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Principal Product Manager - Personalization

Spotify· Product – Personalization
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Hybrid (London), Hybrid (Stockholm)PermanentPosted 4w ago

About the role

Lead the Search Personalization strategy within Spotify’s Conversation Product Area, shaping how hundreds of millions of users find and discover content through AI-powered search features and innovative personalization.

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.

Qualifications

  • 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 trade-offs between relevance, latency, cost, and freshness.
  • Experience with AI/ML-powered search features — semantic search, LLM-based reranking, recommendations, or similar — and ability to lead a team through the transition to AI-native search.
  • Track record of managing complex stakeholder landscapes with competing priorities and limited resources, and ability to build frameworks for principled prioritization.
  • Strategic thinking at the portfolio level — synthesize across initiatives, set a coherent vision, and communicate it clearly to executives.
  • Clear, convincing communication translating technical complexity into leadership narratives.
  • Experience mentoring and developing early-career PMs, and ability to influence without authority.
  • Familiarity with music, audio, or media technology and understanding content-rich platforms.
  • Experience operating Search as a platform serving multiple internal teams or content verticals.
  • Experience in content integrity, trust & safety, or regulatory compliance in search or discovery contexts.

Skills

Required:Product strategy and roadmappingAI-native search featuresStakeholder managementLeadership and mentoring
Last updated Oct 21, 2026. Interested? Apply on the company site.

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