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Principal Product Manager - Personalization
Spotify
Contract type
Ongoing
Work mode
Hybrid · Hybrid (inferred: EU/NL where applicable)
Experience
Senior · 8+ years
Job description
Key details
- Set the product strategy and multi-cycle roadmap for Search Personalization, spanning ranking, relevance, retrieval, AI-native features, quality, and trust
- Drive the evolution of Search toward AI-native experiences, including AI Overviews, semantic search, and LLM reranking, balancing innovation velocity with quality and cost discipline
- Own the Search quality bar by defining how relevance, trust, compliance, and user experience connect into a holistic quality framework with measurable outcomes
- Manage Search's role as a shared surface across many company strategies, building prioritization frameworks, communicating trade-offs, and representing Search at executive forums
- Influence and coach junior PMs working in Search
- Partner with engineering leadership to make architectural decisions that balance short-term delivery with long-term Search infrastructure health
- Drive cross-functional alignment where Search intersects
- Company mission
- Spotify is an equal opportunity employer committed to inclusivity, accessibility, and revolutionizing the way the world listens
Primary stack
Core technologies
Python (Programming Language)
Benefits
- Flexibility to work where you work best, with some in-person meetings and the ability to work from home
- Reasonable accommodations during the interview process
Requirements & details
- 8+ years of product management experience, with 3+ years leading search, discovery, or information retrieval products at scale (100M+ users)
- Deep technical understanding of search systems, including ranking architectures, retrieval strategies, evaluation methodology, and trade-offs between relevance, latency, cost, and freshness
- Experience with AI/ML-powered search features such as semantic search, LLM-based reranking, or recommendations, and ability to lead a team through the transition from traditional to AI-native search
- Track record of managing complex stakeholder landscapes with competing priorities and limited resources, and building frameworks for principled prioritization
- Strategic thinking at the portfolio level, with the ability to synthesize across many concurrent initiatives, set a coherent vision, and communicate it clearly to executives
- Clear and convincing communication, with the ability to translate technical complexity into compelling narratives for leadership, bet owners, and cross-functional partners
- Experience mentoring and developing early-career PMs, and influencing without authority or direct reporting lines
- Familiarity with music, audio, or media technology and the unique dynamics of content-rich platforms
- Experience operating Search as a platform that serves multiple internal teams or content verticals
- Experience in content integrity, trust & safety, or regulatory compliance in the context of search or discovery systems
- Based in London or Stockholm
- LLMs, AI Agents, Python (Programming Language)
- Python (Programming Language)