Principal Product Manager - Content Platform
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Principal Product Manager - Content Platform
London / Stockholm
Product – Experience
Permanent
Hybrid
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About the Position
Content Platform is the foundation of Spotify’s experiences. We ensure our vast catalog of music, podcasts, audiobooks, video, and creator data is trusted, safe, and ready to power innovation across Spotify.
Our work spans content governance, platform safety, metadata, and machine learning systems that enable experiences such as Music Quiz, Playlist Mixes, Save to Spotify, and SongDNA. Every day, our platform helps teams across Spotify build better products for millions of listeners and creators.
As a Principal Product Manager, you will own strategy directly. In this role, you’ll shape long-term direction, partner closely with engineering, machine learning, design, and business leaders, and deliver platform capabilities that have company-wide impact.
Responsibilities
- Define and evolve product strategy for your domain using customer insights, data, and long-term platform thinking.
- Lead complex product initiatives from early discovery through delivery in partnership with engineering, machine learning, data science, and design teams.
- Partner with machine learning engineers to shape model strategy, training data, evaluation frameworks, and human-in-the-loop systems.
- Collaborate with stakeholders across Spotify to align priorities, influence roadmaps, and drive platform investments that create lasting value.
- Make thoughtful product decisions by balancing customer needs, technical complexity, business priorities, and long-term platform health.
- Champion platform safety, trust, regulatory compliance, and operational excellence as Spotify’s content ecosystem continues to grow.
- Help teams prioritize work that delivers the greatest long-term impact while maintaining focus on strategic outcomes.
- Communicate product vision, strategy, and progress clearly across technical and executive audiences.
Requirements
- Product Strategy: Extensive experience leading product strategy and large cross-functional initiatives in complex environments.
- Customer Insights: Ability to use customer insights to drive product decisions.
- Platform Thinking: Strong long-term platform thinking.
- Machine Learning: Experience working alongside machine learning teams.
- Data Science: Understanding of concepts such as model evaluation, precision and recall, and responsible AI development.
- Design: Ability to collaborate with design teams.
- Cross-functional Leadership: Experience in leading cross-functional initiatives.
- Systems Thinking: Ability to think in systems and solve complex platform challenges.
- Strategic Planning: Experience in building long-term product strategies.
- Communication: Effective communication with technical teams, business partners, and senior leaders.
Nice to Have
- Platform Safety: Experience in ensuring platform safety.
- Trust: Experience in building trust within the platform.
- Regulatory Compliance: Understanding of regulatory compliance.
- Operational Excellence: Experience in achieving operational excellence.
- Collaboration: Strong collaboration skills.
- Empathy: Ability to collaborate with empathy.
- Partnerships: Experience in building trusted partnerships.
We Offer
- Flexibility to work where you work best.
- Opportunities for professional growth and development.
- A diverse and inclusive workplace.
About the Company
Spotify is an equal opportunity employer. You are welcome at Spotify for who you are, no matter where you come from, what you look like, or what’s playing in your headphones. Our platform is for everyone, and so is our workplace. The more voices we have represented and amplified in our business, the more we will all thrive, contribute, and be forward-thinking! So bring us your personal experience, your perspectives, and your background. It’s in our differences that we will find the power to keep revolutionizing the way the world listens.
At Spotify, we are passionate about inclusivity and making sure our entire recruitment process is accessible to everyone. We have ways to request reasonable accommodations during the interview process and help assist in what you need. If you need accommodations at any stage of the application or interview process, please let us know - we’re here to support you in any way we can.
We may use artificial intelligence (AI) tools to support parts of the hiring process, such as reviewing applications, analyzing resumes, or assessing responses. These tools assist our recruitment team but do not replace human judgment. Final hiring decisions are ultimately made by humans. If you would like more information about how your data is processed, please contact us. Find our AI notice here: Spotify AI Notice
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