Market Enablement Lead

Spotify•London, NY

15h•Hybrid

About The Position

Spotify is seeking a Market Enablement Manager to join their Audiobooks Editorial team. This role will be responsible for evolving and leading the standards, frameworks, and systems that power Audiobooks editorial at a global scale. As Audiobooks expands into new markets, this position will partner with regional editorial leads and cross-functional stakeholders to ensure consistent editorial quality and culturally resonant content for listeners worldwide. The role focuses on maintaining editorial judgment, standards, and craft across distributed markets.

Requirements

7+ years of experience in editorial, content strategy, or programming, ideally at a global digital platform, streaming service, or major publisher.
Demonstrated track record of building editorial systems, frameworks, or standards that scale across teams, markets, or content types.
Understanding of practical editorial quality and ability to translate judgment into usable structures.
Exceptional communication skills to make complex editorial concepts accessible to non-editorial partners.
Experience working with market, regional, or international teams, understanding global consistency vs. local relevance.
Curiosity about AI tools and editorial technology and their potential to augment human judgment.
Strong systems thinking, pattern recognition, process building, and clarity creation in ambiguous environments.
Passion for books and the evolution of audio and spoken-word storytelling.
Clear communication, ruthless prioritization, and thriving in collaborative, cross-functional environments.

Responsibilities

Own editorial launch readiness for markets without dedicated regional editorial coverage, including shared World English curation.
Design and maintain editorial frameworks, quality standards, and programming guidelines for global Audiobooks curation.
Build and scale tools, playbooks, and onboarding resources for regional editors and cross-functional teams.
Collaborate with regional editorial leads to ensure Market Enablement frameworks meet on-the-ground editorial needs.
Identify editorial coverage gaps and develop scalable solutions, including AI-assisted workflows.
Lead the editorial systems and tooling roadmap with Product and Engineering, covering catalog tagging, editorial scoring, and workflow infrastructure.
Build and manage the Market Enablement function's editorial calendar, aligning with global priorities and initiatives.
Define and monitor quality signals across distributed markets, providing insights for continuous improvement.
Partner with the Director of Editorial to develop long-term global standards for scaling Audiobooks.