--- title: Spotify Just Offered Barack Obama a New Job as 'President of Playlists' description: Last week, President Barack Obama joked that he hoped for a job at Spotify after leaving office. Spotify CEO Daniel Ek responded with a job offer as President of Playlists. authors: - name: Brad Tuttle role: Senior Editor url: https://money.com/author/brad-tuttle/ bio: Brad Tuttle is a former senior editor at Money with over 10 years’ experience covering a vast number of personal finance topics, including careers, cars, travel, budgeting, investing, insurance, credit cards, consumer psychology, real estate, banking, and shopping and deals. education: Columbia University School of Journalism, MS at_money_since: 2014 articles: 366 covers: - Lifestyle - Banking - Business - Career Advice - Credit - Credit Cards - Economy and Politics - Education - Health and Wellness - Housing - Identity Theft - Insurance - Investing - Loans - Mortgages - Personal Finance - Pets - Professional Services - Retirement - Shopping - Taxes - Technology social: - https://twitter.com/bradrtuttle - https://linkedin.com/in/brad-tuttle-834b225 former_staff: true published: '2017-01-09T20:17:24.000Z' modified: '2024-04-17T04:58:20.000Z' section: Lifestyle tags: - goofs - laughs - Music - music streaming - Obama - politics - POTUS word_count: 323 canonical: https://money.com/barack-obama-spotify-job-president-of-playlists/ type: Article source: structured-blocks --- > **Disclosure:** We research all brands listed and may earn a fee from our partners. Research and financial considerations may influence how brands are displayed. Not all brands are included. [Learn more](https://money.com/page/disclaimer/). ![Malia Obama Celebrates 18th Birthday At White House July Fourth Party](https://img.money.com/2017/01/barackmaliaobama-em-544943108.jpg) *President Barack Obama hugs his daughter Malia Obama on her birthday, celebrated on July 4, 2016. The holiday party featured artists including Janelle Monae and Kendrick Lamar.* The music-streaming service Spotify has a new job opening, and it appears as if only one person on earth has a chance of getting the gig. Among the qualifications for the position, entitled the [President of Playlists](https://www.spotify.com/us/jobs/view/o0CA4fw0/), are "at least eight years experience running a highly-regarded nation," plus a "good team spirit, excellent work ethic, a friendly and warm attitude, and a Nobel Peace Prize." Spotify also states that the candidate must have "experience in programming playlists at a federal level," including "anything from an [eclectic summer playlist](https://www.whitehouse.gov/blog/2016/08/10/listen-president-obamas-summer-playlist), to a celebratory, 'I just found my birth certificate' playlist." To get the job, you must have plenty of contacts in the music business too. "Ever had Kendrick Lamar play at your birthday bash? We’d love to hear about it!" the job listing states. Quite obviously, the position—intended as a fun goof—is directed at one specific individual who is about to be out of work: President Barack Obama. Obama [won the Nobel Prize](http://swampland.time.com/2009/12/10/barack-obamas-nobel-prize-speech-transcript/) in 2009, and, we must point out, [Kendrick Lamar performed](https://time.com/4392807/president-obama-malia-birthday-white-house-fourth-july/) at the White House on the birthday of Obama's daughter Malia, not the president himself. But we suppose that's close enough. President Obama, who has [created Spotify playlists](https://www.whitehouse.gov/blog/2016/08/10/listen-president-obamas-summer-playlist) in the past, has expressed some (mock) interest in working for the company. "I'm still waiting for my job at Spotify," Obama [joked last week](http://www.billboard.com/articles/business/7647975/spotify-president-playlists-job-barack-obama) during a meeting with Mark Brzezinski, the former ambassador to Sweden, where Spotify was first launched. "Cuz' I know y'all loved my playlist." Spotify took things from there, with CEO [Daniel Ek tweeting](https://twitter.com/eldsjal/status/818501713665650688) the tongue-in-cheek job posting on Monday: No salary is listed for the position. Whoever gets the job will be expected to "provide world-class leadership to our playlist editors and supporting staff." A successful candidate must also "analyze data and performance of playlists in a clear and transparent manner using all available intelligence" and "attend daily briefings"—requirements that might rule out certain other high-profile world leaders. ```json { "@context": "https://schema.org", "@graph": [ { "@type": "BreadcrumbList", "@id": "https://money.com/barack-obama-spotify-job-president-of-playlists/#breadcrumb", "itemListElement": [ { "@type": "ListItem", "position": 1, "name": "Home", "item": "https://money.com" }, { "@type": "ListItem", "position": 2, "name": "Lifestyle", "item": "https://money.com/lifestyle/" }, { "@type": "ListItem", "position": 3, "name": "Music", "item": "https://money.com/music/" }, { "@type": "ListItem", "position": 4, "name": "Spotify Just Offered Barack Obama a New Job as 'President of Playlists'" } ] }, { "@type": "WebSite", "@id": "https://money.com/#website", "url": "https://money.com", "name": "Money", "publisher": { "@id": "https://money.com/#organization" } }, { "@type": "WebPage", "@id": "https://money.com/barack-obama-spotify-job-president-of-playlists/#webpage", "url": "https://money.com/barack-obama-spotify-job-president-of-playlists/", "name": "Spotify Just Offered Barack Obama a New Job as 'President of Playlists'", "isPartOf": { "@id": "https://money.com/#website" }, "datePublished": "2017-01-09T20:17:24.000Z", "mainEntity": { "@id": "https://money.com/barack-obama-spotify-job-president-of-playlists/" }, "inLanguage": "en-US", "breadcrumb": { "@id": "https://money.com/barack-obama-spotify-job-president-of-playlists/#breadcrumb" }, "dateModified": "2024-04-17T04:58:20.000Z" }, { "@type": "Article", "headline": "Spotify Just Offered Barack Obama a New Job as 'President of Playlists'", "articleSection": "Lifestyle", "image": [ { "@type": "ImageObject", "url": "https://img.money.com/2017/01/barackmaliaobama-em-544943108.jpg", "width": 3914, "height": 2547, "caption": "Malia Obama Celebrates 18th Birthday At White House July Fourth Party" } ], "author": [ { "@type": "Person", "name": "Brad Tuttle", "url": "https://money.com/author/brad-tuttle/", "@id": "https://money.com/author/brad-tuttle/#author", "description": "Brad Tuttle is a former senior editor at Money with over 10 years’ experience covering a vast number of personal finance topics, including careers, cars, travel, budgeting, investing, insurance, credit cards, consumer psychology, real estate, banking, and shopping and deals.\r\n\r\n", "image": "https://img.money.com/2014/01/Brad-Tuttle.png?w=226&h=247&crop=1", "alumniOf": "Columbia University School of Journalism, MS", "sameAs": [ "https://twitter.com/bradrtuttle", "https://linkedin.com/in/brad-tuttle-834b225" ] } ], "publisher": "https://money.com/#organization", "datePublished": "2017-01-09T20:17:24.000Z", "description": "Last week, President Barack Obama joked that he hoped for a job at Spotify after leaving office. 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