Senior Product Manager - Personalization Knowledge

The Personalization team makes deciding what to play next easier and more enjoyable for every listener. From Blend to Discover Weekly, we’re behind some of Spotify’s most-loved features. We built them by understanding the world of music and podcasts better than anyone else. Join us and you’ll keep millions of users listening by making great recommendations to each and every one of them. We ask that our team members be physically located in Central European time or Eastern Standard/Daylight time zones for the purposes of our collaboration hours.

We are looking for a passionate Product Manager to join Spotify’s Personalization, Music knowledge team. In this role, you’ll be responsible for building the capabilities needed to generate world-class music recommendations to hundreds of millions of users. This includes models, tools, and data products that can represent music content and users as well as their relationships to ensure a relevant and delightful personalized experience. In this role, you will collaborate with highly skilled engineers to iterate on personalization knowledge products and evolve the platform by col with internal customer teams.

Who You Are

• You are experienced in making hard data-informed decisions (A/B testing and experimentation, data analysis, defining metrics)
• You are passionate about building products in a constantly evolving landscape and good at sorting out ambiguity
• You know how to inspire, motivate and support a team to get things done
• You have 5+ years of experience in building and shipping ML-driven products at scale together with teams of designers, engineers and data scientists
• You have developed intuitions but match that with deep analytical thinking and systems-level thinking to focus on the things that matter most and build long-lasting platform products
• Nice to have: Past experience working with audio content product recommendations or language technologies would be a huge plus
• You have delivered projects that have shown proven impact for your business

What You'll Do

• Prioritize new features based on user needs, alignment with the company’s short- and long-term goals, and technical platform scalability
• Define and drive the vision for the music knowledge team and the data that powers Spotify’s personalization.
• Define metrics and KPIs we will use to measure the success of the features your team builds
• Build a roadmap for the team by understanding our audience and the strategic needs for music recommendations by using data insights and working closely with stakeholders
• Make sure that your team is strong and healthy – including capabilities, happiness, resilience and growth

Where You'll Be

• We are a distributed workforce enabling our band members to find a work mode that is best for them!
• Working hours? We operate within the Eastern Standard time zone for collaboration and ask that all be located in that time zone.
• Where in the world? For this role, it can be within the Americas region in which we have a work location and is within working hours: https://lifeatspotify.com/locations
• Prefer an office to work from home instead? Not a problem! We have plenty of options for your working preferences. Find more information about our Work From Anywhere options here.

$134,481 - $192,116 a year

The United States base range for this position is XXX-XXXX, plus equity. The benefits available for this position include health insurance, six month paid parental leave, 401(k) retirement plan, monthly meal allowance, 23 paid days off, 13 paid flexible holidays. These ranges may be modified in the future.

The United States base range for this position is $134,481 - $192,116, plus equity. The benefits available for this position include health insurance, six month paid parental leave, 401(k) retirement plan, monthly meal allowance, 23 paid days off, 13 paid flexible holidays. These ranges may be modified in the future.

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.

Spotify transformed music listening forever when we launched in 2008. 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 chance to enjoy and be passionate about these creators. Everything we do is driven by our love for music and podcasting. Today, we are the world’s most popular audio streaming subscription service.