Manager, Strategy & New Initiatives SAMEA chez Spotify

We are seeking a structured, analytical, and impact-driven Managerto help operationalize Spotify’s regional strategy across the South Asia, Middle East, and Africa (SAMEA) region.This role plays a pivotal part in ensuring strategic clarity, operational field, and learning across SAMEA’s markets — maintaining the rhythm of business, tracking regional bets, and supporting cross-market collaboration. You will help convert strategy into action by building systems, playbooks, and insights that drive measurable progress toward Spotify’s ambitions!The role will report into the Head of Strategy & Operations – SAMEA.

What You'll Do

Lead the tracking and governance of the SAMEA Bet Board, ensuring critical initiatives are on course, measured, and continuously optimized

Build playbooks on product feature marketing, user engagement, and lifecycle usage strategies across SAMEA

Contribute to the long-tail markets agenda, helping design and monitor light-touch growth strategies and advocacy programs for emerging markets

Maintain the operational cadence for the SAMEA Strategy & Ops team — driving quarterly reviews, leadership updates, and alignment across markets

Manage and coordinate cross-market strategic projects, enabling collaboration across South Asia, MENAP, and Sub-Saharan Africa

Support the SAMEA learning and knowledge initiatives, and help share best practices and playbooks across markets of SAMEA

Partner with the Insights & Product Regionalisation and Product Marketing & GTM teams to integrate data, insights, and outcomes into strategic planning cycles

Contribute to building a culture of learning and operational excellence across SAMEA, ensuring processes, reviews, and knowledge systems run with consistency and clarity

Track and report on the key performance metrics against the key programs across SAMEA, and to inform strategic decision-making

Who You Are

You have a minimum of 5–8+ years of experience in strategy or product marketing - ideally within technology, media, or consumer internet sectors

A strategic thinker with strong project management skills. You bring structure, clarity and forward momentum to complex, cross-functional environments. You thrive in a global and cross cultural work environment

You are skilled at managing cross-functional projects, balancing multiple priorities with attention to detail

You have experience maintaining strategic cadences, dashboards, and tracking mechanisms for leadership teams

A strong communicator, who can influence strategy with strong story-telling capabilities, and drive alignment across different functions and seniority levels to ensure the region moves toward its goals

Comfortable working with data — using tools like SQL or Tableau to run queries, and translate findings into actionable insights.

You have a natural curiosity for music, culture, and audiences, and a drive to understand what moves and motivates people across diverse markets

You are a power user of AI, know how to demonstrate it fully, and where not to use it

Where You'll Be

This role is based in Mumbai

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

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