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SpotifyPrincipal Product Manager - Format Foundations
Spotify's Format Foundations team sits within Core Experience and works with the business teams behind books, podcasts and music. Its mission centres on pushing forward how…
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Spotify's Format Foundations team sits within Core Experience and works with the business teams behind books, podcasts and music. Its mission centres on pushing forward how users find content, engage with it and stay connected to it on Spotify. This full-time Principal Product Manager role defines the direction for this area and shapes feature portfolios across formats. The listed locations are Stockholm and London. Ownership covers the whole listening and…
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Spotify's Format Foundations team sits within Core Experience and works with the business teams behind books, podcasts and music. Its mission centres on pushing forward how users find content, engage with it and stay connected to it on Spotify. This full-time Principal Product Manager role defines the direction for this area and shapes feature portfolios across formats. The listed locations are Stockholm and London.
Ownership covers the whole listening and reading journey: discovery, evaluation, engagement, library upkeep and retention. The person will turn business strategy into product work that grows each format, and will look for chances in multimodal work, such as blending listening with reading. The role owns several multi-team initiatives from start to finish, works alongside engineering, design and data colleagues on delivery, and uses experiments and user insight to guide decisions.
The posting asks for a senior product leader with more than ten years of product management experience, including large-scale consumer media products and mobile apps. It also values someone who can influence senior stakeholders, coach other product managers and use AI tools actively in product work. No salary or benefits are stated in the posting.
Responsibilities
- Establish direction and product vision for books, podcasts and music
- Define the user experience across discovery, evaluation, engagement, library management and retention
- Partner with business leaders to turn business strategy into product growth
- Push innovation across formats, such as tools that link listening with reading, and build reusable capabilities
- Own several multi-team initiatives from start to finish, including scope and alignment
- Use data, experiments and user research to guide decisions and improve the experience
- Get leaders in Core Experience, business units and Personalization pulling in one direction
- Coach other PMs and lift the bar on how product work is done
Requirements
- More than ten years of product management experience
- Proven leadership of consumer media products that operate at scale, ideally inside large technology firms
- Strong grasp of the consumer media market: rivals, creator and publisher networks, and audience habits
- Background in mobile product work across Apple and Google platforms, including rich interface design
- Ability to design systems and experiences that help teams move faster
- Skill at weighing UX quality, engineering limits and commercial impact
- Comfort working through uncertainty and creating shared understanding across teams and departments
- Track record of persuading executives and partners in different departments
- Active use of AI tools throughout product work, from research to prototyping
Frequently Asked Questions
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Where is this role located?
The posting names Stockholm and London as the locations, with some in-person meetings and flexibility to work from home.
How much experience is required?
The posting asks for more than ten years of product management experience, including leading consumer media products at scale.
What is the scope of the role?
The Principal Product Manager sets product vision for books, podcasts and music, shapes feature portfolios across formats, and leads cross-functional initiatives.
Does the posting list a salary?
No salary or compensation details are given in the posting.
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