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Engineering Manager - Music

New York, NY

$164K - $234K/yr

Collaborate with internal teams, including legal, rights operations, and content, to ensure the Spotify Rights Center evolves with regulatory needs and continues to meet expectations of rightsholders ...

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Manager FP&A, Distribution Partnerships

New York, NY · On-site

$117K - $168K/yr

Spotify is looking for a commercially minded FP&A Manager to serve as the dedicated finance partner ... Partner closely with Distribution Partnerships, Accounting, Business Affairs, Legal, Strategy, and ...

Spotify

Engineering Manager - Music

New York, NY · On-site +1

$164K - $234K/yr

Collaborate with internal teams, including legal, rights operations, and content, to ensure the Spotify Rights Center evolves with regulatory needs and continues to meet expectations of rightsholders ...

Spotify

Engineering Manager - Music

New York, NY · Remote

$164K - $234K/yr

Collaborate with internal teams, including legal, rights operations, and content, to ensure the Spotify Rights Center evolves with regulatory needs and continues to meet expectations of rightsholders ...

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Engineering Manager, Music

Manhattan, NY · On-site

$164 - $235/hr

Collaborate with internal teams, including legal, rights operations, and content, to ensure the Spotify Rights Center evolves with regulatory needs and continues to meet expectations of rightsholders ...

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As of Sep 7, 2026, the average yearly pay for spotify legal in the United States is $87,763.00, according to ZipRecruiter salary data. Most workers in this role earn between $66,500.00 and $101,500.00 per year, depending on experience, location, and employer.

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A Spotify Legal job involves providing legal support and guidance to the company on various matters, including contracts, intellectual property, regulatory compliance, and licensing. Legal professionals at Spotify work to ensure the company operates within legal frameworks while fostering innovation in music and technology. Roles may include corporate lawyers, compliance specialists, and intellectual property experts.

What are the typical responsibilities of someone on Spotify's Legal team?

Members of Spotify's Legal team are usually responsible for reviewing and drafting agreements, managing intellectual property rights, advising on licensing deals, and providing strategic legal counsel to various departments. They might also handle compliance with data privacy laws, support mergers and acquisitions, and collaborate closely with product, engineering, and business development teams to assess legal risks. The role often requires balancing fast-paced business demands with the need for thorough risk assessment and creative problem-solving. This collaborative and multifaceted environment presents excellent opportunities to expand your expertise in the rapidly evolving digital music industry.

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To thrive as part of Spotify Legal, you need a law degree, experience in corporate law or intellectual property, and a strong understanding of digital media and technology regulations. Familiarity with legal research tools, contract management software, and relevant industry certifications is highly beneficial. Sharp negotiation, interpersonal, and problem-solving skills, along with clear written and verbal communication, help individuals excel in this role. These qualifications enable professionals to manage complex legal matters, protect the company's interests, and collaborate effectively with cross-functional teams.

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Infographic showing various Spotify Legal job openings in the United States as of August 2026, with employment types broken down into 1% As Needed, 83% Full Time, 14% Part Time, and 2% Contract. Highlights an 92% Physical, 2% Hybrid, and 6% Remote job distribution, with an average salary of $87,763 per year, or $42.2 per hour.

Engineering Manager - Music

Spotify

New York, NY

$164K - $234K/yr

Full-time

Medical, Retirement, PTO

Posted 24 days ago

Key responsibilities

  • Manage and support a team of engineers developing the core RightsDB database and related features.

  • Support ongoing RightsDB work, including implementing a Publishing Deny List and ingesting UGC rights via DDEX.

  • Partner with cross-functional stakeholders to define scope, roadmap, and priorities, and oversee platform operations to ensure system performance and security.

Job description

The Rights Systems team is driving the technical foundations of a step-change for Spotify's business by enabling the distribution of new forms of content across the platform. This challenge involves detection of rights-protected intellectual property and facilitating rightsholder and creator management of both the rights-protected IP and the secondary content.

The journey ahead will present the team with the chance to collaborate with teams across the company (Content Platform, Financial Engineering, Label Partnership, Licensing, and others) in order to create and present novel content datasets to end-users. As the product matures, the team will stretch as they scale to broader use cases and a larger user base.

Being a cornerstone of the company's catalog maximization strategy, the rights systems solution space will be an area of investment and growth for the company over the next 2-5 years.

What You'll Do
  • Manage and support a team of 7-8 engineers developing the core RightsDB, a new foundational database that serves as a centralized repository for copyright and rightsholder ownership data
  • Support ongoing RightsDB work, including enabling new video content to more automatically make its way to platform by implementing a Publishing Deny List (PDL) and ingesting UGC rights via DDEX
  • Provide mentorship, coaching, and technical guidance to team members to help them identify their growth path and develop their skills aligned to their goals
  • Foster a positive, inclusive, and growth-oriented culture where individuals feel empowered and supported in their careers
  • Partner closely with the product manager and cross-functional stakeholders (design, legal, rights operations) to define scope, roadmap, and priorities
  • Ensure alignment between business needs and technical implementation and establish squad technical strategy to support healthy delivery cycles
  • Manage timelines and ensure reliable, timely feature delivery while scaling project ownership across the team
  • Oversee platform operations including performance, security, incident response, and on-call rotations
  • Encourage a culture of experimentation, continuous improvement, and technical ownership
  • Collaborate with internal teams, including legal, rights operations, and content, to ensure the Spotify Rights Center evolves with regulatory needs and continues to meet expectations of rightsholders
Who You Are
  • You have 1+ years of experience managing software engineering teams, ideally in a product-focused and cross-functional setting
  • You have 5+ years of hands-on engineering experience, including web, backend, or full-stack development
  • You have experience working with web technologies, distributed systems, or cloud platforms
  • You are comfortable managing stakeholders from both technical and non-technical backgrounds
  • You have experience delivering outcomes in a highly collaborative environment
  • You care deeply about user experience, data accuracy, and system integrity, especially in legal or IP-sensitive domains
  • You have a growth mindset and a passion for building scalable systems
  • You support and empower your team to do their best work
  • You have familiarity with the music or media rights domain or similar IP-centric industries
  • You have familiarity with content management systems, legal compliance platforms, or large-scale data pipelines
  • You have familiarity with platform migrations, user access control models, or third-party integrations
Where You'll Be
  • We offer you the flexibility to work where you work best! For this role, you can be within the North Americas region as long as we have a work location.
  • This team operates within the Eastern Standard time zone for collaboration.
The United States base range for this position is $164,448 -$234,926 USD, plus equity. The benefits available for this position include health insurance, six-month paid parental leave, 401(k) retirement plan, monthly meal allowance, 23 paid days off, paid flexible holidays, and paid sick leave. These ranges may be modified in the future.

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.
 
We may use artificial intelligence (AI) tools to support parts of the hiring process, such as reviewing applications, analyzing resumes, or assessing responses. These tools assist our recruitment team but do not replace human judgment. Final hiring decisions are ultimately made by humans. If you would like more information about how your data is processed, please contact us. Find our AI notice here: https://lifeatspotify.com/ai-notice
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