Manager, Strategy & New Initiatives SAMEA

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

Where You'll Be

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.

Skills Required

Ai, Tableau, Sql