Senior Product Manager – Core Experience

Spotify; United States; Hybrid; USD 140,000 - 210,000; Full time

Job summary

Spotify is seeking a Senior Technical Product Manager to shape the systems behind core listening experiences. You will work with engineering and design to build scalable, flexible platform capabilities and define success metrics across Spotify’s consumer products.

You’ll collaborate with Data Science and User Research to balance new opportunities with technical debt, improve performance, and support teams relying on shared infrastructure.

Qualifications

• 5+ years of product management experience, including building or improving technical platforms and shared capabilities.
• Experience working with engineers to connect technical decisions to user needs and business outcomes.
• Familiarity with mobile app performance, UI architecture, and design systems is a plus.
• Experience guiding products beyond launch, managing technical debt, and evolving systems as needs grow.

Responsibilities

• Define the product vision, strategy, and roadmap for your area, linking technical investments to user needs and company goals.
• Partner with engineering to explore technical solutions, trade-offs, and decisions that improve performance, reliability, and scalability.
• Develop shared platform capabilities to enable teams to deliver consistent, high-quality experiences.
• Improve adoption and value of platform capabilities by gathering feedback and measuring outcomes.
• Collaborate with Design, Data Science, and User Research to understand needs and define success metrics.
• Lead with experimentation, prototypes, and data to test ideas and adapt approaches.

Skills

Product management

Data-driven decisions

Cross-functional collaboration

Mobile platforms experience

Technical intuition

Tools

A/B testing tools

Analytics platforms

Job description

We design Spotify’s consumer experience—end to end, moment to moment, across every screen, platform, and partner integration. Our mission is to make listening feel effortless, personal, and joyful for billions of users around the world. That means turning complexity into clarity across hundreds of touchpoints—from our mobile and desktop apps to the smart speakers, TVs, cars, and integrations where Spotify shows up every day. If it touches a consumer, we shape it. We bring deep insight into human behavior, design, and technology to craft experiences that feel intuitive, expressive, and unmistakably Spotify.

Core Experience shapes how millions of people discover, choose, and enjoy what to play on Spotify every day. Within Core Experience, our What to Play team builds the technology and shared capabilities that help Spotify deliver intuitive, reliable, and consistent listening experiences.

We’re looking for a Senior Technical Product Manager to shape the systems behind these experiences, from content distribution and mobile app architecture to shared user interface capabilities. You’ll work closely with engineering and cross-functional partners to improve how Spotify works today while building flexible, scalable foundations for the future.

What You’ll Do

• Define the product vision, strategy, and roadmap for your area, connecting technical investments to listener needs and Spotify’s broader goals.
• Partner with engineering teams 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.
• Collaborate with Design, Data Science, and User Research to understand user needs, define success measures, and make informed product decisions.
• 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.

Who You Are

• You have 5+ years of product management experience, including experience building or improving technical platforms, shared systems, or capabilities that support consumer products.
• You understand client and backend technologies and can work with engineers to connect technical decisions to user needs and business outcomes.
• You’re familiar with mobile development for iOS or Android, including areas such as app performance, reliability, user interface architecture, instrumentation, or design systems.
• You have experience guiding products or platforms beyond launch, improving adoption, managing technical debt, and supporting systems as needs evolve.
• You can evaluate technical trade-offs and make thoughtful decisions about when to improve existing systems, simplify solutions, or invest in new capabilities.
• You use data, research, experimentation, and sound judgment to make product decisions, including when traditional A/B testing isn’t the right approach.
• You communicate complex ideas clearly, welcome different perspectives, and build strong relationships across engineering, design, and data teams.
• You’re comfortable navigating ambiguity, taking ownership of complex challenges, and adapting your approach as you learn.

Where You’ll Be

• We offer you the flexibility to work where you work best! For this role, you can be within the EMEA region as long as we have a work location (excluding France due to on-call restrictions).
• This team operates within the Central European and GMT time zone for collaboration.

Additional Information

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.