What are the responsibilities and job description for the Senior Editor, Audiobooks Job at Spotify in New York position at Spotify?

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 created a service that people use to discover and share the content they love. We are now growing our world-class Audiobook editorial team and are looking for individuals who can connect amazing stories with the just right moods, moments and genres to listeners who will love them.

We are seeking a Senior Editor to join our North American Audiobooks team to build and manage editorial programming for our US and CA storefronts, including strategic collaboration with multiple cross-functional teams to help support key marketing campaigns and celebrate unique cultural moments.

What You'll Do

Handle day to day relationships with sales representatives at major local publishing houses.
Collaborate and implement editorial plan recommendations, based on a clear understanding of business goals, to attract new and diverse audiences.
Run ongoing editorial updates, hypotheses, and playlists for audiobooks across North American markets.
Program editorial content on platform as needed.
Attend local industry events, with a lens toward representing the wider Audiobooks Editorial team.
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 Editors to complete 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

5 years of editorial and / or merchandising experience at a digital first platform, a publishing house, or for a major books retailer.

You have hands-on experience working with books publishers, and a keen understanding of the North American publishing landscape.

You have an ability to collaborate with global teams, as well as NYC-based publishers daily.

You have a network of relationships within the book publishing and author community.

You have a dynamic presence and comfort representing the team and Spotify with a wide variety of internal and external audiences at industry events.

You have experience driving excitement and recommendations around 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 is based in New York, NY.

We offer you the 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 2-3 times per week.

The United States base range for this position is $92,388.00 - 131,983.00 plus equity. The benefits available for this position include health insurance, six month paid parental leave, 401(k) retirement plan, 23 paid days off, 13 paid flexible holidays, paid sick leave. This range encompasses multiple levels. Leveling is determined during the interview process. Placement in a level depends on relevant work history and interview performance.

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Salary : $92,388 - $131,983

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