Principal Product Manager - Content Platform

Spotify; Greater London; Hybrid; GBP 140,000 - 210,000; Full time

Job summary

Spotify is seeking a Principal Product Manager to own strategy across core platform domains in Stockholm or London, with flexibility for remote work. You will partner with engineering, ML, design, and business leaders to deliver platform capabilities with company-wide impact.

You’ll shape long-term direction, balance priorities, and drive initiatives from discovery through delivery while ensuring safe, scalable, and trusted experiences for listeners and creators.

Qualifications

• Experience leading product strategy and large cross-functional initiatives.
• Ability to turn ambiguity into clear product direction.
• Experience collaborating with ML teams on model strategies and data needs.
• Strong communication with technical teams, business partners, and leaders.

Responsibilities

• Define and evolve product strategy using customer insights and data.
• Lead complex initiatives from discovery through delivery with engineering and ML teams.
• Partner with ML engineers to shape model strategy and data evaluation.
• Collaborate across Spotify to align roadmaps and platform investments.
• Make product decisions balancing customer needs, complexity, and long-term health.
• Champion platform safety, trust, and regulatory compliance.
• Prioritize work delivering long-term impact while maintaining focus on outcomes.
• Communicate vision and progress clearly to technical and executive audiences.

Skills

Product strategy

Cross-functional leadership

Systems thinking

Machine learning collaboration

Stakeholder alignment

Job description

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 Managers 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.

What You’ll Do

• 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.

Who You Are

• You thrive in highly autonomous environments and enjoy turning ambiguity into clear product direction.
• You have extensive experience leading product strategy and large cross-functional initiatives in complex environments, delivering measurable customer or business impact.
• You make thoughtful product decisions and clearly communicate the reasoning, trade-offs, and outcomes behind them.
• You think in systems and enjoy solving complex platform challenges that span multiple teams and technologies.
• You have experience building long-term product strategies where every investment strengthens future platform capabilities.
• You communicate effectively with technical teams, business partners, and senior leaders, building alignment across diverse stakeholders.
• You have experience working alongside machine learning teams and understand concepts such as model evaluation, precision and recall, and responsible AI development.
• You build trusted partnerships, collaborate with empathy, and create an environment where teams can do their best work.

Where You’ll Be

• This role is based in Stockholm or London.
• We offer you the flexibility to work where you work best! There will be some in person meetings, but still allows for flexibility to work from home.

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: https://lifeatspotify.com/ai-notice

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