Inference: the company is expanding its existing audiobooks offering across discovery, conversion, creator tooling and content licensing. Product roles are in New York and London, and a licensing role is in Tokyo.
Search and personalization strong signal
Today: "It's the place to discover the perfect song for the moment."
Inference: the company is adding AI-based ranking and summaries to Spotify Search, alongside its existing recommendation features. The roles are mostly remote and tied to New York and London.
Speech and AI voice models strong signal
Today: AI voice experiences named in the AI Voice posting: AI DJ, Generative AI Ads, Personalized Podcasts, Agent Voice Chat
Roles: Senior Applied Research Scientist - Personalization · Senior Applied Research Scientist - Personalization · Senior Product Quality Analyst - AI Voice
Inference: the Speak team is developing its own speech-to-speech and voice models to serve its AI voice features, including conversational ones such as Agent Voice Chat. Despite the 'Personalization' title, the two research roles sit in the Speak team. All three roles are remote, tied to London and New York.
Content platform and media pipeline strong signal
Today: "Spotify is a digital music service that gives you access to millions of songs."
Inference: the company is investing in how content is ingested, understood and delivered across music, podcasts and audiobooks. Roles are in London, New York and Stockholm.
Inference: the company is hiring client partners in Sydney, São Paulo and London, plus a go-to-market operations analyst in New York. The postings do not say whether these are new seats.
Premium subscriptions and growth moderate signal
Today: "$0 for 1 month, then $12.99 per month after."
Inference: the company is working on tools to configure Premium offers and convert free users. Product and engineering roles are in London, with a growth role in Istanbul. The backend role has been open since December 2025.
Where the headcount is going
Department
Open
Engineering
33
Product
12
Data and Analytics
9
Operations and Business Support
8
Content
7
Advertising
6
Markets and Subscriber Growth
5
Business Team
2
Marketing
2
Public Affairs
2
People
2
Design and User Experience
1
Of 82 open roles, 32 are in Engineering, the largest department, followed by Product and Markets and Subscriber Growth with 9 each; 34 roles opened in the last 30 days.
Locations: London (28), New York, NY (23), Stockholm (11); 27 roles are listed as remote, with the remote roles' locations as given in each posting.
You'd fit if you have expert knowledge of ad products and sales channels and can work with German-speaking clients (Client Partner - Emerging & Scaled (German Speaking), London).
You'd fit if you have product strategy experience and have owned end-to-end conversion flows and creator tooling (Senior Product Manager, Consumer - Audiobooks, New York or London).
You'd fit if you have built speech recognition, speech synthesis or speech-to-speech models through to production serving (Senior Applied Research Scientist - Personalization, remote, London or New York).
How to use this
If you're applying: Engineering is the largest group, so check each role's listed requirements against your experience. Many London and New York roles are remote. Data engineers should look at the Stockholm and London Data Platform roles, including the Lakehouse work on Apache Iceberg built with Google.
If you're selling or recruiting: The clearest clusters are audiobooks (New York, London, Tokyo), search and personalization ML (mostly remote, New York and London) and ad sales (Sydney, São Paulo, London). Hiring is steady: 34 roles opened in the last 30 days against 23 in the prior 30, with 15 closed.