Principal Product Manager

Technology, Data & Digital · Product & Design · Product Management

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Spotify is looking for a Principal Product Manager to lead the vision and strategy for their consumer experience, focusing on how users discover music and podcasts. This hybrid role in New York requires 10+ years of experience in product management, with a deep understanding of discovery, personalization, and search systems. The ideal candidate will shape intuitive user experiences, drive cross-functional collaboration, and mentor other product leaders.

Product

Permanent

New York

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.

We’re seeking a Principal Product Manager to join our consumer experience team.  At Spotify, helping users decide what to play next is at the heart of the experience. This role focuses on shaping how people explore music, podcasts, and more—through intuitive, personalized, and engaging discovery experiences across the app.

As a Principal Product Management, you’ll work on some of Spotify’s most visible surfaces, connecting user intent, recommendations, and content into a seamless journey that helps millions of listeners find their next favorite thing

What You'll Do

  • Define and drive the long-term product vision for how users explore and decide what to play on Spotify

  • Shape discovery experiences across key consumer surfaces such as Home, Browse, and Search

  • Lead cross-surface strategy that connects personalized recommendations, editorial context, and user intent into a cohesive journey

  • Partner with engineering, design, and data science to evolve scalable discovery platforms and components used across Spotify

  • Identify opportunities to reduce decision friction and make exploration feel effortless and engaging

  • Influence roadmap and priorities across multiple teams, ensuring alignment with broader consumer experience strategy

  • Use experimentation, behavioral data, & user insights to inform strategy & continuously improve outcomes

  • Act as a senior product leader, mentoring others and raising the bar for product thinking, clarity, and impact

Who You Are

  • You have 10+ years of product management experience working on consumer-facing products

  • You have experience owning or influencing large product areas that span multiple teams or surfaces

  • You have a deep understanding of discovery, search, or personalization systems

  • You know how to turn complex systems into simple, intuitive user experiences

  • You are comfortable leading through influence in highly cross-functional environments

  • You care deeply about product craft and building high-quality user experiences at scale

  • You use data, experimentation, and judgment to guide decisions and strategy

  • You are a strong collaborator who builds alignment across engineering, design, and data partners

Where You'll Be

  • This role is based in New York, NY.

  • We offer you the flexibility to work where you work best! There will be some in person meetings, but still allows for flexibility to work from home.

Learn about life at Spotify

The United States base range for this position is $182,309.00- 260,441.00 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, paid sick leave. These ranges may be modified in the future

Our global 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 - 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.

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Company

Spotify

Job Posted

2 months ago

Employment Type

Full Time

WorkMode

Hybrid

Experience Level

Executive

Locations

New York, United States

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