Principal Product Manager

Technology, Data & Digital · Product & Design · Product Management

In short

Spotify seeks a Principal Product Manager to define the direction of its Core Experience Platform, ensuring seamless and joyful listening experiences for billions globally. This role involves strategic planning, cross-functional collaboration, and balancing technical improvements with new product opportunities to enhance platform capabilities and user satisfaction.

Responsibilities

Partner with engineering leaders 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.
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.

Requirements

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.
Familiarity with mobile development for iOS or Android, including areas such as app performance, reliability, user interface architecture, or design systems.
Experience guiding products or platforms beyond launch, improving adoption, managing technical debt, and supporting systems as needs evolve.
Ability to evaluate technical trade-offs and make thoughtful decisions about when to improve existing systems, simplify solutions, or invest in new capabilities.
Proficiency in using data, research, experimentation, and sound judgment to make product decisions, including when traditional A/B testing isn't the right approach.
Clear communication of complex ideas, welcoming different perspectives, and building strong relationships across engineering, design, and data teams.
Comfort navigating ambiguity, taking ownership of complex challenges, and adapting your approach as you learn.

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 - 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.

Skills

iOSAndroid

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About Spotify

Our mission is 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. Spotify transformed music listening forever when it launched in Sweden in 2008. Discover, manage and share over 70m tracks for free, or upgrade to Spotify Premium to access exclusive features including offline mode, improved sound quality, and an ad-free music listening experience. Today, Spotify is the most popular global audio streaming service with 365m users, including 165m subscribers…

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