Description
The Personalization team at Spotify makes deciding what to play next easier and more enjoyable for every listener. We're behind some of Spotify's most-loved features, including Blend and Discover Weekly. As a Principal Product Manager, you will lead the Search Personalization within our Conversation Product Area, setting the product strategy for how hundreds of millions of users find and discover content on Spotify.
You will own the end-to-end strategy for search results , from ranking and relevance to AI-powered features like semantic search, LLM reranking, and AI Overviews , while leading two key Search squads (results ranking and query suggestions).
Responsibilities:
- Set the product strategy and multi-cycle roadmap for Search Personalization at Spotify , spanning ranking, relevance, retrieval, AI-native features, quality, and trust.
- Drive the evolution of Search toward AI-native experiences , AI Overviews, semantic search, LLM reranking , balancing innovation velocity with quality and cost discipline.
- Own the Search quality bar: define how relevance, trust, compliance, and user experience connect into a holistic quality framework with measurable outcomes.
- Manage Search's role as a shared surface across many company strategies , build prioritization frameworks, communicate trade-offs, and represent Search at executive forums.
- Influence and coach junior PMs working in Search.
- Partner with engineering leadership to make architectural decisions that balance short-term delivery with long-term Search infrastructure health.
- Drive cross-functional alignment where Search intersects.
Requirements:
- 8+ years of product management experience, with 3+ years leading search, discovery, or information retrieval products at scale (100M+ users).
- Deep technical understanding of search systems , ranking architectures, retrieval strategies, evaluation methodology, and the trade-offs between relevance, latency, cost, and freshness.
- Experience with AI/ML-powered search features , semantic search, LLM-based reranking, recommendations, or similar , and can lead a team through the transition from traditional to AI-native search.
- Track record of managing complex stakeholder landscapes with competing priorities and limited resources, and can build frameworks for principled prioritization.
- Strategic thinking at the portfolio level , synthesizing across many concurrent initiatives, setting a coherent vision, and communicating it clearly to executives.
- Clear and convincing communication, with the ability to translate technical complexity into compelling narratives for leadership, bet owners, and cross-functional partners.
- Experience mentoring and developing early-career PMs, and can influence without authority or direct reporting lines.
- Familiarity with music, audio, or media technology and understand the unique dynamics of content-rich platforms.
- Experience operating Search as a platform that serves multiple internal teams or content verticals.
- Experience in content integrity, trust & safety, or regulatory compliance in the context of search or discovery systems.
Location: This role is based in London or Stockholm, with flexibility to work remotely.