Senior Product Manager - Core Experience
Job description
A Senior Technical Product Manager role in Spotify's Core Experience area, on the What to Play team, shaping the systems behind listening experiences from content distribution and mobile app architecture to shared UI capabilities. The role connects technical investments to listener needs and Spotify's broader goals.
At a glance
- Work mode
- Remote
What you'll do
- Define the product vision, strategy, and roadmap for your area, connecting technical investments to listener needs and Spotify's broader goals.
- Partner with engineering teams to explore technical solutions, evaluate trade-offs, and guide decisions that improve product performance, reliability, and scalability.
- Develop shared platform capabilities that help teams build consistent, high-quality experiences across Spotify.
- Improve the adoption and long-term value of platform capabilities by gathering feedback, measuring outcomes, and supporting teams that use them.
- Balance new product opportunities with technical improvements, including system performance, quality, simplification, and platform migrations.
- Collaborate with Design, Data Science, and User Research to understand user needs, define success measures, and make informed product decisions.
- Use experimentation, prototypes, technical exploration, and feedback to test ideas, learn quickly, and adapt your approach.
- Build alignment across teams by communicating priorities, dependencies, and trade-offs clearly, helping partners work toward shared outcomes.
What we're looking for
- 5+ years of product management experience, including experience building or improving technical platforms, shared systems, or capabilities that support consumer products.
- Understand client and backend technologies and can work with engineers to connect technical decisions to user needs and business outcomes.
- Familiar with mobile development for iOS or Android, including areas such as app performance, reliability, user interface architecture, instrumentation, or design systems.
- Experience guiding products or platforms beyond launch, improving adoption, managing technical debt, and supporting systems as needs evolve.
- Can evaluate technical trade-offs and make thoughtful decisions about when to improve existing systems, simplify solutions, or invest in new capabilities.
- Use data, research, experimentation, and sound judgment to make product decisions, including when traditional A/B testing isn't the right approach.
- Communicate complex ideas clearly, welcome different perspectives, and build strong relationships across engineering, design, and data teams.
- Comfortable navigating ambiguity, taking ownership of complex challenges, and adapting your approach as you learn.
Your team
What to Play team, within Core Experience
Builds the technology and shared capabilities that help Spotify deliver intuitive, reliable, and consistent listening experiences.
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About Spotify
Spotify designs its consumer experience end to end, moment to moment, across every screen, platform, and partner integration—from mobile and desktop apps to smart speakers, TVs, cars, and integrations.
Mission
To make listening feel effortless, personal, and joyful for billions of users around the world.