# Creative Lead, Visual Merchandising

**Company**: Spotify
**Work arrangement**: hybrid
**Experience**: senior
**Job type**: full-time
**Category**: Design
**Industry**: Technology

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## Description

The Platform team at Spotify creates technology that enables rapid growth and scaling. The Visual Merchandising team shapes how content looks and feels across the Spotify experience.

As a Creative Lead, you will define and evolve Spotify's global visual merchandising vision, combining world-class creative leadership with emerging technologies.

## Responsibilities

- Define and evolve Spotify's global visual merchandising vision, setting the creative direction for artwork, visual systems, and brand expression.

- Lead the continued evolution of creative workflows, identifying how AI can elevate creativity, quality, speed, and scalability.

- Partner with Product, Engineering, Design Platform, and R&D leaders to ensure merchandising and product innovation evolve together.

- Champion a visual strategy that keeps Spotify culturally relevant across over 180 markets.

- Establish creative principles, standards, and scalable systems that empower teams to deliver world-class visual experiences.

- Build strong partnerships with internal creative teams, external agencies, and freelance talent.

- Lead and develop a high-performing team of Senior Visual Designers.

- Own the team's operating budget and prioritize investments that deliver meaningful creative and business impact.

- Use audience insights, experimentation, and performance data to continuously improve the effectiveness of Spotify's visual merchandising strategy.

- Represent Visual Merchandising as a trusted creative partner across Spotify.

## Requirements

- 10+ years of experience leading creative work across design, art direction, branding, editorial, advertising, or visual storytelling.

- Experience building, leading, and developing exceptional creative teams.

- Understanding of emerging technologies, including generative AI, and their impact on creative strategy and production.

- Exceptional visual craft and strategic thinking, balancing creativity, business goals, and customer needs.

- Experience collaborating across product, design, engineering, marketing, and executive leadership teams.

- Comfortable using data, experimentation, and audience insights to inform creative decisions.

- Experience working across global markets and understanding cultural nuances.

- Strong mentoring and leadership skills.

## Location

- Based in London or Stockholm, with flexibility to work from home and occasional in-person meetings.

## Skills

### Required
- visual merchandising
- creative leadership
- emerging technologies
- AI
- design strategy
- team management

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