Head of Engineering, Deezer

Customer and Monetization

Salary not provided
Expert level
Paris

Office located in Rue de Calais, Paris

Deezer

Audio streaming platform

Be an early applicant

Deezer

Audio streaming platform

501-1000 employees

B2CMusicContentEntertainmentMobileCommunity

Be an early applicant

Salary not provided
Expert level
Paris

Office located in Rue de Calais, Paris

501-1000 employees

B2CMusicContentEntertainmentMobileCommunity

Company mission

Deezer's mission is to bring audiences and artists together by embodying the thrill, intimacy, and delight of music discovery.

Role

Who you are

  • Proven experience as a Head of Engineering or similar leadership role in application development
  • Excellent communication and interpersonal skills, with the ability to collaborate effectively with cross-functional teams
  • Proven track record of delivering and maintaining successful and innovative applications
  • Demonstrated success in leading and managing high-performing engineering teams
  • Strong interest in business (acquisition, lead, conversion, payment, churn, advertising, crm, …)

What the job involves

  • Customer & Monetization oversees the product and technical aspects of acquiring new members, registration, onboarding, monetizing the free service through advertisements, and managing subscriptions
  • This business unit collaborates with numerous stakeholders, particularly the Marketing Performance, CRM, Brand Partnership, and Revenue teams
  • Within Customer & Monetization, there are several specialized teams: Conversion, Data, Messaging (Ads + CRM), Payment, and User Growth. Comprising around 40 individuals with technical and QA expertise, this unit is crucial in driving user acquisition and revenue generation
  • As the Head of Engineering, your responsibility is to lead this team effectively
  • This includes ensuring their commitment and successful delivery, coordinating with other product and technology teams to assist them in fulfilling their objectives, maintaining the codebase, step-by-step realization of our product vision and the achievement of our business objectives
  • Lead and engage a large technical team
  • Work closely with the Head of Product and the Head of Payment
  • Inspire, drive and develop Engineering Managers
  • Ensure the technical work is following the industry standard
  • Support Engineering Managers in all aspects of their mission

Our take

Deezer is a listening app that lets users stream music, podcasts, and radio stations from multiple devices, also offering recommendations and smart playlists. This makes it a competitor of a giant in the sector, Spotify. While Deezer and Spotify are comparable in many respects such as interface, content music discovery features and pricing, Deezer currently has an edge in sound quality. However, it lacks the paying customer base of Spotify - while it has a healthy 16 million paid subscribers, Spotify is roughly ten times larger.

Neither company specialises in terms of media or region, so it’s hard to see how Deezer could carve itself out a distinct niche, and it risks falling behind in integrations with third-party platforms due to its relatively small market share. A major data breach of customer information in 2022 was badly handled, which won't help matters.

There is, however, an outside chance that Spotify could fall victim to their own success, having come under fire in recent years for its poor relationships with the artists on its platform. With a solid platform and considerable funding from a SPAC IPO Placement in 2022, Deezer may find itself in a position to pick up some of the windfall customers from fans dissatisfied with Spotify's response to this and other issues swirling around the giant.

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11% employee growth in 12 months

Company

Funding (last 2 of 7 rounds)

Aug 2018

$178.9m

LATE VC

Jan 2016

$111.8m

SERIES E

Total funding: $534.7m

Company benefits

  • Start-up environment and philosophy
  • Highly motivated and product-focused people ready to drive innovation
  • In-house Deezer Sessions with your favourite artists, gig tickets
  • Hackathons & meetups
  • Friday drinks, summer and winter parties
  • A stocked kitchen with free drinks and snacks
  • Areas to relax and collaborate with beanbags, guitars and table football
  • An ‘at home’ vibe, with great outdoor spaces
  • Gym access, with lunch-time yoga, pilates and thai boxing classes
  • A Deezer premium family account for free
  • Allowance for sports, travelling and culture
  • Meal vouchers

Company HQ

Saint-Georges, Paris, France

Leadership

Previously MD at Paddy Power Betfair, who went on to serve as CEO at Affinitas and then Spark Networks.

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