What it does: Discover, manage and share over 70m tracks for free, or upgrade to Spotify Premium to access exclusive features including offline mode, improved sound quality, and an ad-free music listening experience.
Mission: Our mission is to unlock the potential of human creativity—by allowing a million creative artists to live off their art and billions of fans the opportunity to enjoy and be inspired by it.
Size and presence: Today, Spotify is the most popular global audio streaming service with 365m users, including 165m subscribers across 178 markets. We are the largest driver of revenue to the music business today.
Best known for: We’re not just shaping the future of audio. We want to help shape a better future for society and the planet too. Bit by bit. Day by day.
The good bits: Spotify has a very horizontal and collaborative culture.
The not-so-good bits: Sometimes career growth is difficult because there's not a lot of vertical space in the structure, but a great place to be for 2-3 years.
Spotify was founded in 2006 in Stockholm, Sweden, by Daniel Ek, former CTO of Stardoll, and Martin Lorentzon, co-founder of Tradedoubler. According to Ek, the company's title was initially misheard from a name shouted by Lorentzon. Later they thought out a portmanteau of "spot" and "identify."
In February 2009, Spotify opened public registration for the free service tier in the United Kingdom. Registrations surged following the release of the mobile service, leading Spotify to halt registration for the free service in September, returning the UK to an invitation-only policy.
Spotify launched in the United States in July 2011 and offered a six-month, ad-supported trial period, during which new users could listen to an unlimited amount of music for free. In January 2012, the free trial periods began to expire, and limited users to ten hours of streaming each month, and five plays per song. Later that same year, in March, Spotify removed all limits on the free service tier indefinitely.
In April 2016, Ek and Lorentzon wrote an open letter to Swedish politicians, demanding action in three areas that they claimed hindered the company's ability to recruit top talent as Spotify grows, including access to flexible housing, and better education in the programming and development fields, and stock options. Ek and Lorentzon wrote that to continue competing in a global economy, politicians needed to respond with new policies, or else thousands of Spotify jobs would be moved from Sweden to the United States.
In February 2017, Spotify announced the expansion of its United States operations in Lower Manhattan, New York City, at 4 World Trade Center, adding approximately 1,000 new jobs and retaining 832 existing positions. The company's US headquarters are located in New York City's Flatiron District.
On 14 November 2018, the company announced a total of 13 new markets in the MENA region, including the creation of a new Arabic hub and several playlists.[
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 contribute, thrive, and be brilliant.
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.
Without a diversity of instruments, a band’s output would be pretty boring. There’s a reason why your favorite band isn’t just five tubas playing at once.
We’re taking a holistic approach – not just looking at how we can attract and hire more diverse talent, but how we can retain that talent through things like culture, pay equity, and promotions. We’re also taking steps to ensure greater representation across our leadership.
We lead with empathy and are always looking for ways to be more inclusive – whether that’s changing the way we work or how we design our platform.
We don’t just want to foster a sense of belonging in our culture. We want to amplify it across the world. We’re working on ways to do this on our platform and in our communities in partnership with our Equity & Impact team.
We take an always-on approach, encouraging you to learn on the job through stretch assignments, new challenges, and social knowledge sharing so you can drive your development. Not just once a year. But every single day.
Don’t think that means you have to go it alone though. Your manager will be right there to lend support and guide you on your development journey. And you’ll have access to all the tools and training you need to grow. Behind it, all will be GreenHouse, our dedicated team looking after learning and development who are thought leaders in the industry and beyond.
⛔ Bonus annual leave
✅ Bonus parental leave
✅ Unpaid extended leave
✅ Permanent employee
✅ Signing bonus
✅ Annual bonus
⛔ Stock options
⛔ Full remote work
✅ Partial remote work
✅ Flexible working hours
⛔ Child care
✅ Free gym
⛔ Pet-friendly office
✅ Mental health days
✅ Hospital
✅ Outpatient
✅ Dental
✅ Maternity
⛔ Free breakfast
⛔ Free lunch
✅ Free tea & coffee
✅ Free snacks
⛔Free dinner
The consequences of climate change are mounting by the day, and we all must work to be a part of the solution. As a streaming service, our impact on the climate isn’t always obvious. We exist in the digital space, but ultimately, our business is grounded in the physical world, in our office spaces, our suppliers’ data centers, and our listeners’ devices.
Our climate is changing, and in response, society needs to change its behavior. Not only do we have a responsibility to handle our impact as a business, but we also have the opportunity to use our global reach to raise awareness of the climate crisis.
With a strategy rooted in science, we’re methodically reviewing our environmental impact and using our findings to set tangible goals. We’re calculating all greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions connected to our business, everything from the electricity we use and the travel we do to our entire value chain. From there, we’re identifying where we need to focus our efforts going forward to make an impactful, long-lasting difference to our planet.