Principal Product Manager

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

What the job involves

• 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
• 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

Benefits

• Extensive learning opportunities, through our dedicated team, GreenHouse
• Flexible share incentives letting you choose how you share in our success
• Global parental leave, six months off - fully paid - for all new parents
• All The Feels, our employee assistance program and self-care hub
• Flexible public holidays, swap days off according to your values and beliefs