What You'll Do

• Handle day to day relationships with sales representatives at major local publishing houses.
• Collaborate and implement editorial plan recommendations, based on a clear understanding of business goals, to attract new and diverse audiences.
• Run ongoing editorial updates, hypotheses, and playlists for audiobooks across North American markets.
• Program editorial content on platform as needed.
• Attend local industry events, with a lens toward representing the wider Audiobooks Editorial team.
• 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 Editors to complete 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

• 5+ years of editorial and/or merchandising experience at a digital first platform, a publishing house, or for a major books retailer.
• You have hands-on experience working with books publishers, and a keen understanding of the North American publishing landscape.
• You have an ability to collaborate with global teams, as well as NYC-based publishers daily.
• You have a network of relationships within the book publishing and author community.
• You have a dynamic presence and comfort representing the team and Spotify with a wide variety of internal and external audiences at industry events.
• You have experience driving excitement and recommendations around 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 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.