Principal Product Manager, Spotify
Audiobooks
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Commercial music streaming service
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Commercial music streaming service
1001+ employees
Job no longer available
More information about location
1001+ employees
Company mission
To unlock the potential of human creativity—by giving a million creative artists the opportunity to live off their art and billions of fans the opportunity to enjoy and be inspired by it
Role
Who you are
- You have significant experience in building and shipping consumer-facing software products together with teams of designers, engineers and data scientists. You deeply understand the nuances of both consumer- and creator-facing product management
- You have deep experience in making hard data-informed decisions (A/B experimentation, user testing, data analysis, competitors and market analysis, defining metrics)
- You are excited about working in a new, fast-paced and innovative space and are passionate about the opportunity to help authors and publishers grow their audience and make a living off of their audiobooks
- You’re a compelling storyteller who can communicate in succinct and inspiring ways to a variety of audience types
- You apply systems thinking and analytical expertise to develop product strategies
- You have a team-first approach and have developed techniques to ensure your teams are happy, motivated and productive
- You are comfortable working with distributed teams across multiple offices and timezones
- You are a highly creative problem solver; you always provide new ideas on how to do things better
What the job involves
- In this role, you will work with a cross-functional team from Design, Engineering, Product Insights, and Program Management to complete the roadmap for the audiobooks business at Spotify, focused on consumer-facing features that rely on tight integration and alignment with authors and publishers
- You will own the creation of the product strategy for each feature, and ensure that the product stays aligned to the strategy
- Own vision, goals, strategy, roadmaps and impact working towards the Audiobooks Vertical Mission
- Work closely with engineering, design, legal, analytics, and product, within your team and across the organization, to make sure your team understands what our short-term and long-term goals are, what the strategy to get there is, and ensure that the full end-to-end experience is top notch
- Commence qualitative and quantitative research, product analysis and market insights to craft impactful product strategies
- Ensure all features are closely aligned to both consumer and author/publisher needs
- Prioritize new features based on customer needs, business potential, and technical scalability
- Set and follow metrics that advise us of the success of the products and their impact on Spotify
- Ensure your team has a healthy balance of innovation, reducing technical debt and providing maintenance and support
- In the Audiobooks Mission, we believe that a foundation to a great consumer product is a great creator experience
- We build products and tools for Authors and Publishers to manage their presence on Spotify, and get unprecedented access to information about their content performance
- Later this year, we are launching Spotify for Authors, which will help us set an industry standard of developing direct relationships with authors
- We also collaborate with Missions across the company to ensure that we deliver a cohesive audiobooks listener experience and we invest in format innovations, specific to the Audiobooks content type
Our take
Spotify was founded in an attempt to combat the rampant music piracy that was causing significant harm to the industry. The company has since taken music streaming mainstream and now has 180m+ paying subscribers across the world.
With features that include a highly accessible interface and a vast catalogue of artists, Spotify's strong brand has been able to maintain growth in spite of fierce competition from deep-pocketed rivals like Amazon and Apple. The company has achieved this by making smart acquisitions to move into other verticals to strengthen its offerings, especially podcasting, by acquiring Gimlet Media, Anchor and Parcast.
Spotify's future plans include rapid growth with a goal to become a one-stop destination for all digital sound, as well as AI and NFT integrations. However, high costs incurred from the acquisition of exclusive podcasts, increasing competitor strength, and weak bottom-line growth mean that the company must find a balance to maintain its position in the sector.
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Company Specialist at Welcome to the Jungle
Insights
Few candidates hear
back within 2 weeks
23% employee growth in 12 months
Company
Funding (last 2 of 8 rounds)
Jan 2016
$1bn
CONVERTIBLE
Jun 2015
$526m
SERIES G
Total funding: $2.1bn
Company benefits
- Extensive learning opportunities, through our dedicated team, GreenHouse
- Flexible share incentives letting you choose how you share in our success
- Global parental leave, six months off - fully paid - for all new parents
- All The Feels, our employee assistance program and self-care hub
- Flexible public holidays, swap days off according to your values and beliefs
Company values
- Innovative: We move fast and take big risks
- Sincere: We have no time for internal politics
- Passionate: We revel in what we do
- Collaborative: We recognise that we're all in this together
- Playful: We don't take ourselves too seriously
Company HQ
Norrmalm, Stockholm, Stockholms län
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Leadership
Daniel Ek
(CEO & Chairman)Founded Spotify in 2006. Previously worked as an executive at Tradera, an auction company that was sold to eBay and was briefly the CEO of uTorrent.
People progressing
Joined as a Conversion Manager in the Growth Team. Promoted three times over seven years to Senior Director - Head of Growth.
Joined as a Customer Advisor. Since then has had the role titles Senior Advisor, Content Associate, Team Coach, and Operations Manager - Primary Support. Hurst is now currently the Business Operations Manager of Music.
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