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The Role
Own the long-term strategy for Spotify’s Content Platform, leading complex initiatives across content governance, platform safety, metadata, and machine learning systems. Partner with engineering, ML, data science, design, and business leaders to shape roadmaps, model strategies, evaluation frameworks, and platform capabilities. Drive strategic prioritization, regulatory compliance, operational excellence, and executive communication while delivering company-wide customer and business impact.
Summary Generated by Built In
Content Platform is the foundation of Spotify’s experiences. We ensure our vast catalog of music, podcasts, audiobooks, video, and creator data is trusted, safe, and ready to power innovation across Spotify.
Our work spans content governance, platform safety, metadata, and machine learning systems that enable experiences such as Music Quiz, Playlist Mixes, Save to Spotify and SongDNA. Every day, our platform helps teams across Spotify build better products for millions of listeners and creators.
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.
What You'll Do
- 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.
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.
Where You'll Be
- This role is based in Stockholm or London.
- 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.
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.
Skills Required
- Extensive experience leading product strategy and large cross-functional initiatives in complex environments
- Experience delivering measurable customer or business impact
- Experience building long-term product strategies and platform capabilities
- Experience working alongside machine learning teams
- Understanding of model evaluation, precision and recall, and responsible AI development
- Ability to communicate effectively with technical teams, business partners, and senior leaders
- Ability to operate autonomously and turn ambiguity into clear product direction
- Ability to solve complex platform challenges spanning multiple teams and technologies
Spotify Compensation & Benefits Highlights
The following summarizes recurring compensation and benefits themes identified from responses generated by popular LLMs to common candidate questions about Spotify and has not been reviewed or approved by Spotify.
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Flexible Benefits — Employees consistently praise the total compensation package beyond base salary, highlighting a mix of RSUs, cash incentives, and stipends alongside core pay. The package is described as flexible and customizable through equity choices (e.g., RSUs, options, cash) that can be tailored for long-term wealth building.
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Leave & Time Off Breadth — Time-off offerings are repeatedly highlighted as substantial, including generous vacation, paid sick days, volunteer time, and flexible holidays. These policies are framed as a meaningful part of the overall rewards experience beyond salary.
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Healthcare Strength — Health coverage is portrayed as comprehensive, spanning medical, dental, vision, life insurance, disability coverage, and mental health support. Additional employer contributions to HSAs are cited as strengthening the overall health and wellness value proposition.
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The Company
What We Do
Spotify transformed music listening forever when it launched in Sweden in 2008. Discover, manage and share over 50m tracks for free, or upgrade to Spotify Premium to access exclusive features including offline mode, improved sound quality, and an ad-free music listening experience.
