Role overview
The Creative Lab sits within Spotify Advertising, the business unit within Spotify that focuses on connecting brands to millions of fans around the world. Our team is Spotify Advertising’s in-house creative agency, responsible for building branded experiences. We collaborate with brands and agencies to inspire, create, and scale creativity with Spotify-first thinking. We here at Creative Lab are storytellers who are obsessed with how ideas can be brought to life through the superpowers of our platform, and we are looking for someone to help lead through our next evolution, championing the potential of our products and offerings, and elevate our work.
We are seeking a seasoned creative strategist to be based in London, UK, joining our talented creative strategy team. This creative strategist will be dedicated to inspiring the best ideas centered around Spotify through proactive and reactive responses to creative briefs, co-creating and building with our biggest brands, creators, and advertisers today. While the job is located in our London headquarters, this is focused on global accounts which means that the work may be focused on the UK and US (majority) or in some cases across markets throughout Europe, India, South Korea and Singapore depending on where our clients are based.
The ideal candidate is a visionary strategist who truly embraces the blend of technology and storytelling. They think ahead, always planning the next feature or product in the innovation pipeline with immersive storytelling in mind for the industry. Their skills are varied: they can provide audience-centered ideas that meet brand objectives; meet with CCOs or CMOs at Fortune 500 brands to motivate future innovations and recommendations; and develop narratives, playbooks, and frameworks to assist internal and external collaborators in understanding platform possibilities.
The ideal candidate will build and lead our response to global, multinational clients including major CPG, tech and telco brands. Experience with global clients in portfolio settings or multi-market campaigns is required due to cross-regional duties. They will report directly to the Head of EMEA & Global Accounts at Creative Lab and join a diverse group of skilled creative strategists.
Though this is an IC role, the global account strategist will work with creative strategists in each region. They will lead global clients and initiatives as an upstream partner with centers of excellence and global brand teams. They inspire others to the mission and solve complex creative and operational problems. They think broadly about advertising industry dynamics and their impact on business. They apply this knowledge to our positioning, products, programs, and offerings.
And along the way, they will build a portfolio of work that wins awards and recognition. This success shows that creativity on Spotify is key to amplifying communications in a complex, crowded IRL and digital landscape.
What you'll work on
Who You Are
- 8-12+ years working in creative direction and strategy within a tech platform; creative agency background is strongly preferred; in-house brand experience is beneficial but optional.
- Experience collaborating with CPG and Tech brands is a plus
- Experience working across different markets and geographies; understands that cultural nuances are a must in considering creative ideation
- Experience working with senior-level collaborators and clients at agencies and brands
- Superlative cross-functional partnership skills that will help align our sales, marketing and product partners to our vision while supporting overall goals of the business
- Excellent presenter who can adapt from a small room of CMOs and CCOs to a large audience of industry experts. They inspire everyone toward creative storytelling on Spotify Ads.
- Experience managing and operationalizing creative teams including managing budgets, process and ways of working internally and externally
- Exceptionally organized with robust operational capabilities and the capacity to collaborate across different time zones and markets
- Ability to work in a fast-paced, matrixed environment and across collaborators in business marketing, brand, and product teams to build consensus on shared initiatives
- Keen observer and documenter of culture, with a keen understanding of what is relevant and the ability to identify upcoming visual, digital and tech trends
- Expert written and verbal communicator, capable of expressing abstract creative concepts clearly and influencing audiences when necessary
- Deep understanding of integrated marketing development, tech platforms and social media landscape, with experience in digital-first production
Spotify is an equal opportunity employer. You are welcome at Spotify for who you are, no matter where you come from, what you look like, or what’s playing in your headphones. Our platform is for everyone, and so is our workplace. The more voices we have represented and amplified in our business, the more we will all thrive, contribute, and be forward-thinking! So bring us your personal experience, your perspectives, and your background. It’s in our differences that we will find the power to keep revolutionizing the way the world listens.
At Spotify, we are passionate about inclusivity and making sure our entire recruitment process is accessible to everyone. We have ways to request reasonable accommodations during the interview process and help assist in what you need. If you need accommodations at any stage of the application or interview process, please let us know - we’re here to support you in any way we can.
Spotify transformed music listening forever when we launched in 2008. Our mission is to unlock the potential of human creativity by giving a million creative artists the opportunity to live off their art and billions of fans the chance to enjoy and be passionate about these creators. Everything we do is driven by our love for music and podcasting. Today, we are the world’s most popular audio streaming subscription service.
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