Spotify

Technical Operations Lead

Spotify$91K — $130K *
Technical Services
5 - 7 years of experience
Job Overview by Ladders

Qualifications

  • 5+ years in technical support operations or related field
  • Experience with global vendor support teams across time zones
  • Strong technical knowledge in ad serving and web technologies
  • Ability to interpret and communicate technical documentation clearly
  • Proactive in problem-solving and process improvement
  • Detail-oriented with a focus on documentation and organization
  • Effective communicator across technical and non-technical teams

Responsibilities

  • Lead day-to-day operations of vendor technical support teams
  • Serve as primary escalation point for complex technical issues
  • Partner with Product and Engineering to address bugs and incidents
  • Build and improve escalation workflows for effective communication
  • Identify recurring issues and advocate for long-term fixes
  • Maintain technical knowledge base and escalation documentation
  • Support onboarding and training programs for the vendor support team
  • Review support cases to identify trends and enhance effectiveness

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
We are looking for a Technical Support Operations Lead to partner closely with our vendor Technical Support teams. These teams support advertisers, sales partners, and internal stakeholders by resolving bugs, incidents, and platform issues. In this role, you'll handle escalations, support day-to-day operations, and help build a high-quality technical support function. You'll act as a bridge between customers and engineering, helping resolve issues efficiently and improving the overall support experience.

What You'll Do

  • Lead the day-to-day operations of vendor Technical Support teams, ensuring timely and accurate resolution of technical issues across advertiser and internal requests
  • Serve as the primary escalation point for complex technical issues, troubleshooting and resolving problems before escalating to Engineering where possible
  • Partner with Product and Engineering to prioritize and resolve bugs, and support the incident management process with clear and actionable information
  • Build and improve escalation workflows and processes to ensure efficient communication between support, product, and engineering teams
  • Identify recurring issues and root causes, and advocate for long-term fixes that improve platform stability and reliability
  • Own and maintain the technical knowledge base, troubleshooting guides, and escalation documentation to ensure clarity and usability
  • Identify skill gaps within the support team and support onboarding and ongoing learning programs in partnership with vendor training teams
  • Review support cases to identify trends, improve quality, and enhance support effectiveness
  • Collaborate cross-functionally with Product, Engineering, Product Marketing, Sales Systems, and other teams on launches, known issues, and improvements


Who You Are

  • You have 5+ years of experience in technical support operations, solutions engineering, technical program management, or a similar role
  • You have experience working with global vendor support teams across multiple time zones
  • You bring strong technical knowledge, including familiarity with ad serving, pixels, conversion tracking, APIs, debugging tools, and web technologies such as HTML and JavaScript
  • You can interpret technical documentation, bug reports, and engineering tickets, and translate them into clear guidance for a range of audiences
  • You take a proactive approach to identifying patterns, solving problems, and improving processes
  • You are detail-oriented and organized, with a focus on maintaining high-quality documentation and workflows
  • You communicate clearly and collaborate effectively across technical and non-technical teams


Where You'll Be

  • We offer you the flexibility to work where you work best! For this role, you can be within the Eastern Standard time zone.


The United States base range for this position is $91,395-$130,564 USD, 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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