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Manager, Technical Advertising Solutions - EMEA

Posted 26 days ago

OfficeLondonSE
Sell what you love. For us and millions of users across the globe, that’s Spotify. Join the Sales team and you’ll build the relationships that help grow our business in existing markets and beyond. We don’t just sell creative solutions to our clients and partners, we help to shape them; using our expert knowledge of ad products, sales channels and the industry to impact the way the world experiences music and podcasts. 

We're looking for a Manager, Technical Advertising Solutions to lead a team responsible for ensuring the successful delivery of advertising campaigns across Spotify's Ads business. You'll partner closely with Sales, Product, Engineering, buyers, and DSP partners to solve complex technical challenges across our Programmatic and Direct advertising products, improve campaign performance, and help scale a world-class advertising platform.

The Manager, Technical Advertising Solutions will serve as the operational and technical lead for their regional team — driving quality, optimizing campaign delivery, and fostering strong partnerships with internal and external stakeholders. This role works in close coordination with our offshore support teams and reports to the Head of Global Advertising Solutions (Programmatic & Direct).

### What You'll Do
  • Lead and manage a regional team of troubleshooting and QA professionals focused on programmatic and direct advertising campaigns
  • Partner with Product and Sales Training teams to support new product launches, identify skill gaps, and build scalable training programs and operational documentation.
  • Work cross-functionally with Sales, Product, and Engineering teams to optimize digital advertising campaign delivery and resolve technical issues
  • Partner with buyers and DSP partners to troubleshoot and resolve campaign delivery challenges
  • Lead collaboration with global support teams to deliver high-quality campaign operations and consistent customer outcomes
  • Own the regional ticket-based support workflow, maintaining quality and SLA standards across the team
  • Drive structured QA processes and develop best practices for programmatic and direct ad campaign troubleshooting
  • Serve as a regional escalation point for complex technical issues impacting ad delivery and campaign performance
  • Identify recurring campaign and platform issues and partner with Product, Engineering, and Ad Product Quality teams to drive long-term solutions.
  • ### Who You Are
  • You have 5+ years of experience in digital advertising, including 3+ years working with programmatic advertising solutions.
  • You have experience leading, coaching, and developing high-performing technical or operational teams.; experience partnering with globally distributed support teams is a plus
  • You have experience in Ad Operations at a Publisher, SSP, and/or DSP — DSP experience is a strong plus
  • You have experience building strong cross-functional relationships across go-to-market teams such as Sales and Customer Success
  • You have strong technical knowledge of the digital ads ecosystem, including ad serving, programmatic buying, campaign delivery, and measurement
  • You have experience working on a ticket-based support or operations system
  • You have customer service or client-facing experience, with a track record of managing stakeholder expectations under pressure
  • You are highly adaptable to new systems, platforms, and technologies
  • You have strong knowledge of the broader digital advertising industry landscape, including DSPs, SSPs, DMPs, and ad verification tools 
  • ### Where You'll Be
  • We offer you the flexibility to work where you work best! For this role, you can be within the EMEA region as long as we have a work location. Ideally based in London, UK
  • This team operates between the GMT and EST time zones for collaboration.
  • 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.
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    Location
    London
    Experience
    SE

    Deliver creativity to the world -- one note, one voice, one idea at a time. At Spotify, we focus relentlessly on building the best and most valuable experience available anywhere, enhancing every moment by connecting the world to the art and the creatives who shape it. Spotify transformed music listening forever when it launched in Sweden in 2008. 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. 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.

    Employees
    18874
    Industry
    Musicians
    Headquarters
    Stockholm, Stockholm County
    Founded
    2006

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