Spotify has employed Taj Alavi as its international advertising and marketing head.
Alavi began within the place this month, based on her LinkedIn profile. Alavi and Spotify representatives weren’t instantly accessible for remark.
Between March 2019 and August 2020, Alavi was Uber’s senior director and international head of promoting communications. Since October, she has labored at monetary expertise firm Chime as VP of promoting and comms, based on her LinkedIn profile.
From December 2015 to December 2018, Alavi was head of worldwide model advertising and marketing at Instagram. She has additionally labored at Intuit, Johnson & Johnson and the Clorox Firm.
Final yr, Spotify employed Adam Grossberg as international head of company communications and status administration. Dustee Jenkins joined Spotify as its international communications chief in 2017.
Spotify, which went public on the New York Inventory Change in 2018, launched its reside audio app Greenroom this week on iOS and Android. The social audio app is just like Clubhouse, permitting customers to host reside conversations about sports activities, music and tradition. The app was constructed on Locker Room, which Betty Labs created and Spotify acquired in March.
In Q1, Spotify posted income of $2.6 billion, a 16% rise from the identical interval final yr however a 1% decline from This fall 2020 as its gross revenue additionally dipped from the year-ago interval.