Principal Product Manager

Content Platform is the foundation of Spotify's experiences, ensuring a vast catalog of music, podcasts, audiobooks, video, and creator data is trusted, safe, and ready to power innovation across Spotify.

As a Principal Product Manager, you will own strategy directly, shaping the long-term direction of the Content Platform, partnering closely with engineering, machine learning, design, and business leaders, and delivering platform capabilities that have company-wide impact.

Responsibilities

• 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.

Requirements

• Thrive in highly autonomous environments and enjoy turning ambiguity into clear product direction.
• Extensive experience leading product strategy and large cross-functional initiatives in complex environments, delivering measurable customer or business impact.
• Make thoughtful product decisions and clearly communicate the reasoning, trade-offs, and outcomes behind them.
• Think in systems and enjoy solving complex platform challenges that span multiple teams and technologies.
• Experience building long-term product strategies where every investment strengthens future platform capabilities.
• Communicate effectively with technical teams, business partners, and senior leaders, building alignment across diverse stakeholders.
• Experience working alongside machine learning teams and understand concepts such as model evaluation, precision and recall, and responsible AI development.
• Build trusted partnerships, collaborate with empathy, and create an environment where teams can do their best work.

Location

• 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.