Barry Wright, III
The pandemic has accelerated lots of trends that were already playing out. For technologists and knowledge workers, one of the highest-profile shifts has been the move to make remote work a norm.
This has started at the top: One-by-one, the household-name tech companies have turned pandemic WFH shifts into long-term policies that are allowing remote work to become more permanent, and opening up hiring in cities beyond the Silicon Valley and New York HQs where many of these companies are clustered.
So we got interested on hearing about a recent new role for Baltimore-based technologist Barry Wright, III: In mid-March, he joined Spotify. Wright is the group product manager in the audio streaming company’s content platform division. As he puts it, responsibilities include “setting product strategy, managing and developing a team of product managers, and delivering products to Spotify’s internal teams responsible for ensuring the quality, safety, and legality of the Spotify audio catalog,” which includes music and podcasts.
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