Senior Product Manager, Spotify
Personalization Data Platform
$142.2-203.1k
+ Equity
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Commercial music streaming service
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Commercial music streaming service
1001+ employees
Be an early applicant
$142.2-203.1k
+ Equity
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 a proven track record of delivering large, complex platforms for internal customers
- A “Platform PM”, with a strong customer-centric approach for internal stakeholders
- Passionate about machine learning, data engineering and personalization (including familiarity with modern data structures, access patterns, and data-governance processes)
- Experienced in leading cross-functional teams spanning multiple disciplines, including engineering, design, ML, and business stakeholders
- Comfortable managing multiple workstreams or products in parallel, demonstrating coordination and prioritization across teams and partners
- A “systems thinker” who excels at navigating ambiguity, setting strategy, and prioritizing effectively in fast-moving technical domains
- A confident collaborator who builds strong, positive relationships with partners and team members at all levels
- A skilled, persuasive communicator, both in person and in writing
- Excited to be at the forefront of Spotify’s AI-first product evolution, with a focus on innovation, iteration, and impact
What the job involves
- We’re looking for a Senior Product Manager to work across 2 cross-functional squads, who own and operate this platform
- You’ll collaborate with both squads and work closely with a wide range of stakeholders to understand how best we can serve important use-cases across the business
- You’ll keep in lock-step with Spotify’s wider product vision for AI, and you’ll own the strategy for how our user-data will help bring this vision to life
- You’ll work within the “Recommendation Foundations” product area, within our “AI Foundations” organization
- Drive the product vision, product strategy and roadmap for our user-behaviour data platform, and foundational tools, all of which are foundational in Spotify’s personalization stack
- Partner with cross-functional teams—including engineering, ML research, and user research—to build and scale a wide range of datasets and services for internal customer-squads
- Lead important efforts within our company-wide initiative on building next-generation recommendation technologies
- Work with ML engineers and research scientists to Investigate, explore and evaluate emerging techniques and technologies in generative AI
- Partner with key collaborators across Spotify to align on what data is most important, and how to ingest, model and serve it
- Leverage experimentation and data to iterate quickly and drive continuous improvements
- Cultivate a culture of innovation and learning within the team, focusing the needs of your internal-customers
- Serve as a key evangelist for "AI-first" product thinking across Spotify and help craft the future of AI Product Management at Spotify
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.
Freddie
Company Specialist at Welcome to the Jungle
Insights
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 HQ
Norrmalm, Stockholm, Stockholms län
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.
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