What are the responsibilities and job description for the Senior Program Manager - Finance position at Spotify?
The Finance Program Ops team at Spotify is looking for an experienced Program Management professional to drive strategic execution of key programs across our core Finance and Engineering teams and other company verticals.
You will be responsible for facilitating collaboration between global teams, working with the mission leadership to drive large-scale company-wide initiatives, and ensuring alignment on initiative execution for longer term business strategies.
Your work will span multiple time zones and product areas, so we expect end-to-end oversight and management to stay aligned from discovery to delivery. To be successful in this role, you must build trust, establish rapport, and maintain communication with partners in multiple levels and groups. Your strength should lie in seeing a comprehensive perspective and understand how all the moving parts relate to then systematize it into a functioning program.
What You'll Do
Today, we are the world’s most popular audio streaming subscription service.
You will be responsible for facilitating collaboration between global teams, working with the mission leadership to drive large-scale company-wide initiatives, and ensuring alignment on initiative execution for longer term business strategies.
Your work will span multiple time zones and product areas, so we expect end-to-end oversight and management to stay aligned from discovery to delivery. To be successful in this role, you must build trust, establish rapport, and maintain communication with partners in multiple levels and groups. Your strength should lie in seeing a comprehensive perspective and understand how all the moving parts relate to then systematize it into a functioning program.
What You'll Do
- Manage portfolio of key initiatives across Spotify in alignment with mission leadership, under deadlines and competing priorities and various states of maturity
- Partner closely with stakeholders across Finance (Accounting, Tax, FP&A), R&D (Engineering, Product), other vertical leads and fellow Program Managers to help communicate business strategies to the wider organization
- Communicate effectively with multiple levels including executive leadership team
- Influence key decision making with internal and cross-functional decision makers
- Monitor the effectiveness and progress of key initiatives and lead select initiatives personally and collaboratively
- Drive alignment in our Mission by developing, facilitating, and sustaining forums for cross functional discussions, decisions making, and knowledge sharing
- Streamline ongoing finance initiative needs (tooling, reporting, risk management, cross functional engagement, planning, etc.) and track progress towards long-term goals
- Support planning across the Company and Finance mission to ensure accurate sizing of work, surface and actively manage risks, blockers, decisions and escalations
- Understand Mission and company-wide initiatives and ensure our product area can build strategic, mutually beneficial relationships with other areas of Spotify, help communicate business strategies to the wider organization
- 8 years of experience in Program Management, FinTech delivery and/or Strategy Operations
- FinTech and/or Finance Consulting background
- Familiar working on a global scale with international team across time zones
- Hands-on experience delivering software development programs, working with Finance, Product and Engineering orgs
- Experience with implementations, running/representing large, cross-functional initiatives and easily communicate strategies, goals, and progress status
- Able to lead multiple concurrent projects in an agile, fast-paced, frequently evolving environment
- Resilient, structured, organized and excellent attention to detail
- Exceptional communicator and influencer that reduces noise, identify and remove blockers, encourage collaboration, and continuously improve our ways of working
- Experience with following is a plus: Jira, Coda, LucidChart, Agile, SDLC, CI/CD, ERPs
- 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
Today, we are the world’s most popular audio streaming subscription service.
Salary : $155,931 - $222,758