Are you looking to make a significant impact on how Spotifiers work and partner with industry leading cloud providers?
Location
Stockholm
Job type
Permanent
Part of Spotify’s Technology Procurement team, the Vendor Management Office consists of vendor program managers that help Spotify engineers adapt quickly and thrive. Members of the VMO implement and maintain some of the most complex global engagements around the world. Your role will be to connect our technology strategy to the commercial and financial aspects of these partnerships together with a diverse group of technical collaborators. You will be involved across the entire lifecycle of these relationships from strategy to prioritization, governance, and, finally, public celebration of joint successes.
In this role you will make a significant and direct impact on how Spotify works and serves music, podcasts and audiobooks to hundreds of millions of people per day.

What You’ll Do

• Foster vendor relationships at an enterprise level, with the goal to create and maintain mutually beneficial, healthy partnerships
• Connect and facilitate knowledge exchange, action plans and delivery between the Spotify engineering organization and the engineering organization from our partners
• Articulate technology infrastructure strategy working with Spotify’s engineering organization with strategic partners
• Work with our strategic vendors to coordinate proactive communications, QBRs, SPRs and relationship management to set and update goals in the partnership
• Experience defining projects, identifying risks, handling cost, coordinating scope, identifying dependencies, supporting the deployment of new product and feature development.
• Support key partners and business leads in both SaaS and Cloud operations (e.g., launch/capacity planning), technical support, and escalation management.
• Create and deliver best practices recommendations, tutorials, blog articles, and technical RFCs to different levels of key business and technical partners.

Who You Are

• 1-3+ years experience managing sophisticated and complicated vendors ranging from start-ups to large enterprises
• Ability to articulate value from strategic technology choices in a crisp focused manner both to our own engineering organization and to our partners
• Interpersonal skills to build relationships between engineering organizations that are characterized by a high degree of transparency and trust
• Familiarity with commercial negotiations and their interplay with strategic technology choices.
• Knowledge and experience participating in engineering discussions that tackle concerns and provide solutions across multiple, global vendors

Where You’ll Be

• This role is based in Stockholm
• There will be some in person meetings, but still allows for flexibility to work from home. We ask that you come in 2-3 times per week

Our global benefits
Extensive learning opportunities, through our dedicated team, GreenHouse.
Flexible share incentives letting you choose how you share in our success.
Global parental leave, six months off - fully paid - for all new parents.
All The Feels, our employee assistance program and self-care hub.
Flexible public holidays, swap days off according to your values and beliefs.
Learn about life at Spotify
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 500 million users.
Learn more about our cultur

• Foster vendor relationships at an enterprise level, with the goal to create and maintain mutually beneficial, healthy partnerships
• Connect and facilitate knowledge exchange, action plans and delivery between the Spotify engineering organization and the engineering organization from our partners
• Articulate technology infrastructure strategy working with Spotify’s engineering organization with strategic partners
• Work with our strategic vendors to coordinate proactive communications, QBRs, SPRs and relationship management to set and update goals in the partnership
• Experience defining projects, identifying risks, handling cost, coordinating scope, identifying dependencies, supporting the deployment of new product and feature development.
• Support key partners and business leads in both SaaS and Cloud operations (e.g., launch/capacity planning), technical support, and escalation management.
• Create and deliver best practices recommendations, tutorials, blog articles, and technical RFCs to different levels of key business and technical partners