Why This Job is Featured on The SaaS Jobs
This Finance Program Manager role stands out in a SaaS-adjacent environment where subscription economics and product delivery are tightly linked to financial planning. The remit spans Finance and Engineering, signalling work that sits close to how a platform business translates strategy into operating rhythms, governance, and measurable execution across multiple product areas and time zones.
For a SaaS career, the durable value is learning how to run portfolio-level programs that connect technical delivery with finance outcomes—an increasingly common requirement as companies mature their internal tooling, reporting, and cross-functional decision-making. The emphasis on initiative maturity, risk management, and stakeholder alignment maps to the operating system many SaaS organizations rely on to coordinate roadmaps, forecasting, and investment trade-offs at scale.
This role is best suited to program managers who prefer broad, systems-oriented problems over single-team delivery, and who are comfortable influencing without direct authority. It will appeal to professionals who enjoy building structure—forums, cadences, and shared artifacts—so leaders across Finance and R&D can make clearer decisions and track progress consistently from discovery through delivery.
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Job Description
The Finance Program Ops team at Spotify is looking for an experienced Program Management professional to drive strategic execution of key programs across our core Finance and Engineering teams and other company verticals.
You will be responsible for facilitating collaboration between global teams, working with the mission leadership to drive large-scale company-wide initiatives, and ensuring alignment on initiative execution for longer term business strategies.
Your work will span multiple time zones and product areas, so we expect end-to-end oversight and management to stay aligned from discovery to delivery. To be successful in this role, you must build trust, establish rapport, and maintain communication with partners in multiple levels and groups. Your strength should lie in seeing a comprehensive perspective and understand how all the moving parts relate to then systematize it into a functioning program.
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What You'll Do- Manage portfolio of key initiatives across Spotify in alignment with mission leadership, under deadlines and competing priorities and various states of maturity
- Partner closely with stakeholders across Finance (Accounting, Tax, FP&A), R&D (Engineering, Product), other vertical leads and fellow Program Managers to help communicate business strategies to the wider organization
- Communicate effectively with multiple levels including executive leadership team
- Influence key decision making with internal and cross-functional decision makers
- Monitor the effectiveness and progress of key initiatives and lead select initiatives personally and collaboratively
- Drive alignment in our Mission by developing, facilitating, and sustaining forums for cross functional discussions, decisions making, and knowledge sharing
- Streamline ongoing finance initiative needs (tooling, reporting, risk management, cross functional engagement, planning, etc.) and track progress towards long-term goals
- Support planning across the Company and Finance mission to ensure accurate sizing of work, surface and actively manage risks, blockers, decisions and escalations
- Understand Mission and company-wide initiatives and ensure our product area can build strategic, mutually beneficial relationships with other areas of Spotify, help communicate business strategies to the wider organization
Who You Are- 6+ years of experience in Program Management, focused within Finance domain, Tech delivery and/or Strategy Operations
- Hands-on experience delivering software development programs, working with Finance, Product and Engineering orgs
- Experience with implementations, running/representing large, cross-functional initiatives and easily communicate strategies, goals, and progress status
- Able to lead multiple concurrent projects in an agile, fast-paced, frequently evolving environment
- Resilient, structured, organized and excellent attention to detail
- Exceptional communicator and influencer that reduces noise, identify and remove blockers, encourage collaboration, and continuously improve our ways of working
- Experience with following is a plus: Jira, Coda, LucidChart, Agile, SDLC, CI/CD, ERPs
Where You'll Be- This role is based in NYC
- 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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The United States base range for this position is $119,210 - $170,300, 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, 13 paid flexible holidays. This range encompasses multiple levels. Leveling is determined during the interview process. Placement in a level depends on relevant work history and interview performance. 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.
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.
