Principal PM: AI-Driven Search Personalization (Remote)

Openkrill; United States; Hybrid; USD 180,000 - 260,000; Full time

Job summary

Spotify is seeking a Principal Product Manager to lead the Search Personalization within the Conversation Product Area, setting the strategy for how hundreds of millions of listeners discover content. Based in London or Stockholm, you will own end-to-end search results, from ranking to AI-powered features, and lead two squads.

You’ll balance innovation with quality and cost, mentor junior PMs, and work with engineering leaders to shape the platform for a content-rich experience across markets.

Qualifications

• 8+ years of product management experience, with 3+ years leading search, discovery, or information retrieval products at scale (100M+ users).
• Deep technical understanding of search systems — ranking architectures, retrieval strategies, evaluation methods, and trade-offs between relevance, latency, cost, and freshness.
• Experience with AI/ML-powered search features — semantic search, LLM-based reranking, recommendations, or similar.
• Proven ability to manage complex stakeholder landscapes with competing priorities and limited resources.
• Strategic, portfolio-level thinking with clear communication to executives.
• Experience mentoring and developing junior PMs and influencing without formal authority.
• Familiarity with music, audio, or media technology and content-rich platforms.

Responsibilities

• Set the product strategy and multi-cycle roadmap for Search Personalization, spanning ranking, relevance, retrieval, AI-native features, quality, and trust.
• Drive the evolution of Search toward AI-native experiences — AI Overviews, semantic search, LLM reranking.
• Own the Search quality bar: define how relevance, trust, compliance, and user experience connect into a holistic quality framework with measurable outcomes.
• Manage Search’s role as a shared surface across many company strategies — build prioritization frameworks, communicate trade-offs, and represent Search at executive forums.
• Influence and coach junior PMs working in Search.
• Partner with engineering leadership to make architectural decisions that balance short-term delivery with long-term Search infrastructure health.
• Drive cross-functional alignment where Search intersects.

Skills

Product management

Search systems

AI/ML search

Leadership

Stakeholder management

Strategic thinking

Mentoring PMs

Job description

Spotify is seeking a Principal Product Manager to lead the Search Personalization within the Conversation Product Area, setting the strategy for how hundreds of millions of listeners discover content. Based in London or Stockholm, you will own end-to-end search results, from ranking to AI-powered features, and lead two squads.

You’ll balance innovation with quality and cost, mentor junior PMs, and work with engineering leaders to shape the platform for a content-rich experience across markets.