Spotify

Head of Backstage Marketing

Spotify$171K — $245K *
Enterprise Technology
8 - 10 years of experience
Job Overview by Ladders

Qualifications

  • 10+ years in B2B SaaS, growth marketing, or product marketing
  • 5+ years leading high-performing teams
  • Experience marketing developer tools or technical SaaS products
  • Understanding of engineering culture and communication with technical audiences
  • Proven track record of owning revenue or adoption targets
  • Led digital performance marketing and growth funnel optimization
  • Strong data analytics and forecasting skills
  • Balance commercial insight with user-centered design thinking
  • Ability to clarify and structure complex initiatives
  • Experience in fast-paced environments and building innovative approaches

Responsibilities

  • Set and drive the marketing strategy for the Shipping Our Expertise (SOE) business
  • Build and implement growth strategies for revenue and customer expansion
  • Lead digital and paid acquisition initiatives targeting technical audiences
  • Define unique messaging for technical B2B users
  • Collaborate with Engineering, Product, and Sales for alignment on priorities
  • Establish and track marketing performance metrics across all stages of the funnel
  • Develop event and community strategies to enhance visibility and generate leads
  • Scale marketing operations with effective planning and performance reporting
  • Build and mentor a data-informed marketing team

Benefits

  • Health insurance
  • Six-month paid parental leave
  • 401(k) retirement plan
  • Monthly meal allowance
  • 23 paid days off
  • Paid flexible holidays
  • Paid sick leave
Full Job Description
The Platform team creates the technology that enables Spotify to learn quickly and scale easily, enabling rapid growth in our users and our business around the globe. Spanning many disciplines, we work to make the business work; creating the infrastructure, tooling, frameworks, and capabilities needed to welcome a billion customers.

About the Team
Backstage was created at Spotify and has grown into a leading SaaS and open source platform for developer portals. Thousands of companies use Backstage to bring structure to complex microservices environments, improve developer experience, and ship high-quality software faster - including in the age of AI - without losing autonomy or control.Backstage powers centralized software catalogs, standards, and AI enablement capabilities across open source, plugins, and SaaS offerings.

Our customers include global enterprises and Fortune 100 companies transforming their engineering culture. This role leads marketing for Shipping Our Expertise (SOE), Spotify's B2B SaaS business built on our platform capabilities, while also shaping the broader Spotify R&D brand.

What You'll Do

  • Set and drive the end-to-end marketing strategy for the SOE business across product marketing, growth, and brand
  • Build and execute growth strategies that drive measurable revenue, adoption, and customer expansion
  • Lead digital and paid acquisition programs targeting developers, engineering leaders, and enterprise buyers
  • Define clear positioning and differentiated messaging for technical B2B audiences
  • Partner closely with Engineering, Product, and Sales to align roadmap, go-to-market plans, and commercial priorities
  • Establish and track full-funnel performance across awareness, acquisition, activation, retention, and revenue
  • Lead event and community strategy to increase visibility and generate qualified pipeline
  • Scale marketing operations through strong planning, dashboards, and performance reporting
  • Build, mentor, and grow a high-performing, data-informed marketing team


Who You Are

  • You have 10+ years of experience in B2B SaaS, growth marketing, or product marketing
  • You have 5+ years of experience leading and developing high-performing teams
  • You have experience marketing developer tools, infrastructure platforms, or technical SaaS products
  • You understand engineering culture and know how to communicate with technical audiences
  • You have owned revenue or adoption targets and can demonstrate measurable business impact
  • You have led digital performance marketing, paid acquisition, and growth funnel optimization
  • You are comfortable working with data, building forecasts, and using dashboards to guide decisions
  • You balance commercial thinking with strong product intuition and user-centered mindset
  • You bring structure and clarity to complex, ambiguous initiatives
  • You thrive in fast-moving environments and enjoy building new approaches from the ground up


Where You'll Be

  • This role is based in New York
  • 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.


The United States base range for this position is 171,640-245,200USD, plus equity. The benefits available for this position include health insurance, six-month paid parental leave, 401(k) retirement plan, monthly meal allowance, 23 paid days off, paid flexible holidays, and paid sick leave. These ranges may be modified in the future.

About Spotify

Spotify is a Swedish audio streaming and media services provider, launched in October 2008. The platform is owned by Spotify AB, a publicly traded company on the New York Stock Exchange since April 2018. Spotify's primary business is providing an audio streaming platform, with the company claiming that it had 345 million active monthly users and 155 million paying subscribers as of December 2020. Unlike physical or download sales, which pay artists a fixed price per song or album sold, Spotify pays royalties based on the number of artist streams as a proportion of total songs streamed on the service. Spotify distributes approximately 70% of its total revenue to rights holders, who then pay artists based on their individual agreements. Spotify has faced criticism from artists and producers including Taylor Swift and Thom Yorke, who have argued that it does not fairly compensate musicians. Spotify has also faced criticism from artists and producers including Taylor Swift and Thom Yorke, who have argued that it does not fairly compensate musicians.
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3,456 employees
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2006

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