Senior Product Manager - Local Developer Tooling

Spotify; Greater London; Hybrid; GBP 150,000 - 200,000; Full time

Job summary

A global music streaming service is seeking a Senior Product Manager to lead backend developer tooling initiatives. In this role, you will drive the strategy for local developer experience, collaborate with various teams, and measure success metrics to enhance the efficiency and effectiveness of Spotify engineers. Ideal candidates are passionate about the developer experience and have a strong understanding of industry trends, including AI. This role can be based in London.

Qualifications

• Experience driving product strategies from inception to delivery.
• Curiosity about AI's impact on developer experience.
• Passionate about building high-quality developer experiences.

Responsibilities

• Drive a vision for local developer experience.
• Understand backend developer user needs.
• Define and measure success metrics.

Skills

AI impact understanding

Product strategy development

Developer experience evangelism

Job description

We’re looking for an experienced product manager to lead our local developer tooling initiatives with the Beatroot squad in Spotify’s Backend Experience and Tools product area - a part of Spotify’s Core Infrastructure team dedicated to making sure Spotify's developers efficiently and reliably manage their backend services.

As a Senior Product Manager you are responsible for crafting and implementing our product strategy in the backend developer experience domain. You will work with multiple teams and be accountable for defining and tracking critical metrics for measuring the overall impact and success.

What You'll Do

• Drive a vision and strategy for local developer experience that meets the needs of Spotify engineering teams and operates at scale.
• Deeply understand the backend developer user needs of Spotify’s many engineering teams, and how those needs impact the Spotify business.
• Stay on top of technology developments (think AI, Open Source and other industry trends) and evolve the service level platforms accordingly.
• Define & measure success metrics, which will serve to inform ongoing investments & product decisions.
• Ensure that your team is doing the highest impact things, and has a healthy balance of innovation, reducing technical debt and providing maintenance and support.
• Collaborate with key partners across the organization (platform, security, architecture, procurement, finance, etc) to grow the impact to the company’s short- and long-term goals.
• Partner with other product managers across the org to provide a world-class user experience for Spotify engineers.

Who You Are

• You are curious and excited about the AI impact on developer experience and the software development life cycle.
• You have experience driving product strategies from inception to delivery.
• You are passionate about building outstanding experiences and understand what a phenomenal platform that meets these needs looks like.
• You enjoy being a “developer evangelist” — serving as a champion for engineers and promoting their voice in the conversation.

Where You'll Be

• We are a distributed workforce enabling our band members to find a work mode that is best for them!
• Where in the world? This role should be located in Stockholm or London.
• Working hours? We operate within the Central European timezone for collaboration and ask that all be located in that time zone.