Senior Editor

What You’ll Do

• Create and execute on editorial strategy for audiobooks across German-language markets.
• Manage ongoing editorial updates, hypotheses, and playlists.
• Collaborate and implement editorial plan recommendations, based on a clear understanding of business goals, to attract new and diverse audiences.
• Program editorial content on platform as needed.
• Build out the editorial calendar(s) for German-language markets.
• Manage day to day relationships with sales representatives at major German-language publishing houses.
• 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 Senior Editors to create 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

• Proficiency in German and English, and an ability to collaborate with global teams, as well as German publishers daily.
• 5+ years of editorial and/or merchandising experience at a digital first platform, a publishing house, or for a major books’ retailer.
• You have significant hands-on experience working with German-language publishers, and a keen understanding of the German publishing landscape.
• You are immersed in German culture and trends, particularly as it relates to the book industry.
• You have the ability to drive excitement and recommendations around German 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 will be based in our London or Stockholm office.