering Manager

💼 Senior Engineering Manager – Experience CoreX

📍 Location: Stockholm, Sweden (Hybrid within EMEA preferred) | 🕓 Job Type: Permanent | 🏢 Department: Engineering – CoreX Studio

🌐 About Spotify

Spotify transformed music streaming forever and is now the world’s most popular audio streaming subscription service, with over 500 million users worldwide. Our mission is to unlock human creativity by enabling a million artists to live off their art and billions of fans to enjoy it. We’re building a workplace that reflects the diversity of our listeners and drives innovation through inclusion.

🧠 The Opportunity

We’re seeking a Senior Engineering Manager to lead engineering efforts for the Core Value & Engagement (CV&E) Product Area within CoreX Studio. This team is focused on enhancing the main user-facing mobile app to improve engagement and eliminate friction in the user journey. The CV&E area includes 4 squads with 40+ engineers across EMEA.

🔧 What You’ll Do

• Provide technical and strategic leadership across all squads in the CV&E product area.
• Champion a dual-track delivery approach (Discovery + Execution) to drive innovation and maintain high-quality user experiences.
• Partner with senior Product, Design, and Insights leaders to define the technical roadmap and product vision for core Spotify engagement features.
• Mentor and develop Engineering Managers and Staff Engineers, fostering a collaborative and high-performing team culture.
• Lead the charge in Spotify’s social investment strategy, ensuring platform-wide alignment with user engagement goals.
• Oversee the delivery of high-quality, bug-free software releases that delight users.
• Represent engineering across the wider Spotify organization, influencing technical direction and stakeholder alignment.

🎯 What We’re Looking For

• Proven experience leading managers of managers in consumer-facing software organizations.
• Background in building mobile or web applications with strong emphasis on end-user experience and technical excellence.
• Prior hands-on engineering experience with an ability to dive deep when necessary.
• Experience collaborating across Product, Design, and Data/Insights functions in an Agile environment.
• Skilled in balancing product ambition with engineering sustainability and quality.
• Passionate about user engagement, performance, and system reliability.
• Track record of delivering large-scale, complex digital initiatives with measurable business outcomes.
• Familiarity with legacy system modernization is a plus.

🏆 What We Offer

• 🌱 Extensive learning opportunities through Spotify’s GreenHouse program.
• 🍼 Global parental leave – six months fully paid for all new parents.
• 💻 Flexible share incentives – choose how you benefit from Spotify’s growth.
• 🌎 Work from where you work best – within EMEA regions aligned to CET/GMT.
• 🌿 Flexible public holidays – celebrate what matters most to you.
• ❤️ Access to our All The Feels wellness hub and mental health resources.

🔍 Location & Flexibility

• Based in Stockholm or other Spotify-approved EMEA locations (excluding France due to on-call restrictions).
• Core working hours aligned to Central European and GMT time zones.
• Hybrid work model with flexibility to optimize collaboration and personal productivity.

🤝 Diversity, Equity & Inclusion

At Spotify, we embrace diversity in all its forms and are proud to be an equal opportunity employer. Our inclusive workplace culture celebrates differences and drives innovation through authenticity. We welcome your unique voice and perspective — bring it with you!